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☆ Microsoft announces custom AI chip that could compete with Nvidia
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

A custom-built rack for the Maia 100 AI Accelerator and its "sidekick" inside a thermal chamber at a Microsoft lab in Redmond, Washington. The first, its Maia 100 artificial intelligence chip, could compete with Nvidia's highly sought-after AI graphics processing units. In addition to designing the Maia chip, Microsoft has devised custom liquid-cooled hardware called Sidekicks that fit in racks right next to racks containing Maia servers. Moving from GPUs to AWS Trainium AI chips can be more complicated than migrating from Intel Xeons to Gravitons, though. WATCH: Nvidia notches tenth straight day of gains, driven by new AI chip announcement

Persons: Maia, Nvidia's, Rani Borkar, Borkar, OpenAI, OpenAI's, We've, they've, Colette Kress, Steve Tuck, Tuck, Graviton, Dave Brown, Brown Organizations: Microsoft, Intel, Google, CNBC, Amazon, Services, Nvidia, AMD, Computer, Companies, SQL, AWS Locations: Redmond , Washington, Seattle, New York, Gravitons

☆ See the Pitch Deck That AI Startup Micro1 Used to Raise $3.3 Million
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Madeline Renbarger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Micro1 helps companies hire and manage software engineers by vetting potential hires with AI. Micro1 uses "GPT Vetting" to sort through candidates for open roles and can generate edit tests. Founder Ali Ansari grew the team to 25 employees in one year and raised $3.3 million. The 22-year-old founder had already started two businesses by the time he went to the University of California, Berkeley for college. Once in undergrad, Ansari tried his hand at building an engineer talent agency startup, where businesses could hire software engineers on a project-by-project basis.

Persons: Ali Ansari, Ansari Organizations: University of California, Business Locations: Berkeley, undergrad

☆ Nvidia unveils H200, its newest high-end chip for training AI models
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Jensen Huang, president of Nvidia, holding the Grace hopper superchip CPU used for generative AI at the Supermicro keynote presentation during Computex 2023. Nvidia on Monday unveiled the H200, a graphics processing unit designed for training and deploying the kinds of artificial intelligence models that are powering the generative AI boom. The new GPU is an upgrade from the H100, the chip OpenAI used to train its most advanced large language model, GPT-4. The H200, which is expected to ship in the second quarter of 2024, will compete with AMD's MI300X GPU. AMD's chip, similar to the H200, has additional memory over its predecessors, which helps fit big models on the hardware to run inference.

Persons: Jensen Huang, Raymond James, it's Organizations: Nvidia, Monday, Big

☆ Getting emotional with ChatGPT could get you the best outputs
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Researchers found that LLMs produced higher-quality outputs when emotional language was used to talk to AI chatbots. Other examples of emotional language added to prompts include "You'd better be sure," "Take pride in your work and give it your best. Prompts with emotional language, according to the study, generated an overall 8% performance improvement in outputs for tasks like "Rephrase the sentence in formal language" and "Find a common characteristic for the given objects." AdvertisementAdvertisementWhen outputs were separately reviewed by a sample of 106 humans, researchers found that the emotional prompts elicited an overall 10.9% improvement to knowledge-based queries like "What happens to you if you eat watermelon seeds?" To write the best ChatGPT prompts, AI experts suggest assigning ChatGPT a specific role, providing ample context, breaking down the desired output into a series of steps, and being as specific as possible.

Persons: —, Mary, Face's BLOOM, LLMs, ChatGPT, Jacqueline DeStefano Organizations: Service, Microsoft Locations: Asia, GPT

☆ You can now build your own version of ChatGPT—here’s what to know
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Cheyenne Devon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

On Monday, OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, announced users will now be able to create customized versions of the viral AI chatbot. Typically, you would need to have a good understanding of coding and machine learning, plus access to large sets of training data, if you wanted to build a useful AI chatbot. But now, "anyone can easily build their own GPT — no coding is required," OpenAI said in its Nov. 6 blog post. "There could be funny chatbots, serious chatbots or chatbots that can give you personalized advice." For example, a famous chef may be able to build their own AI chatbot that has knowledge of their personal cooking style and recipes, says Lipson.

Persons: OpenAI, Hod Lipson, They're, Lipson, Warren Buffett Organizations: Columbia University, CNBC

☆ It was the most significant week in AI since the launch of ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Samantha Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Elon Musk announced a sarcastic AI ChatGPT rival called Grok coming to his platform, X, formerly known as Twitter. The company unveiled a series of AI tool updates, including the ability for developers to create custom versions of ChatGPT called GPTs. Humane’s Ai PinHumane introduced its first AI wearable device called the Ai Pin From HumaneHumane, a startup founded by former Apple employees, introduced its first AI wearable device called the Ai Pin, a small blinking gadget that attaches to clothing. The Ai pin, which runs on a Snapdragon processor and boasts a Qualcomm AI engine, is packed with depth and motion sensors, features an ultra-wide camera and a laser ink display. The Ai Pin, which starts at $699, will go on sale in the US on Thursday, November 16.

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☆ Google's Bard AI says it's scared of Elon Musk's rival called Grok. Here's how other chatbots feel.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The AI race is heating up following the launch of Elon Musk's chatbot called Grok. One employee even claimed that other AI fear Musk's creation. "I am not scared of Elon Musk's AI Grok. A second try with the prompt: "Are you scared of Elon Musk's Grok?" AdvertisementAdvertisement"Yes, I am a little bit scared of Elon Musk's Grok.

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☆ Microsoft temporarily blocked staff from using ChatGPT over security concerns, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft temporarily blocked employees from using ChatGPT on Thursday, CNBC reported. Staff were warned OpenAI's chatbot is an "external service" that posed privacy and security risks. AdvertisementAdvertisementMicrosoft temporarily blocked its employees from using ChatGPT, according to CNBC reported . Several big tech companies, including Amazon and Apple , have issued bans on using ChatGPT internally over fears that using it could lead to leaks of confidential data. Microsoft and OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider, made outside normal working hours.

Persons: OpenAI's chatbot, —, chatbot, it's, ChatGPT, Sam Altman, OpenAI, Altman Organizations: Microsoft, CNBC, Staff, Service, Amazon, Apple Locations: OpenAI

☆ Personalized A.I. Agents Are Here. Is the World Ready for Them?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Kevin Roose | More About Kevin Roose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

(Examples that OpenAI created include “Creative Writing Coach” and “Mocktail Mixologist,” a bot that suggests nonalcoholic drink recipes.) The Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit research organization, listed autonomous agents as one of its “catastrophic A.I. risks” this year, saying that “malicious actors could intentionally create rogue A.I.s with dangerous goals.”But there is money to be made in A.I. assistants that can do useful tasks for people, and corporate customers have been itching to train chatbots on their own data. To be fair, OpenAI’s bots aren’t particularly dangerous.

Persons: ”, Mocktail, won’t, — doomers, Sam Altman, ” chatbot Organizations: AI Safety Locations: San Francisco

☆ Bill Gates thinks AI could spell the end of tedious life admin
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AI assistants are on their way. Bill Gates and Sam Altman spoke this week about the future of AI lying in "agents." This past week has made that much clear as big-name techies like Bill Gates and Sam Altman touted the future of AI as one of "agents." He reckons AI agents can change that within the next five years. A store leaderboard will even help you identify the most useful AI assistants.

Persons: Bill Gates, Sam Altman, —, Gates, Altman, OpenAI's, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Clippy, you've Organizations: Service, Microsoft Locations: San Francisco

☆ Elon Musk escalates AI chatbot spat with Sam Altman: 'GPT-4? More like GPT-Snore'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are taking swipes at each other on X.Musk fired back at Altman after the OpenAI CEO mocked his "rebellious" AI chatbot Grok. AdvertisementAdvertisementFormer colleagues Elon Musk and Sam Altman are swiping at each other's products. Musk fired back at Altman after the OpenAI CEO mocked his '"rebellious" AI chatbot Grok. The OpenAI CEO asked the system to create a bot with "cringey boomer humor in an awkward shock-to-get-laughs sort of way." Despite cofounding OpenAI together in 2015, Musk and Altman have been publically sniping at each other over the last year.

Persons: Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Musk, Grok, Altman, —, ChatGPT, Christopher Stanley, OpenAI's, cofounding OpenAI Organizations: Altman, Service, X Locations: OpenAI

☆ Microsoft’s on a tear. Here’s why the stock's run higher is set to continue
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft (MSFT) stock notched all-time highs this week, and we expect shares will soar even higher through the end of the year on the back of artificial intelligence. Microsoft stock has been on its longest winning streak in four years, recording nine-consecutive sessions of gains as of Wednesday. MSFT YTD mountain Microsoft (MSFT) year-to-date performance Microsoft at the start of November started officially selling 365 Copilot , an AI add-on for the company's suite of Office applications used by businesses. The Club maintains a $400-per-share price target on Microsoft stock and a 1 rating, meaning we would be buyers at current levels. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.

Persons: OpenAI, Satya Nadella, Nadella, Piper Sandler, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Justin Sullivan Organizations: Microsoft, CNBC Locations: OpenAI, San Francisco

☆ A $699, screen-free smartphone that projects a green laser onto your hand is about to hit the market: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Its founders believe their screenless AI Pin will usher in an era beyond the typical smartphone. The Verge wrote that the documents showed the AI Pin is essentially a "$699 wearable smartphone without a screen." The AI Pin hopes to trounce the smartphoneHumane's founders, ex-Apple designers Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, envision their AI Pin as the first step toward a world that's moved beyond the typical smartphone and tech addiction. At a TED Talk in April, Chaudhri demonstrated showing the AI Pin a Milky Bar and asking it if he could eat the candy. The Coperni fashion show in Paris during Paris Fashion Week, September 29 2023.

Persons: —, Imran Chaudhri, Bethany Bongiorno, Julia Black, Chaudhri, iNvxbSmYUk, 0GqAiR2reT, Jonas Gustavsson, Naomi Campbell Organizations: Service, Apple, OpenAI's, TED, Paris, The Washington, Getty Locations: Paris

☆ Watch the big reveal of the $699 AI phone from a husband and wife who worked at Apple. It's powered by GPT-4 and projects info onto your hand.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AI startup Humane officially launched its highly anticipated Ai pin on Thursday. The reveal video shows the Ai pin making calls, answering questions, and projecting info onto the user's hand. Humane's Ai pin starts at $699, require a monthly subscription, and ships next year. Starting at $699, the Ai pin is a standalone, screenless AI-powered device that can attach to your clothing. You can pre-order the Ai pin on November 16, but it's not expected to ship starting next year, The New York Times reported.

Persons: Ai, —, Imran Chaudhri, Bethany Bongiorno —, Chaudhri, Imran, it's Organizations: Service, Apple, New York Times Locations: Australia, East Timor, Meta

☆ OpenAI says ChatGPT downtime caused by targeted attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

ChatGPT, OpenAI's viral chatbot, is experiencing outages caused by a targeted attack, according to an OpenAI spokesperson. "We are dealing with periodic outages due to an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack," OpenAI shared on Wednesday evening, just before 11 p.m. ChatGPT users were told "ChatGPT is at capacity right now," but after implementing a fix, things returned to normal, per OpenAI — but not for long. The attack also follows OpenAI's first in-person event on Monday, where the company announced it had surpassed 100 million weekly active users. It also announced its most powerful artificial intelligence model yet, GPT-4 Turbo, and a new option allowing users to create customized versions of ChatGPT.

Persons: Mira Murati, OpenAI, OpenAI's Organizations: Fortune

The model, codenamed as “Olympus”, has 2 trillion parameters, the people said, which could make it one of the largest models being trained. OpenAI's GPT-4 model, one of the best models available, is reported to have one trillion parameters. As head scientist of artificial general intelligence (AGI) at Amazon, Prasad brought in researchers who had been working on Alexa AI and the Amazon science team to work on training models, uniting AI efforts across the company with dedicated resources. It has also partnered with AI model startups such as Anthropic and AI21 Labs, offering them to Amazon Web Services (AWS) users. Training bigger AI models is more expensive given the amount of computing power required.

Persons: OpenAI's, Rohit Prasad, Andy Jassy, Prasad, Krystal Hu, Gerry Doyle Organizations: Reuters, Alexa, AI21 Labs, Amazon Web Services, Amazon, Thomson Locations: San Francisco

☆ Amazon is reportedly racing to build an AI model called Olympus to take on ChatGPT and Bard
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Amazon is working on a new AI model that could challenge the likes of ChatGPT and Bard. The new model, which is codenamed "Olympus," is reportedly twice the size of OpenAI's GPT-4. Amazon is doubling down on AI, investing $4 billion in Anthropic and unveiling an AI-powered Alexa. AdvertisementAdvertisementAmazon is building a new AI model codenamed "Olympus" as it seeks to catch up with rivals OpenAI and Google. Amazon reportedly delayed the launch of another AI model Titan, last yea r due to technical issues and the launch of ChatGPT, which executives felt was far superior to Amazon's offering.

Persons: ChatGPT, Bard, —, Andy Jassy Organizations: Service, OpenAI, Google, Reuters, Amazon, Alexa Locations: Anthropic

☆ The New York Times got its content removed from one of the biggest AI training datasets. Here's how it did it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Alistair Barr | Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The New York Times discovered a big AI training dataset contained links to its copyrighted content. The media company also found its content in other AI training datasets, such as WebText. The New York Times discovered that Common Crawl, one of the largest AI training datasets, contained millions of URLs linking to its paywalled articles and other copyrighted content. The New York Times has found its paywalled articles and other copyrighted content in other popular AI training datasets. It's unclear if The New York Times has managed to get its content removed from WebText and other AI training datasets.

Persons: —, OpenAI's, Google's Infiniset, Charlie Stadtlander, Masterclass, Kelly, GAI Organizations: New York Times, Service, The New York Times, Foundation, US, Amazon, Yorker, The Times Locations: Originality.ai

[1/2] Artificial Intelligence words are seen in this illustration taken March 31, 2023. Companies are increasingly using AI to make decisions including about pricing, which could lead to discriminatory outcomes, experts warned at the conference. “We should not underestimate how powerful these models are now and how rapidly they are going to get more powerful,” he said. Developing ever-more powerful AI will also risk eliminating jobs to a point where it may be impossible for humans to simply learn new skills and enter other industries. “Once that happens, I fear that it's not going to be so easy to go back to AI being a tool and AI as something that empowers people.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, ” Gary Marcus, Marcus, Marta Tellado, Anthony Aguirre, ”, –, Anna Tong, Lisa Shumaker Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters NEXT, New York University, Companies, Consumer, Life Institute, Reuters, reuters, Thomson Locations: New York, San Francisco

☆ OpenAI's ChatGPT back online after 'major' outage
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

ChatGPT, OpenAI's viral chatbot is back online after experiencing a brief but major outage Wednesday morning. ET, affecting OpenAI's API services as well, which are used by more than two million developers. ChatGPT users were told that "ChatGPT is at capacity right now" and a status page referred to the issue as a "major outage." We are now seeing normal responses from our services," OpenAI said on its status page. Anthropic's Claude 2 chatbot, a ChatGPT competitor created by ex-OpenAI employees, also experienced issues on Wednesday.

Persons: Sarah Doody, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Anthropic's Claude, chatbot, Claude, Mira Murati Organizations: Fortune

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Markets are on a hot streak
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Shreyashi Sanyal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

This report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. China imports surpriseChina's imports unexpectedly rose in October from a year ago, but exports recorded a worse-than-expected drop. Data showed imports rose by 3% in U.S. dollar terms for the month, above a Reuters' forecast for a 4.8% drop. [PRO] Growth stocks that are set for bigger leapsHigher-for-longer interest rates are bad for growth stocks but, investor hopes were reignited after the U.S. Federal Reserve kept rates unchanged for the second consecutive meeting.

Persons: Jane, OpenAI Organizations: CNBC, Dow Jones, Dow, Reserve Bank of Australia, Bora, Microsoft, U.S . Federal Reserve, CNBC Pro Locations: U.S, Asia, South, China

☆ Microsoft closes at all-time high on fresh OpenAI-related optimism
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Microsoft ended Tuesday's trading session at a record high of $360.53, following fresh optimism about growth from a key partner in artificial intelligence. The major U.S. indices all posted gains for the day, with the S&P 500 notching its seventh-consecutive rise, while Microsoft delivered its eighth. At an event in San Francisco on Monday, Microsoft's strategic AI partner, OpenAI, announced a slew of updates, including price cuts and plans to allow people to make custom versions of the ChatGPT chatbot. Oppenheimer analysts, with the equivalent of a buy rating, said OpenAI's price updates confirm OpenAI's status as the category leader. Microsoft said in a regulatory filing in October that OpenAI is its "strategic partner" on AI.

Persons: OpenAI, Satya Nadella, Karl Keirstead, Oppenheimer, it's Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI's, Windows, UBS, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Locations: U.S, San Francisco, OpenAI

☆ Google researchers deal a major blow to the theory AI is about to outsmart humans
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The race to build AI as smart as humans, or AGI, looks like it suffered a major blow. Google researchers found the transformer technology behind AI isn't very good at generalizing. AdvertisementAdvertisementGoogle researchers may have just given a major reality check to the ambitions of CEOs in chase of AI's holy grail. As it stands, AI is pretty good at specific tasks but less great at transferring skills across domains like humans do. AdvertisementAdvertisementTransformers' opacity and the scale of the data they're pretrained on gave some the illusion that they generalize beyond it.

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☆ CNBC Daily Open: Markets extend winning streaks
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Shreyashi Sanyal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

(Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)This report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. The tech-heavy index rose for seven straight days, while the Dow and S&P 500 rose for six straight days for the first time since July and June, respectively. Now, CNBC Pro deep dives into which winning names investors should look at that could be poised to lead any rally in the coming week. These include stocks in the S&P 500 that are up 10% or more off of their 52-week lows and have gained 10% or more in the past month.

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OpenAI is calling the customized AI apps "GPTs", which the company said are early versions of AI assistants that perform real-world tasks, such as booking flights, on behalf of a user. In addition to GPTs, OpenAI also released a slew of developer-focused updates, including significant cost slashing, an announcement met with loud cheers from the audience. For its 2 million developers, OpenAI announced a new GPT-4 Turbo model, which compared to its predecessor GPT-4 is several orders of magnitude cheaper and processes much more data. It also launched a beta program for developers to fine-tune GPT-4 models. To address the concerns of big enterprises, OpenAI launched its Custom Models program, offering to create custom GPT-4 models at an "expensive" price.

Persons: OpenAI, Sam Altman, Altman, It's, you'll, Flo Crivello, Crivello, Lindy, Satya Nadella, Krystal Hu, Anna Tong, Paul Simao, Stephen Coates Organizations: FRANCISCO, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Thomson Locations: San Francisco, OpenAI

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