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☆ Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on what's ahead for AI & humanity
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | 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 EmailMicrosoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on what's ahead for AI & humanityAndrew Ross Sorkin speaks with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

Persons: Mustafa Suleyman, Andrew Ross Sorkin Organizations: Microsoft, Aspen Ideas

☆ Exclusive: Health AI startup Anterior raised $20 million from NEA and Sequoia. Here's the pitch deck it used.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Many healthcare startups have targeted administrative tasks on the provider side, like SmarterDx, which just raised a $50 million Series B in June. Wu said NEA chose to invest in Anterior in part because of its focus on health plans. Anterior's $20 million Series A will help the startup accelerate hiring to take on more health plan customers, Mahmoud said. Wu said the firm sees a big opportunity for Anterior to package a range of tools for health plans as AI technologies become more widespread. See the 18-slide pitch deck Anterior used to grab a $20 million Series A.

Persons: —, It's, Mustafa Suleyman, Adrian Aoun, Blake Wu, Abdel Mahmoud, we'd, we've, Mahmoud, Wu, Anterior's Organizations: Service, NEA, Business, Sequoia, Lion, Microsoft, Cohere, Meta, Google, McKinsey & Company, Amazon Locations: Sequoia Arc

☆ Leaked Microsoft org chart reveals the top people running Mustafa Suleyman's new AI organization
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Microsoft in March hired Suleyman, head of startup Inflection AI and cofounder of AI pioneer Deepmind, to be CEO of a newly formed "Microsoft AI" group. Here are top players at Microsoft AI:AdvertisementKarén Simonyan, CVP and chief scientistKarén Simonyan Inflection AI Inflection AISimonyan is one of three Inflection co-founders. Kya Sainsbury-Carter, CVP Microsoft AdvertisingSainsbury-Carter is an 18-year veteran of Microsoft. Qi Zhang, CVP Microsoft AI APRDZhang is based in Beijing and has been at Microsoft for 22 years. Chris Daly, VP strategy and business operationsDaly joined Microsoft AI in May after spending about nine years in investment banking at Robey Warshaw.

Persons: —, Mustafa Suleyman, Suleyman, Karén Simonyan, Karén, Simonyan, Satya Nadella, Rob Cromwell, Cromwell, Gabor Hirschler, Hirschler, Mikhail Parakhin, Jordi Ribas, Bing, Rukmini Iyer, Iyer, Rajesh Sundaram, Sundaram, Ali Akgun, Panos Panay, Sainsbury, Carter, Qi Zhang, Zhang, Mike Davidson, Davidson, Michael Bhaskar, Bhaskar, DeepMind, Chris Daly, Daly, Robey Warshaw Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Business, Bing, Enterprise, Microsoft Edge, Carter, Microsoft Advertising, Pacific Research, Development, Twitter, NBCNews.com, Walt Disney Internet, Microsoft AI Locations: Copilot, Beijing, Asia, Pacific, London

☆ Microsoft hired Mustafa Suleyman's ghostwriter for its new AI org, internal chart shows
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman's ghostwriter joined the company's new AI organization. Microsoft hired Suleyman in March to lead the consumer artificial intelligence group. AdvertisementMicrosoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman's ghostwriter landed a job on staff in the company's new consumer artificial intelligence organization, according to an internal organizational chart. Microsoft in March hired Suleyman, head of startup Inflection AI and cofounder of AI pioneer DeepMind, to be CEO of a newly formed "Microsoft AI" group. The organization is responsible for consumer AI products such as Microsoft's Copilot AI chatbot and the Bing search engine.

Persons: Mustafa Suleyman's, Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar, —, Mustafa Organizations: Microsoft, Service, Business

☆ Here's everything you need to know about Big Tech's AI models and tools but were too afraid to ask
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The in-house AI model called MAI-1 is said to be trained using a public dataset and text from ChatGPT, a source told The Information. AdvertisementThe company has a text-to-image generator called Microsoft Designer, which launched last year after being tested in December 2022. MetaMeta has an AI assistant called Meta AI. NurPhoto/Getty ImagesMeta has an AI assistant called Meta AI, which is run on its open-source LLM, Llama. It also has an AI image generator called Imagine, which launched in December and was trained on public Facebook and Instagram photos.

Persons: —, Microsft, OpenAI, it's, Mustafa Suleyman, Shane Jones, VASA, Satya Nadella, OpenAI OpenAI, Sundar Pichai, OpenAI might've, Scarlett Johansson, OpenAI's chatbot, Sam Altman, Meta Meta Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Business, Microsoft Microsoft, Microsft Microsoft, Federal Trade Commission, MAI, Lumiere Meta, Google Google, Meta, Facebook, Titan, Anadolu Amazon's, Olympus, Web Services, Amazon Locations: ChatGPT, Anthropic

☆ LLMs, GPUs, and hallucinations — what you need to know about AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Aaron Mok | Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Here's a list of the people, companies, and terms you need to know to talk about AI, in alphabetical order. GPU: A computer chip, short for graphic processing unit, that companies use to train and deploy their AI models. Nvidia's GPUs are used by Microsoft and Meta to run their AI models. Multimodal: The ability for AI models to process text, images, and audio to generate an output. As a profession, prompt engineers are experts in fine tuning AI models on the backend to improve outputs.

Persons: —, Sam Altman, Altman, OpenAI's, Dario Amodei, Claude, Demis, Hassabis, Jensen Huang, Satya, Mustafa Suleyman, OpenAI, Elon Musk, Sam Bankman, Peter Thiel, Bard, James Webb, empiricists Organizations: Service, Business, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Microsoft, Bing, Meta, James Webb Space Telescope Locations: OpenAI, Anthropic

☆ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella explains how he views his partnership — and competition — with OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke to Stratechery about its $13 billion partnership with OpenAI. "There's going to be competition," he told the tech and media newsletter. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella believes both forces are at play in its more than $13 billion partnership with OpenAI. "Long-term stability comes from both sides winning on a continuous basis and that's how at least I approach it," Nadella told the media and tech newsletter Stratechery.

Persons: Satya Nadella, Mustafa Suleyman, —, Nadella Organizations: OpenAI, Microsoft, Service, Business

☆ Inflection AI has a new game plan after Mustafa Suleyman defected to Microsoft
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Inflection AI unveiled a new strategy to focus on building empathetic chatbots for businesses. It comes after Mustafa Suleyman resigned as CEO and joined Microsoft with most of the team. The startup's new leadership team told VentureBeat that it's "well funded for 18 months." The startup laid out a rehashed strategy following its partial implosion about two months after CEO Mustafa Suleyman decamped to Microsoft along with most of its 70 staff. Inflection's executive team told VentureBeat that its new plan of action is focusing on business-centric "empathetic" chatbots to help stand out in the highly competitive AI sphere.

Persons: Mustafa Suleyman, VentureBeat, —, Mustafa Suleyman decamped Organizations: Microsoft, Service, Business

☆ OpenAI wants you to think GPT-4o is your new best friend
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewWhether you like it or not, Sam Altman just let you know you're getting an AI best pal. Advertisement"I see you're rocking an OpenAI hoodie, nice choice," ChatGPT told a user in one demo. the AI bot said, before delivering a story about a robot named Bite in dramatic, singing, and robotic voices, depending on the request from the user. This is where AI labs are leading us: to a near future of AI as coworker, friend, and ubiquitous presence," Mollick wrote on Substack. AdvertisementIt's something its rivals will pay close attention to, with the possibility of a new battle emerging between companies trying to release the most human, friendly AI bot they can.

Persons: —, Sam Altman, Mira Murati, Altman, Scarlett Johansson, Spike Jonze's, ChatGPT, Barrett —, he'd, Joaquin Phoenix's, Samantha, Ethan Mollick, Mollick, OpenAI, Mustafa Suleyman, Siri Organizations: Service, Business, Wharton University, Microsoft, Apple

☆ Sports gambling is taking a cue from Wall Street, and it could be a problem for sportsbooks
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's big story, we're looking at how a sports bettor trying to hedge a $1.7 million payout shows the gambling world is taking a page out of Wall Street's book . The big storySports gambling goes Wall StreetiStock; Rebecca Zisser/BIHow would you like to turn $100 into $1.7 million in a little over a year? Thanks to a secondary market for gambling tickets, Shelton could sell his ticket to another bettor. And not unlike Wall Street's feelings about retail traders, Shelton is the type of gambler sportsbooks love. Unlike mom-and-pop gamblers who often bet on a whim, so-called sharps' systematic approach to gambling can pose a problem for sportsbooks.

Persons: —, Rebecca Zisser, Wayne Shelton, Shelton, Matthew Fox, Anthony Edwards, Joshua Gateley, sportsbooks, Shelton's longshot, Goldman Sachs, Sam Bankman, Fried, Puck, SBF, Justin Sullivan, Getty Sundar Pichai, Pichai, Jack Dorsey, he'd, Mike Solana, Dorsey, Bluesky, Demis, Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman, they'd, Dan DeFrancesco, Jordan Parker Erb, Hallam Bullock, George Glover Organizations: Business, Service, Sports, MLB, NFL, NBA, Oklahoma City Thunder, Thunder, Dallas Mavericks, Western Conference, ESPN, Boston Celtics, Minnesota Timberwolves, Getty, Detention, MDC, Bloomberg, Bay Area, YouTube, Spotify, Apple, Warner Brothers, Justice League, Big, Honda Locations: China, Russia, Brooklyn's, Young, New York City, New York, Bay, London

☆ The frenemies running Microsoft and Google's AI ops have some serious history
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Less than four years later, Google acquired it for more than $500 million. AdvertisementWith Hassabis at the helm, the Google DeepMind is at the forefront of Google's AI push. Speaking about Suleyman, Hassabis told the newspaper: "Most of what he has learned about AI comes from working with me over all these years." AdvertisementLondon callingOne of Suleyman's first moves as Microsoft's newly installed AI chief was to launch an AI hub in London, which is also home to Google DeepMind. The move could prove savvy for Microsoft as major tech companies eye up Google's high-quality pool of AI talent.

Persons: —, Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman, Suleyman, Hassabis, Shane Legg, Eric Schmidt, Schmidt, he's, he'd, Suleyman didn't Organizations: Service, University of Cambridge, Business, Google, Big, The New York Times, Fast Company, Microsoft, Greylock Partners, Hassabis Locations: London, DeepMind

☆ An OpenAI rival says its new AI model is not only cheaper to run than GPT-4, but it's also more useful
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewOpenAI rival Cohere has unveiled an updated AI model it says is more useful and cheaper to run than GPT-4. The AI startup says it is rolling out the ability to fine-tune its Command R AI model, allowing it to outperform larger models like GPT-4 in some use cases while costing up to fifteen times less to operate. Similarly, when analyzing financial data Command R was 6.2% more accurate than GPT-4 and 5.3% more accurate than Claude. AdvertisementCohere said that as Command R, which initially launched in March, is significantly smaller than the likes of GPT-4, it costs much less to run. Related storiesFine-tuning on the Command R model is available on Cohere's platform from Thursday, with availability on other platforms coming in the near future.

Persons: —, Cohere, Nick Frosst, Claude Opus, Claude, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Altman, they're, Frosst, It's, Emad Mostaque, Mustafa Suleyman, We're Organizations: Service, Business, Amazon, GPT, Command, Meta, Intelligence, Stanford University, Cohere, Big Tech, Stability, Microsoft Locations: GPT, Toronto

☆ 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

☆ Microsoft's in-house AI model, reportedly called MAI-1, is a chance for CEO Satya Nadella to prove he doesn't need OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft is building its own AI model dubbed MAI-1, The Information reported. It's a sign Microsoft is ready to depend less on the ChatGPT maker as the AI wars heat up. AdvertisementMicrosoft is reportedly working on its own AI model separately from OpenAI — a chance for CEO Satya Nadella to prove his company doesn't need the ChatGPT maker to get ahead in the AI wars. Microsoft is working on building an in-house large language model model it calls MAI-1, The Information reported earlier this week. That's on top of the smaller, less advanced models Microsoft is developing for smartphone apps, reflecting the tech titan's multi-pronged approach to developing advanced AI.

Persons: Mustafa Suleyman, It's, —, Satya Nadella, Nadella, Google's DeepMind, Kevin Scott, Scott, it's, Microsoft didn't Organizations: Microsoft, Service, MAI, Meta, Business, Microsoft's Locations: ChatGPT, Seattle

☆ Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Cade Metz | Nico Grant | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Today, they are two of the most powerful executives in the tech industry’s race to build artificial intelligence. Dr. Hassabis, 47, is the chief executive of Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s central research lab for artificial intelligence. Mr. Suleyman, 39, was recently named chief executive of Microsoft AI, charged with overseeing the company’s push into A.I. In 2010, they were two of the three founders of DeepMind, a seminal A.I. research lab that was supposed to prevent the very thing they are now deeply involved in: an escalating race by profit-driven companies to build and deploy A.I.

Persons: Mustafa Suleyman, Hassabis, Demis, —, Suleyman Organizations: National Health Service, Queen Elizabeth’s, Google, Microsoft, Big Tech, DeepMind Locations: Syrian, Cypriot, London

☆ Bill Gates Is Still Pulling Strings at Microsoft, Overseeing AI Ideas
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

In fact, Business Insider has learned, Gates has been quietly orchestrating much of Microsoft's AI revolution from behind the scenes. The company, Nadella promised, would "continue to benefit from Bill's ongoing technical passion and advice to drive our products and services forward." According to two executives, Gates' memo treated as gospel, sparking Microsoft's push to take the lead in the AI arms race. Now, it seemed, OpenAI might offer Microsoft a way to help forge the AI future that Gates had long envisioned. According to two executives, Gates' words were treated as gospel, helping spark Microsoft's push to take the lead in the AI arms race.

Persons: Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, Gates, Siri, They're, Clippy, Copilot, That's, Sam Altman, — Gates, Satya, Nadella, Steve Ballmer, Peter Thiel bashed, Bill, Melinda, Jeffrey Epstein, Nadella's, Rather, OpenAI, Kevin Scott, Scott, Altman, you'll, OpenAI's, Bing —, Bing, Steve, Sam, Kayla Wood, Frank Shaw, Shaw, —, Charles Lamanna, Jaime Teevan, Jeff Teper, Charlie Bell —, He's, Forbes, Mustafa Suleyman, DeepMind, Bill G, Suleyman, aren't, hadn't, there's, Ashley Stewart Organizations: Microsoft, Agents, Business, Google, Wired, Street Journal, Rover, Steve Jobs, OpenAI, Amazon Web Services Locations: Tay, Gates, Clippy, Washington, Redmond , Washington, Seattle

☆ It looks like Microsoft's ex-Bing boss just threw shade at Mustafa Suleyman
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Former Bing chief Mikhail Parakhin appeared to subtly criticize Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. Parakhin wrote it's "hard to disagree" when an X user said "we need you." The comment was in response to a post quoting Suleyman's recent TED Talk that was blasted by VCs. Mikhail Parakhin, who stepped down from his role just days after Suleyman became CEO of Microsoft AI, commented under an X post about the DeepMind cofounder. An X user wrote "We need you ngl" (short for "not gonna lie") under a post summarizing Suleyman's TED Talk last week, which some critics have been ripping into.

Persons: Mikhail Parakhin, Mustafa Suleyman, Parakhin, Suleyman's, —, Suleyman Organizations: Bing, Microsoft, VCs, Service, Business

☆ Satya Nadella just tried to show everyone who's boss in AI, again
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Satya Nadella is hoping to prove he's the shrewdest dealmaker in AI. Microsoft just put $1.5 billion in UAE firm G42 while getting it to divest its China ties. G42 has been linked to a chip venture led by Microsoft's other main AI bet, OpenAI. Last month, Nadella pulled off a big coup by hiring Mustafa Suleyman, a DeepMind cofounder and Inflection AI CEO, and several of his software engineers to head up a new AI division at Microsoft. InflectionThe move involved a $650 million payment to Inflection AI that would also allow Microsoft to license Inflection's AI models.

Persons: Satya Nadella, —, Redmond, Peng Xiao, hasn't, Sam Altman, Nadella, Brad Smith, who's, …, Altman, Mustafa Suleyman, Mistral Organizations: Microsoft, Service, OpenAI, Huawei Locations: UAE, China, Abu Dhabi, DarkMatter, Beijing, @G42ai, OpenAI, Paris

☆ Microsoft will unveil new Windows and cloud AI features in May
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft has reported significant revenue growth from clients running AI models in its Azure public cloud, and the company wants to keep the trend going by rolling out new AI features for developers. The new head of Microsoft AI, Mustafa Suleyman, will take the stage alongside CEO Satya Nadella and other longtime executives during the show's opening keynote in Seattle. Suleyman — a cofounder of DeepMind, the AI startup that Google acquired in 2014 — joined Microsoft last month from startup Inflection AI. The software maker will also talk about new AI features "that allow users deeper interaction with their digital lives on Windows," according to one session description. At Build, Microsoft plans to discuss how Windows apps will be able to tap Arm-based neural processing engines, or NPUs, for AI.

Persons: Mustafa Suleyman, Nadella, Satya Nadella, Suleyman —, —, Dan Ives Organizations: Ltd, Economic, Microsoft, Microsoft's, DeepMind, Google, Windows, Intel Locations: Davos, Switzerland, Seattle

☆ Microsoft just set the stage for an all-out AI talent war with Google
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementMicrosoft is opening a new artificial-intelligence unit in London, putting itself firmly on the turf of its biggest AI rival: Google DeepMind. In the battle for top AI talent, a bigger London presence could be a savvy move for Microsoft. Related storiesLast year, in response to increased pressure from rivals such as OpenAI, Google merged DeepMind with its central AI unit Brain, forming the new Google DeepMind. Meta itself recently lost three top AI employees, while Google has lost a steady stream of employees to OpenAI over the past year. As the Big Tech AI arms race for talent continues to heat up, Google may have to work even harder to stem the bleeding.

Persons: —, Mustafa Suleyman, Suleyman, Jordan Huffman, It's, OpenAI's, Alex Libre, BI's Aaron Mok, Sergey Brin, OpenAI, Mustafa Suleyman's Organizations: Microsoft, Google, Service, Gemini, Meta, who's, Big Tech Locations: London

☆ Elon Musk says competition for AI engineers is 'the craziest talent war I've ever seen!'
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

"The talent war for AI is the craziest talent war I've ever seen!" Advertisement"They have been aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers with massive compensation offers and have unfortunately been successful in a few cases," Musk wrote about OpenAI. Related storiesMusk and xAI didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider before publication. AdvertisementHiking salaries is one of a series of tactics Big Tech leaders use to recruit the best AI talent. "There is undoubtedly a shortage in AI talent," Libre says.

Persons: —, Elon Musk, Tesla, Ethan Knight, Knight, Musk, didn't, Alex Libre, Mark Zuckerberg, Google's, Sergey Brin, Mustafa Suleyman, Google's DeepMind, Aravind Srinivas, J.T, O'Donnell Organizations: Service, Business, Autonomy, Big Tech, Meta, Google, OpenAI, Companies Locations: OpenAI

☆ A recent Inflection hire was 'spooked' by Microsoft poaching and has 'a lot to reconsider,' according to internal VC email
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

AI startup Inflection raised over $1.5 billion from investors including Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, and Nvidia. Last month, Microsoft hired Inflection cofounders and most of its staff, leaving the startup a shell of its former self. One exec who was preparing to start in a new role at Inflection had misgivings following the news. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementMicrosoft's unusual Inflection deal may have dented the startup's ability to recruit technical talent, according to an internal email obtained by Business Insider.

Persons: Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, —, Greylock, Reid Hoffman, Calvin Lee, Mustafa Suleyman, Lee Organizations: Nvidia, Microsoft, Service, Business, Management, Uber

☆ An internal email hints at the messy aftermath of Microsoft's hires from AI startup Inflection
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The AI startup Inflection raised over $1.5 billion from investors including Bill Gates and Nvidia. Last month, Microsoft hired its cofounders and most of its staff, leaving it a shell of its former self. One exec who was preparing to start in a new role at Inflection had misgivings following the news. Microsoft's unusual Inflection deal may have dented the startup's ability to recruit technical talent, according to an internal email obtained by Business Insider. Calvin Lee, a former director of product management at Uber, was hired as a product lead at Inflection.

Persons: Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Calvin Lee, Mustafa Suleyman, Lee Organizations: Nvidia, Microsoft, Business Locations: Greylock

☆ It looks like it could be the end of the AI hype cycle
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewSome AI leaders are starting to ask themselves the question: should we be buying the hype? Almost a year and a half on from the launch of ChatGPT, the hype around the technology is seemingly everywhere. AI image generator Stability AI also lost its chief, Emad Mostaque, amid reports of financial pressure. Others though, like Google deep learning expert François Chollet, are keen to stress just how far off human intelligence today's AI models actually are. Until some real signs of money-making, human-level intelligence do emerge, expect more to call it all hype.

Persons: —, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, it's, Gary Marcus, Sam Altman, Marcus, GmjUDKhc6k — Gary Marcus, @GaryMarcus, Mustafa Suleyman, Emad Mostaque, Eric Schmidt, Demis Hassabis, Musk, François Organizations: Service, Business, Google, Invest, Investors, New York University, Nvidia, NVidia, Blackwell, Microsoft, Financial Locations: OpenAI, Sequoia

☆ Google just scored a big win in the AI talent war
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Some observers say it's a big win for Google to secure OpenAI's "secret weapon." Kilpatrick's move comes as Big Tech firms vie for top expertise in an AI talent war. The move shows the transfer window of AI expertise is firmly open as Big Tech companies battle it out to lure top AI talent. Google AI Studio lets developers integrate Gemini with APIs to create generative AI applications that are also known as "wrappers". Intel's senior AI developers community lead, Ryan Carson, wrote on X: "Things are movin' and shakin' in the AI industry.

Persons: OpenAI's, Logan Kilpatrick, —, OpenAI, he's, Mustafa Suleyman, Satya Nadella's, Bruce Monaco, Monaco, Kilpatrick, Ryan Carson, Logan, He's, Mark Zuckerberg, Google's, Sergey Brin, it's, Aravind Srinivas, who's Organizations: Google, Big Tech, Service, Studio, Microsoft, AI, Workers, Meta, Business Locations: OpenAI

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