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☆ Apple needs its big AI moment
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

That's made Apple's lack of a big generative AI announcement so far particularly noticeable. However, one big sign an announcement may be coming at WWDC was the unveiling of its M4 chip, which Apple described as an "outrageously powerful chip for AI." The CEO spoke of "big opportunities across our products" for generative AI and promised that Apple is "well positioned" to take on the space. "We think investors will take any generative AI announcement positively," Morningstar tech analyst William Kerwin said. We'd expect any new-gen AI announcement to see strong adoption when released."

Persons: —, they've, chatbot, That's, Dan Ives, Apple, Tim Cook, William Kerwin, Morningstar, Gene Munster, OpenAI, Siri, Ives, Deepwater's Munster, Kerwin Organizations: Service, Developers Conference, Microsoft, Google, Business, Wedbush Securities, Apple, iPad, Morningstar, Deepwater Asset Management, Bloomberg Locations: Cupertino , California, WWDC

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves before the bell: NVDA, LYV, SNOW
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Snowflake posted $829 million in revenue, while analysts polled by LSEG had called for $786 million. Adjusted earnings for the period came in at 14 cents a share, however, missing the consensus estimate by 4 cents. Beauty — The cosmetics maker added 3.4% after easily surpassing consensus forecasts from analysts surveyed by FactSet for the fiscal fourth quarter. posted 53 cents in earnings per share, excluding items, on $321.1 million in revenue, while analysts penciled in just 33 cents on $292.6 million in revenue. On top of that, LiveRamp offered firm revenue guidance for both the current quarter and full year.

Persons: Snowflake, LSEG, NetEase, FactSet, e.l.f, LiveRamp, Cytokinetics, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Ed Bred, Lori Koch, Alibaba, GoodRX, —, Jesse Pound, Pia Singh, Yun Li, Tanaya Macheel, Sarah Min, Michelle Fox Organizations: Nvidia, Micro, Taiwan Semiconductor, Bloomberg, Department of Justice, of, News, Corp, JPMorgan, DuPont de Nemours, DuPont, Bloomberg News, Bank of America, RBC, Hasbro —, Hasbro Locations: Southern, of New York, —

☆ Meta is considering new paid deals with media publishers for AI training data
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Meta may need such access to make its generative AI tools, like Meta AI, more effective for users and more competitive in the increasingly crowded market of generative AI search tools and chatbots, the people said. User posts and comments on Facebook or Instagram are not necessarily the type of high-quality training data that generative AI chatbots and search tools need to generate quality outputs. Previously, Zuckerberg said he did not expect the generative AI boom. The US Copyright Office is considering new rules to cover generative AI. Major rival tech companies now fiercely competing in generative AI have already entered into deals with news publishers and media outlets for more access to content to be used as model training data.

Persons: Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Dotdash Meredith, Axel Springer, OpenAI, Kali Hays Organizations: Service, Meta, Facebook, Business, News, Google, US, News Corp, Financial, Associated Press, BI, Politico, Microsoft, The New York Times, Times Locations: Europe, khays@businessinsider.com

☆ News Corp. and OpenAI strike 'multi-year global partnership' deal to use journalistic content to improve ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

on Wednesday announced a "multi-year global partnership" that will allow OpenAI to access current and archived articles from News Corp.'s outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Barron's, The New York Post and more. As part of the deal, OpenAI will be able to display content from News Corp.-owned outlets within its ChatGPT chatbot, in response to user questions. The news follows Reddit's announcement on Thursday that it will partner with OpenAI, allowing the ChatGPT maker to train its AI models on Reddit content. As part of that deal, OpenAI will gain access to Reddit's Data application programming interface, or API, "which provides real-time, structured, and unique content from Reddit," according to a release. Google announced a similar partnership with Reddit in February, allowing the company to train its AI models, such as Gemini, on Reddit content via access to the platform's API.

Persons: Sam Altman, Robert Thomson, OpenAI, Reddit, Mira Murati, Murati Organizations: Economic, News Corp, Wednesday, Street, The New York Post, News, Google, Reddit Locations: Davos, Switzerland, OpenAI, The, OpenAI's

☆ Microsoft announces new PCs with AI chips from Qualcomm
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Copilot+ PCs with AMD and Intel chips will follow, Microsoft said during a press keynote address on its campus in Redmond, Washington. AI models will be able to generate images based on written descriptions as well as drawings. Microsoft is banking on Qualcomm's energy-efficient Arm -based chips that can handle AI models to defend its Windows franchise. The new PCs can run some AI models locally without an internet connection. Microsoft has had little success in getting people to adopt Arm-based Windows computers, which haven't always performed as well as PCs running Intel or AMD chips.

Persons: Satya Nadella, Snapdragon, haven't, Morgan Stanley Organizations: Microsoft Corp, Microsoft, Windows, Qualcomm, Lenovo, Dell, HP, Asus, Acer, Samsung, AMD, Intel, Apple Locations: Jakarta, Indonesia, Redmond , Washington

☆ Opinion | Loneliness Is a Problem That A.I. Won’t Solve
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

One day it will be better than a real [girlfriend]. One day, the real one will be the inferior choice.” The article goes on to breathlessly outline use cases for “A.I. companions,” suggesting that some future iteration of chatbots could stand in for mental health professionals, relationship coaches or chatty co-workers. This week, OpenAI released an update to its ChatGPT chatbot, an indication that the inhuman future foretold by the Andreessen Horowitz story is fast approaching. While some observers, including the Times Opinion contributing writer Julia Angwin, who called ChatGPT’s recent update “rather routine,” weren’t particularly impressed, there’s been plenty of hype about the potential for humanlike chatbots to ameliorate emotional challenges, particularly loneliness and social isolation.

Persons: Andreessen Horowitz, A.I, OpenAI, Horowitz, ”, Scarlett Johansson, Julia Angwin, weren’t, there’s Organizations: The Washington Post, omni

Behind a big shake-upA day after OpenAI announced major updates to its ChatGPT chatbot, the company said its chief scientist and co-founder was leaving. There were signs that Ilya Sutskever would quit, six months after he helped lead the rebellion that briefly ousted Sam Altman as OpenAI’s C.E.O. But it also raises questions about the future of a leading developer of generative A.I. “OpenAI would not exist without him and certainly was shaped by him,” Altman told The Times about Sutskever. But Sutskever’s presence at OpenAI may have become untenable.

Persons: OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s, “ OpenAI, ” Altman, Altman, Elon Musk, Sutskever Organizations: Times

☆ OpenAI Unveils New ChatGPT That Listens, Looks and Talks
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Cade Metz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

As Apple and Google transform their voice assistants into chatbots, OpenAI is transforming its chatbot into a voice assistant. On Monday, the San Francisco artificial intelligence start-up unveiled a new version of its ChatGPT chatbot that can receive and respond to voice commands, images and videos. system called GPT-4o — juggles audio, images and video significantly faster than previous version of the technology. The app will be available starting on Monday, free of charge, for both smartphones and desktop computers. “We are looking at the future of the interaction between ourselves and machines,” said Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer.

Persons: ”, Mira Murati Organizations: Apple, Google Locations: San Francisco

☆ Generative AI is speeding up human-like robot development. What that means for jobs
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

BEIJING — ChatGPT-like artificial intelligence is speeding up research and bringing humanoid robots closer to reality in China, home to many of the world's factories. What's changed with the emergence of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot is the ability of AI to better understand and generate content in a human-like way. While the U.S.-based tech is not officially available in China, local companies such as Baidu have released similar chatbots and AI models. In robotics, the development of generative AI can help machines with understanding and perceiving their environment, said Li Zhang, chief operating officer of Shenzhen-based LimX Dynamics. "It has accelerated our entire research and development cycle," he said.

Persons: What's, Li Zhang, Li Organizations: BEIJING, Baidu, Dynamics, CNBC Locations: China, U.S, Shenzhen

☆ Eight newspaper publishers sue Microsoft and OpenAI over copyright infringement
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Eight U.S. newspaper publishers filed suit against Microsoft and OpenAI in a New York federal court on Tuesday, claiming the technology companies reuse their articles without permission in generative artificial intelligence products and incorrectly attribute inaccurate information to them. The group of eight newspaper publishers takes issue with ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot assistant — available in the Windows operating system, the Bing search engine, and other products the software maker produces. The legal challenge comes four months after The New York Times sued OpenAI over copyright infringement in the ChatGPT chatbot that the startup released in late 2022. The New York Times case also touched on the matter of OpenAI models regurgitating information from its articles. Correction: This article has been updated to reflect the correct day the lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI was filed.

Persons: Sam Altman, Microsoft's, OpenAI, Axel Springer Organizations: Economic, U.S, Microsoft, Bing, Southern, of, New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Sun Sentinel, The Mercury, The Denver Post, Orange County Register, Pioneer Press of Minnesota, CNBC, New York Times, OpenAI's, Financial, Google Locations: Davos, Switzerland, New York, U.S, of New York, Florida, California, Orange

☆ Microsoft says cloud AI demand is exceeding supply even after 79% surge in capital spending
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

In its earnings report on Thursday, Microsoft said capital expenditures jumped 79% from a year earlier to $14 billion. "We do have demand that exceeds our supply by a bit," Microsoft CFO Amy Hood told analysts on the company's earnings call. During the fiscal third quarter, revenue in Microsoft's Azure cloud rose 31%, with 7 percentage points from AI. Microsoft intends "to scale to meet the growing demand signal for our cloud and AI products," she said. WATCH: Microsoft's capex increase for AI infrastructure is not a surprise, says Deepwater's Gene Munster

Persons: Amy Hood, Hood, Deepwater's Gene Munster Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI, Nvidia, Amazon Web Services Locations: Bellevue , Washington

☆ Microsoft Makes a New Push Into Smaller A.I. Systems
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Karen Weise | Cade Metz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

systems, the tech industry’s mantra has been bigger is better, no matter the price tag. Now tech companies are starting to embrace smaller A.I. On Tuesday, Microsoft introduced three smaller A.I. The smallest Phi-3 model can fit on a smartphone, so it can be used even if it’s not connected to the internet. And it can run on the kinds of chips that power regular computers, rather than more expensive processors made by Nvidia.

Organizations: Microsoft, Phi, Nvidia

☆ Tech's earnings bonanza this week shines spotlight on growing troubles at Tesla, Google
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesAs tech's behemoths get set to report earnings this week, they do so facing a mountain of drama. Tesla kicks off tech earnings season after the close of trading on Tuesday, with shares of the electric vehicle maker trading at their lowest since January 2023. When it comes to AI, Meta debuted its assistant — Meta AI — on WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger last week. Loren Elliott | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOn a busy Thursday for tech earnings, Alphabet is likely to capture the most attention. On Thursday, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced a consolidation of the company's AI teams, including responsible AI and related research teams, under the Google DeepMind umbrella.

Persons: Sundar Pichai, Justin Sullivan, tech's behemoths, Tesla, Microsoft's, Lip, CNBC's, we've, Brandon Bell, Drew Baglino, Rohan Patel, Musk, John Murphy, Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, Wall, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Joe Biden, Republican Donald Trump, Loren Elliott, Ruth Porat, Thomas Kurian's, livestreamed, Pichai, that's, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Altman, OpenAI, chatbot, MSFT Organizations: Inc, Government, Society, Google, Big Tech, Nvidia, BakerAvenue Wealth Management, Tech, Meta, Microsoft, Getty, Elon Musk's EV, Bank of America, Reality Labs, Facebook, Republican, Bloomberg, CNBC, Google Cloud, Union, Apple, Guggenheim Locations: Stanford , California, Austin , Texas, New York, Sunnyvale , California, Sunnyvale, Seattle, San Francisco , California, OpenAI, Mistral, U.S

☆ OpenAI opens its first Asia office in Japan as a 'first step' in its commitment to the region
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Sumathi Bala | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

OpenAI has opened its first Asian office in Tokyo, Japan as the ChatGPT developer aims to expand its global presence. As part of the move, the company has appointed Tadao Nagasaki as the new president of OpenAI Japan, to head commercial and market engagement efforts. Altman met with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida last year and reportedly mentioned he was looking into opening a new office in Japan. The company is backed by Microsoft and has a private market valuation that's reportedly approaching $100 billion. This is the "single largest investment in its 46-year history in Japan, also the site of its first international office," Microsoft said.

Persons: OpenAI, Sam Altman, Tadao, Altman, Fumio Kishida Organizations: Toyota, Microsoft Locations: Tokyo, Japan, Tadao Nagasaki, OpenAI Japan

On a recent afternoon, I held a bagel in front of me and said: “Look and tell me if this is healthy.”A monotone voice responded that the bagel was unhealthy because it was high in carbohydrates, which could contribute to weight gain. I wasn’t talking to a tech bro obsessed with the ketogenic diet. This was the Ai Pin, a $700 tiny computer featuring a virtual assistant pulling data from OpenAI (the research firm behind the ChatGPT chatbot), Google, Microsoft and others to answer questions and perform tasks. Instead of a screen, the pin shines a green laser on your hand to show text. The device includes a camera, speaker and cellular connection.

Organizations: Google, Microsoft Locations: OpenAI

The artificial intelligence lab had exhausted every reservoir of reputable English-language text on the internet as it developed its latest A.I. It could transcribe the audio from YouTube videos, yielding new conversational text that would make an A.I. Ultimately, an OpenAI team transcribed more than one million hours of YouTube videos, the people said. The texts were then fed into a system called GPT-4, which was widely considered one of the world’s most powerful A.I. models and was the basis of the latest version of the ChatGPT chatbot.

Persons: OpenAI, Greg Brockman Organizations: YouTube, Google

☆ OpenAI denies Elon Musk lawsuit claim that there ever was founding agreement
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI has challenged a foundational claim Tesla CEO Elon Musk made in the lawsuit he filed against the startup earlier this month. "There is no Founding Agreement, or any agreement at all with Musk, as the complaint itself makes clear," OpenAI said in a document on file with California's superior court for San Francisco County. "The Founding Agreement is instead a fiction Musk has conjured to lay unearned claim to the fruits of an enterprise he initially supported, then abandoned, then watched succeed without him." Musk quoted OpenAI's 2015 certificate of incorporation with the Delaware secretary of state, asserting that it "memorialized" the founding agreement. "Seeing the remarkable technological advances OpenAI has achieved, Musk now wants that success for himself," OpenAI said in its filing.

Persons: Elon Musk, Giorgia Meloni's, OpenAI, Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Brockman, Altman, Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's ChatGPT Organizations: Tesla Inc, New York Times, San, Microsoft Locations: Rome, Italy, San Francisco County, Delaware

☆ Facebook is building a giant AI model to power all video recommendations, exec says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Meta's hefty investment in artificial intelligence includes development of an AI system designed to power Facebook's entire video recommendation engine across all its platforms, a company executive said Wednesday. Tom Alison, the head of Facebook, said part of Meta's "technology roadmap that goes to 2026" involves developing an AI-recommendation model that can power both the company's TikTok-like Reels short video service and more traditional, longer videos. To date, Meta has typically used a separate model for each of its products, like Reels, Groups and the core Facebook Feed, Alison said onstage at Morgan Stanley's tech conference in San Francisco. As part of Meta's ambitious foray into AI, the company has been spending billions of dollars on Nvidia graphics processing units, or GPUs. They've become the primary chips used by AI researchers for training the types of large language models (LLMs) used to power OpenAI's popular ChatGPT chatbot and other generative AI models.

Persons: Tom Alison, Alison, Morgan Stanley's, They've, Meta Organizations: Facebook, Meta Locations: San Francisco, LLMs

Microsoft is accusing The New York Times of "unsubstantiated" claims in the publisher's lawsuit filed in December against OpenAI, a case that could have major implications for the future of generative artificial intelligence. In a motion to dismiss part of the suit on Monday, Microsoft said the Times presented a false narrative of "doomsday futurology" in which OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot will decimate the news business. "In this case, The New York Times uses its might and its megaphone to challenge the latest profound technological advance: the Large Language Model," attorneys for Microsoft wrote. In its lawsuit, the Times accused OpenAI and Microsoft of copyright infringement and abusing the newspaper's intellectual property in training LLMs. A New York Times spokesperson didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

Persons: Microsoft Corporation Satya Nadella, OpenAI, didn't Organizations: Microsoft Corporation, Economic, Microsoft, New York Times, OpenAI, Times, The New York Times Locations: Davos, Switzerland, OpenAI

“We believe the claims in this suit may stem from Elon’s regrets about not being involved with the company today,” wrote OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon in an internal memo on Friday that was viewed by CNBC. The next year, Musk gave nearly $20 million to OpenAI, which the attorneys reiterated was more than other backers. "We did not think either approach was right for the mission," Kwon wrote. Regarding OpenAI's transformation from an "open source foundation" to a multibillion-dollar for-profit company, Musk said, "I don't know, is this legal?" — CNBC's Lora Kolodny and Hayden Field contributed to this reportWATCH: Elon Musk lawsuit against OpenAI and Altman began a year ago

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, ”, Jason Kwon, Sam Altman, OpenAI, Altman, Musk, Greg Brockman, Kwon, they've, Andrej Karpathy, Karpathy, didn't, — CNBC's Lora Kolodny, Hayden Field, Elon Organizations: CNBC, Elon, Microsoft, Tesla, The New York Times, OpenAI Locations: OpenAI

☆ Microsoft introduces Copilot AI chatbot for finance workers in Excel and Outlook
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft on Thursday announced that it will release a Copilot chatbot that can perform key tasks for people working in finance. The software company will first offer the tool in public preview. The Copilot for finance will initially run a variance analysis, reconcile data in Excel and speed up the collections process in Outlook. Additional features will come to the finance Copilot later this year, Lamanna said. The Japanese advertising agency Dentsu will use the Copilot for finance tasks, Lamanna said.

Persons: Charles Lamanna, Lamanna, it's, Cory Hrncirik, Hrncirik Organizations: Microsoft, CNBC, Wednesday, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics Locations: San Francisco

☆ AI startup Glean lures Citigroup as investor at $2.2 billion valuation after revenue quadruples
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Arvind Jain, co-founder and CEO of Glean, makes a selfie with employees of the startup, which is based in Palo Alto, Calif. Artificial intelligence startup Glean attracted tech companies Databricks and Workday into its latest investment round. Glean, whose software sifts through corporate repositories to provide quick answers to workers' questions, said Tuesday that it's raised $200 million at a $2.2 billion valuation. Glean's annualized revenue at the end of January was $39 million, up from $10 million a year earlier. While Glean initially targeted the tech industry, it's now looking to expand in financial services, retail, manufacturing and other sectors, Jain said.

Persons: Arvind Jain, it's, Kleiner Perkins, Arvind Purushotham, OpenAI, Jain, Glean, Purushotham, Citi hasn't, Cathy Gao Organizations: Wall, Banking, Citigroup, Lightspeed, Sequoia, Citi Ventures, CNBC, Microsoft, Google, Sony Electronics, Citigroup's, Citi, Nvidia, Sapphire Locations: Palo Alto, Calif, LLMs, OpenAI, Glean

☆ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stands to net millions as Reddit goes public
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will be in a position to make millions after Reddit goes public, thanks to a series of bets on the online discussion board company that go back to 2014. Altman will hold 9.2% of voting power after Reddit's initial public offering, according to information in the company's prospectus. In 2014 Altman led Reddit's $50 million Series B funding round, after using the service every day for nine years, he wrote in a blog post. In the first half of 2021, Reddit was raising a Series E round, and Altman invested $50 million. He went on to say that investors in the Series B round would give 10% of shares to Reddit users.

Persons: Sam Altman, Reddit, Altman, OpenAI, Reddit's, It's, Steve Huffman, that's, FirstMark's Organizations: Microsoft, New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, Silicon

☆ Nvidia Says Growth Will Continue as A.I. Hits ‘Tipping Point’
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Don Clark | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Nvidia, the kingpin of chips powering artificial intelligence, on Wednesday released quarterly financial results that reinforced how the company has become one of the biggest winners of the artificial intelligence boom, and it said demand for its products would fuel continued sales growth. Nvidia has become known as one of the “Magnificent Seven” tech stocks, which along with others like Amazon, Apple and Microsoft have helped power the stock market. Last week, the company briefly eclipsed the market values of Amazon and Alphabet before receding to the fifth-most-valuable tech company. Its stock market gains are largely a result of repeatedly exceeding analysts’ expectations for growth, a feat that is becoming more difficult as they keep raising their predictions. Revenue was well above the $20 billion the company predicted in November and above Wall Street estimates of $20.4 billion.

Organizations: Nvidia, Wednesday, Apple, Microsoft, Revenue

☆ OpenAI valued at $80 billion following deal that allows staff to cash out their shares, report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

OpenAI has been valued at $80 billion or more following a new deal, The New York Times reported. The deal allows staff to cash out their shares in the company, per the report. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementThe artificial intelligence (AI) firm OpenAI has completed a deal that valued the business at $80 billion or more, The New York Times reported on Friday, citing three unnamed people with knowledge of the deal. The deal allows OpenAI employees to cash out their shares in the company, the report added.

Persons: OpenAI, —, Andreessen Horowitz, Sam Altman, Sora Organizations: New York Times, Service, Sequoia Capital, K2 Global, Microsoft Locations: San Francisco, Tokyo

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