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☆ Google rolls out its most powerful AI models as competition from OpenAI heats up
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

At Google I/O on Tuesday, the company announced Gemini 1.5 Flash, the newest addition to the Gemini model series. OpenAI on Monday launched a new AI model and desktop version of ChatGPT, along with a new user interface. Gemini 1.5 Pro will soon be able to handle an hour of video content, or codebases with more than 30,000 lines, Hsiao said. Gemini 1.5 Pro will initially be available for testing in Workspace Labs. Gemini 1.5 Flash will be available for testing and in Vertex AI, which is Google's machine learning platform that lets developers train and deploy AI applications.

Persons: Demis Hassabis, Hsiao, Sundar Pichai, Gemini Organizations: Google, Gemini, Monday

☆ OpenAI gave Jensen Huang a shout-out at the GPT-4o launch in a nod to Nivdia's huge influence on AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati thanked Nvidia boss Jensen Huang as the company revealed its latest AI model. It's a sign of just how important Nvidia is to the AI arms race. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementOpenAI unveiled its latest model Monday — and the company gave a shoutout to AI's kingmaker. OpenAI CTO Mira Murati thanked Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, for providing the microchips that allowed the AI startup to demo its brand-new GPT-4o model.

Persons: Mira Murati, Jensen Huang, —, OpenAI, Jensen Organizations: Nvidia, Tech, Service, Business

☆ ChatGPT just made AI more human, and it should make its rivals nervous
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The AI company basically planted a flag in the sand emblazoned with two words aimed at its Big Tech rivals: your move. The newest version of the AI chatbot, powered by OpenAI's new flagship AI model GPT-4o, can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time. AdvertisementAll the while, the voice assistant maintained a lighthearted and cheerful tone. In another instance, ChatGPT said the researcher was making it blush when he said he was talking about how "useful and amazing" ChatGPT was. Meanwhile, Amazon had plans to release an "Alexa Plus" paid version of the voice assistant that's powered by generative AI, Business Insider's Eugene Kim first reported.

Persons: —, Sam Altman, Mira Murati, Scarlett Johansson, Spike, Mark, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Alexa, Apple's Siri, Siri, There's, Insider's Eugene Kim Organizations: Service, Big Tech, Business, Warner Bros, Google, Apple, Amazon Locations: ChatGPT

☆ OpenAI launches new AI model and desktop version of ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

OpenAI on Monday launched a new AI model and desktop version of ChatGPT, along with a new user interface. The update brings GPT-4 to everyone, including OpenAI's free users, CTO Mira Murati said in a livestreamed event. She added that the new model, GPT-4o, is "much faster," with improved capabilities in text, video and audio. For OpenAI, it's one of the company's biggest announcements since its August launch of ChatGPT Enterprise, the AI chatbot's business tier. OpenAI says that more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies are using the platform.

Persons: OpenAI, Mira Murati, Murati, Brad Lightcap, Anthropic Organizations: Monday, ChatGPT Enterprise, CNBC, Microsoft, Google, Fortune Locations: GPT

☆ Apple's software chiefs decided they needed to upgrade Siri after spending weeks testing out ChatGPT themselves
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Apple executives knew they needed to upgrade Siri after they started using ChatGPT. The company's software chiefs spent weeks using the OpenAI chatbot before making the decision. AdvertisementApple executives realized their digital assistant Siri badly needed an upgrade after they began testing OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT. Unlike most tech giants, Apple has remained relatively coy about how it intends to compete in the field of AI. The Sam Altman-led AI company has long been on Apple's radar, with Cook admitting in an interview with Good Morning America last year that he, too, uses ChatGPT.

Persons: Siri, —, Craig Federighi, John Giannandrea, Giannandrea, Tim Cook ., Apple didn't, Cook, hasn't, Sam Altman Organizations: Apple, Developers, Service, New York Times, BI, Developers Conference, coy, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Financial Times, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Street, OpenAI, Bloomberg, Good Morning America Locations: Cupertino

☆ AI may not replace you, but someone who uses it can — here's the No.1 skill you need to stay relevant
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Ernestine Siu | In Ernestinesiu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

55% of leaders say they're concered about having enough talent to fill roles in the year ahead as AI skills become more relevant than ever before, new study finds. 71% [of leaders] say they'd rather hire a less experienced candidate with AI skills than a more experienced candidate without them. As a result, employees around the world are taking matters into their own hands, learning to use AI tools on their own. "You should not be using your company data or any of your own personal data [when using free online AI tools]." Part of upskilling on AI tools is learning how to do so safely and effectively.

Persons: Laurence Liew, they'd, ChatGPT, Liew, Microsoft's Organizations: AI Singapore, Microsoft, Singapore Locations: Singapore

☆ OpenAI gives a shoutout to Nvidia — plus, a new industrial stock joins our watchlist
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER . NO FIDUCIARY OBLIGATION OR DUTY EXISTS, OR IS CREATED, BY VIRTUE OF YOUR RECEIPT OF ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE INVESTING CLUB. Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street.

Persons: Jim Cramer, it's, OpenAI, Mira Murati, Jensen Huang, We're, Jim's, Estee, Jim, Jim Cramer's Organizations: CNBC, Microsoft, Nvidia, Dover Corp, Clean Energy, Sustainability Technologies, Club, Vision, Bloomberg, Apple Vision, U.S, Jim Cramer's Charitable Locations: Illinois, Dover, U.S, China, Estee Lauder

☆ OpenAI's new product could include sarcasm detection, report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI may unveil a new multimodal AI assistant on Monday, The Information reported. This technology could, in theory, help automated customer service agents detect sarcasm. Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . The Information reported that machine learning company OpenAI could unveil a voice assistant with both audio and visual capabilities that could, in theory, detect sarcasm.

Persons: — Organizations: Service

☆ OpenAI's Sam Altman says an international agency should monitor the 'most powerful' AI to ensure 'reasonable safety'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewOpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he's keen on regulating AI with an international agency. President Joe Biden also signed an executive order last year calling for greater transparency from the world's biggest AI models. But Altman argued that an international agency would offer more flexibility than national legislation — and that's important given how quickly AI evolves. In simple terms, Altman thinks AI should be regulated like an airplane.

Persons: —, Sam Altman, he's, Altman, Joe Biden Organizations: Service, Business, Intelligence, Bloomberg Locations: EU, California

☆ OpenAI's Sam Altman has a new idea for a universal basic income
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has long supported the idea of a universal basic income. Many in AI think a universal basic income could help mitigate the impacts of the tech on workers. Altman floated a new kind of basic income last week that he calls "universal basic compute." AdvertisementOpenAI CEO Sam Altman has an interesting new idea to help those struggling financially. He calls it "universal basic compute."

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, — Organizations: Service, Business

☆ Sam Altman teases that OpenAI is announcing 'new stuff' on Monday that 'feels like magic'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Sam Altman teased that OpenAI plans to announce "new stuff" that "feels like magic" on Monday. AdvertisementOpenAI is announcing new updates to ChatGPT and GPT-4 — and according to Sam Altman, they feel "like magic." The OpenAI CEO posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday to tease about the "new stuff" being announced soon. https://t.co/nqftf6lRL1 — Sam Altman (@sama) May 10, 2024OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment ahead of publication. AdvertisementReports have recently been swirling about OpenAI taking aim at Google's search engine with its own web search product in the works.

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI's, —, it's, Altman, we’ve, — Sam Altman, OpenAI, Microsoft's Bing, Ilya Sutskever Organizations: Service, Bloomberg Locations: OpenAI's

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. On Friday, advanced nuclear fission company Oklo, for which Sam Altman serves as chairman, started trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Oklo's business model is based on commercializing nuclear fission, the reaction that fuels all nuclear power plants. "I don't see a way for us to get there without nuclear," Altman told CNBC in 2023. It's not Altman's only foray into nuclear energy or other infrastructure that could power large-scale AI growth.

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Oklo, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jacob DeWitte, hasn't, we've, DeWitte, It's, Helion, OpenAI Organizations: Economic, New York Stock Exchange, AltC, U.S . Air Force, Microsoft, Amazon, CNBC, U.S . Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NRC, DeWitte, Nvidia Locations: Davos, Switzerland, Idaho, OpenAI's San Francisco, U.S, Saudi Aramco, Rain

☆ OpenAI reportedly plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter, raising the stakes in its competition with search king Google. OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter, raising the stakes in its competition with search king Google. Bloomberg and the Information have reported that Microsoft -backed OpenAI is working on a search product to potentially compete with Alphabet's Google and with Perplexity, a well-funded AI search startup. OpenAI's search product is an extension of its flagship ChatGPT product, and enables ChatGPT to pull in direct information from the Web and include citations, according to Bloomberg. ChatGPT is OpenAI's chatbot product that uses the company's cutting-edge AI models to generate human-like responses to text prompts.

Persons: ChatGPT Organizations: Google, Bloomberg, Microsoft

☆ Apple is revamping Siri with generative AI to catch up with chatbot competitors, report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Apple plans to implement generative AI into its virtual assistant Siri, NYT reported. Apple reportedly wants the AI Siri to be able to chat, summarize texts, and do existing tasks better. The report comes amid fears that Apple is lagging behind competitors when it comes to gen AI. AdvertisementThe report comes amid talk that Apple is playing catchup to competitors on AI, as the company hasn't yet made any generative AI announcements. The iPhone company's CEO, Tim Cook, has teased during earning calls that big news about generative AI products is right around the corner.

Persons: Siri, —, Apple, catchup, Tim Cook Organizations: Apple, Service, The New York Times, Times

☆ Alibaba rolls out latest version of its large language model to meet robust AI demand
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Sheila Chiang | In Sheilachiang | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The logo of the Alibaba office building is seen in the Huangpu District in Shanghai, June 16, 2023. Alibaba Cloud said on Thursday it released the latest version of its large language model after more than 90,000 deployments by companies. Alibaba Cloud said the latest version of its Tongyi Qianwen model, Qwen2.5, possesses "remarkable advancements in reasoning, code comprehension, and textual understanding compared to its predecessor Qwen2.0." Large language models power artificial intelligence applications like OpenAI's ChatGPT. The latest Qwen model fares better than OpenAI's GPT-4 model in language and creation capabilities, but fell short in other categories like knowledge, reasoning and math, according to a March analysis by large language model evaluation platform OpenCompass.

Persons: Alibaba Cloud, Zhou, Alibaba, OpenAI's Locations: Huangpu District, Shanghai

☆ ChatGPT's answers might soon be NSFW as OpenAI opens the door to AI porn
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI is considering letting its AI models generate porn. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementOpenAI is exploring allowing its AI models to generate explicit content. In a move first reported by Wired, OpenAI's recently released Model Spec document opens the door for a policy change on adult content. "We're exploring whether we can responsibly provide the ability to generate NSFW content in age-appropriate contexts through the API and ChatGPT," the company said in the Model Spec.

Persons: —, OpenAI's Organizations: Service, Wired, Business

☆ Big Tech is eating as much data as it can to win in AI — but it's not 'winner takes all,' CEO says
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Matt Calkins, CEO and co-founder of Appian, said that though internet giants like Microsoft , Amazon , and Google are spending billions on the tech, ensuring success in AI is "not just about money." "AI is not a place where money makes more money," Calkins told CNBC in an interview at its London bureau on Tuesday. Microsoft has struck a similar deal with Mistral, taking a 15 million euro ($16 million) stake in the French AI firm. Separately, Amazon has invested a whopping $4 billion into U.S. AI firm Anthropic, which is behind the Claude AI system. "The best AI will be the AI you put your data into, not whoever bought the biggest stack," he said.

Persons: Matt Calkins, Appian, Calkins, Sam Altman, Altman, Claude, you've, —, Sundar Pichai Organizations: Microsoft, Google, CNBC, Mistral, Amazon, OpenAI, Anthropic, British Locations: London, OpenAI, Redmond, Washington, French, Anthropic, Europe

☆ No, seriously. Where are the TikTok buyers?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has decided against buying TikTok. That leaves a really tiny list of people who say they want to buy TikTok. AdvertisementWho's going to buy TikTok? [Crickets]Yes, if you Google "potential TikTok buyers" you'll find a bunch of stories — Business Insider has written one, too — speculating about names. They list Mnuchin as well as Shark Tank host Kevin O'Leary, who also likes to go on TV and talk about buying TikTok.

Persons: Eric Schmidt, —, Steve Mnuchin, ByteDance, Kevin O'Leary, Bobby Kotick, OpenAI's Sam Altman, we've, Trump Organizations: Google, Service, Treasury, TV, Street Journal, Activision, Oracle, Walmart, Microsoft, Big Tech, McKinsey, TikTok

☆ 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

☆ OpenAI is reportedly trying to poach Googlers for an AI-powered search team
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Sam Altman's company is trying to poach Googlers for a ChatGPT search engine, per the report. The Verge reported that the company behind ChatGPT has been trying to poach Googlers to work on its team developing a search engine for the chatbot. In February, The Information reported that OpenAI was developing a web search feature that could put the company into more direct competition with Google Search. AdvertisementGoogle's future plans in the AI field include large investments and a generative AI search engine. Big Tech is engaged in an intense battle for top AI talent as rival companies rush to launch similar AI-powered products.

Persons: Sam Altman's, —, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Googlers, Bing, Mark Zuckerberg Organizations: Big Tech, Service, Google, Bloomberg, Business

☆ OpenAI's Brad Lightcap on new content tool, copyright claims and AI outlook
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailOpenAI's Brad Lightcap on new content tool, copyright claims and AI outlookOpenAI COO Brad Lightcap joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss its new content tool, copyright claims, and the future of AI.

Persons: Brad Lightcap

☆ OpenAI destroyed a trove of books used to train AI models. The employees who collected the data are gone.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Lawyers for the Authors Guild said in court filings that the datasets likely contained "more than 100,000 published books" and are central to its allegations that OpenAI used copyrighted materials to train AI models. OpenAI and other companies used data from the internet, including many books, to build these models. The startup has since identified the employees to lawyers for the Authors Guild but has not publicly disclosed their names. The Authors Guild has opposed this, arguing for the public's right to know. Advertisement"The models powering ChatGPT and our API today were not developed using these datasets," OpenAI said in a statement on Tuesday.

Persons: OpenAI, King James Organizations: Service, OpenAI, Business, Tech, Guild

☆ Spanish startups hit Microsoft with complaint over cloud practices
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft was hit with a Spanish startup group's complaint about its cloud practices to the Spanish antitrust regulator on Tuesday, the latest grievance over its fast-growing cloud computing services and which followed a trade group's EU complaint. The Spanish Startup Association, which represents more than 700 startups in Spain, cited a number of allegedly anti-competitive practices by Microsoft in recent years. Microsoft defended its cloud practices. "Microsoft provides choice and flexibility for our customers to switch to another cloud provider at no cost, and our licensing terms enable our customers and other cloud providers to run and offer Microsoft software on every cloud," a spokesperson said. "We will engage with the Spanish Startup Association to learn more about its concerns."

Persons: Carlos Mateo Organizations: Microsoft, Mobile, Amazon, Spanish Startup Association, Operating Systems, Windows, Reuters, Cloud Infrastructure Services, European Commission, Competition, Markets Locations: Barcelona, Spain, Spanish, U.S, Europe

☆ Watch CNBC's full interview with OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch CNBC's full interview with OpenAI COO Brad LightcapCNBC's David Faber sits down exclusively with OpenAI's COO Brad Lightcap from the Milken Institute Global Conference to discuss its latest content tools, competition in the AI space, company structure and more.

Persons: Brad Lightcap CNBC's David Faber, Brad Lightcap Organizations: Milken Institute Global Conference

☆ Founder of Google DeepMind who was poached explains his first month at Microsoft
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Mustafa Suleyman, a founder of Google's DeepMind AI lab, has worked for Microsoft for about a month. Microsoft, Suleyman said, is "a truly AI-first business." Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementMustafa Suleyman, who co-founded Google's DeepMind AI lab and was the chief executive of the startup Inflection AI before Microsoft lured him away in March, is excited about his new gig. 5/5 At Microsoft AI we are up for this.

Persons: Mustafa Suleyman, Google's, Suleyman, —, I've, It's, it's, — Mustafa Suleyman, Satya Nadella, Kevin Scott, Nadella, Suleyman's, he's Organizations: Microsoft, Service, Business

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