Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI and top AI researchers worldwide, has departed from OpenAI. Where he goes next is not known, but it's a massive blow for OpenAI to now lose both Ilya and Andrej.
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Cohere Launches Aya: Multilingual AI Model Supporting 101 Languages
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Cohere just introduced Aya, a multilingual AI model that expands capabilities across 101 languages.
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 14 février 2024
Aya was trained on 2.5x more data than prior multilingual models.
The days of universal translation and global access to AI chatbots are inching closer. https://t.co/eIrwdbAySdCohere just introduced Aya, a multilingual AI model that expands capabilities across 101 languages. Aya was trained on 2.5x more data than prior multilingual models. The days of universal translation and global access to AI chatbots are inching closer.
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OpenAI Launches Memory Feature for ChatGPT Users
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OpenAI just launched a new memory feature to select users, enabling ChatGPT to remember key details from prior chats. Users can control what's remembered, with options to delete specifics, wipe memory, or disable the feature.
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Andrej Karpathy Announces Departure from OpenAI
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Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday. First of all nothing "happened" and it’s not a result of any particular event, issue or drama (but please keep the conspiracy theories coming as they are highly entertaining :)). Actually, being at OpenAI over the last ~year has been
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Meta and Vision Pro advance facial capture in VR headsets
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Neither is a fashion statement. But Meta pioneered the idea of recording your face under the headset and displaying your face without headset to your interaction partners in VR, and Vision Pro built an early version of that into the system (it can even show your tongue!).
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OpenAI’s Development Process Under Scrutiny
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There are many questions about OpenAI's development process
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Karpathy Leaves OpenAI: Advocate for AI Education and Simplification
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Interesting to see Karpathy step away from OpenAI. I hope he keeps on teaching how these AI systems work. He is the best I've ever come across for making these complex topics seem simple(r).
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Jonathan Ross joined by Yann LeCun and Jensen Huang
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@JonathanRoss321 will be joined by Yann LeCun and Jensen Huang.
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OpenAI announces 11 winning teams for agentic AI safety research grants
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We have now selected and notified 11 winning teams. They will receive grants ranging between $15K and $100K to conduct research on the impacts of agentic AI systems and approaches for making them safe. Thank you to all the teams that applied. OpenAI (@OpenAI) Our new research white paper identifies seven practices for keeping increasingly agentic AI systems safe and accountable as they become more common and more capable. We are providing research grants for work on a range of open questions. openai.com/research/practice… — https://nitter.net/OpenAI/status/1735390088929202673#m
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For-Profit Companies Optimize for Profit and Growth Goals
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Or, the goal of a for profit company is (ultimately) profit and growth. And they optimized for that goal.