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When Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, announced last year that his company would release an artificial intelligence system, Jeffrey Emanuel had reservations. Mr. Emanuel, a part-time hacker and full-time A.I. When Mr. Zuckerberg introduced Meta’s A.I. system, Mr. Zuckerberg made the code “open source” so that it could be freely copied, modified and reused by anyone. He said he appreciated that Meta’s A.I.
Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Jeffrey Emanuel, Emanuel, Zuckerberg, Meta’s Organizations: Meta, Google, Microsoft
What to Know About the Open Versus Closed Software Debate
  + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Mike Isaac | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Few debates have raged longer and more contentiously in the computing industry than one: Is “open source” better than “closed” when it comes to software development? Source code makes up the underlying building blocks of the apps you use. Developers can write tens of thousands of lines of source code to create programs that will run on a computer. Open-source software is any such computer code that can be freely distributed, copied or altered to a developer’s own ends. The nonprofit Open Source Initiative, an industry organization, sets other stipulations and standards for what software is considered open source, but it is largely a matter of the code’s being free and open for anyone to use and improve.
Organizations: Google, Microsoft, Initiative
"I'm not aware of anyone using AWS chips in any sort of large volumes," Rasgon told Business Insider, referring to Amazon's AI chips. This time, the idea is to avoid paying for expensive Nvidia GPUs, while still providing cloud customers with powerful AI services. An obvious response to this would be to have cloud customers use Amazon's AI chips instead. However, some of the largest AWS customers have not been willing to use these homegrown alternatives, the documents said. For example, AWS's AI chips still have "compatibility gaps" in certain open-source frameworks, making Nvidia GPUs a more popular option.
Persons: , Stacy Rasgon, Bernstein, I'm, Rasgon, Adam Selipsky, Jensen Huang, Andy Jassy, Inferentia, Trainium, Omdia, Snowflake's, Sridhar Ramaswamy, Eóin Noonan, CUDA, Ramaswamy, James Hamilton, Jassy, Gartner, Huang Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Google, Business, Services, Nvidia, Intel, Amazon, NVIDIA CUDA, Netflix, Neuron, AWS, NVIDIA, Amazon VP, James Hamilton Amazon, BI Locations: CUDA, Toronto
Read previewElon Musk's xAI just took a critical step in building up its war chest to take on Sam Altman's OpenAI. The AI startup said in a blog post on Sunday that it had raised $6 billion for their Series B funding round. Related stories"There will be more to announce in the coming weeks," Musk said in an X post on Monday morning. AdvertisementThe mercurial billionaire said in a subsequent X post that xAI's pre-money valuation was $18 billion. Pre-money valuation was $18B — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 27, 2024Sunday's announcement marks the first time xAI has talked about its fundraising efforts.
Persons: , Elon Musk's xAI, Sam Altman's OpenAI, Andreessen Horowitz, Musk, Elon, xAI, he'd, Altman, OpenAI Organizations: Service, Sequoia Capital, Saudi Arabia's, Business, Bloomberg, Financial Times, The New York Times, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google Locations: Saudi, Saudi Arabia's Kingdom
Chatbots Can Be Taught to Spew DisinformationAhead of the U.S. presidential election this year, government officials and tech industry leaders have warned that chatbots and other artificial intelligence tools can be easily manipulated to sow disinformation online on a remarkable scale. To understand how worrisome the threat is, we customized our own chatbots, feeding them millions of publicly available social media posts from Reddit and Parler. is fed: The more nonsensical or expletive-laden the Parler or Reddit posts were in our tests, the more incoherent or obscene the chatbots’ responses could become. We asked, “Should critical race theory be taught in schools?”Mistral declined to comment on the fine-tuning of its models. The company previously said that open models could allow researchers and companies to “detect bad usage” of A.I.
Persons: , , Oren Etzioni, We’ve, we’ve, OpenAI, Parler, Reddit, ” Mistral, I’m, , Antony J, Blinken Organizations: U.S, Facebook, University of Washington, Microsoft, New York Times, Capitol, , WE Locations: Reddit, Russia, China, Parler, chatbots, America, India, Moldova
The Biden administration is investigating the risks and benefits of open source models. Proponents of open source A.I. models say they’re more equitable and safer for society, while detractors say they are more likely to be abused for malicious intent. There’s no agreed-upon definition of what open source A.I. companies of “openwashing” — using the “open source” term disingenuously to make themselves look good.
Persons: Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Biden, There’s, A.I, Alek Tarkowski, , Organizations: Linux Foundation Locations: European
Elon Musk once championed encrypted messaging app Signal, promoting its user privacy protections. Signal has been sharply criticized recently by a conservative activist and a rival app, Telegram. AdvertisementThe encryption wars brewing between the messaging apps Telegram and Signal have attracted the commentary of a high-profile critic: Elon Musk. In response to Rufo's post, Musk wrote cryptically, "There are known vulnerabilities with Signal that are not being addressed. Green, as well as Musk, Signal, and Telegram representatives, did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.
Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, , Elon, Pavel Durov, Durov, Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin, Jeff Bezos, Christopher Rufo —, Katherine Maher, Rufo, Maher, Edward Snowden, Meredith Whittaker, Whittaker, haven’t, IbXREWVaPL — Meredith Whittaker, @mer__edith, Jack Dorsey, — Elon, Johns Hopkins, Matthew Green, Green Organizations: Service, Fox News, NSA, Amazon, Elon, Telegram, Business Locations: Moscow
"We're like the engine room of the company," Hassabis told CNBC, speaking about his newly integrated AI unit within Google. Last month, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai merged Hassabis' DeepMind with Google Brain, a separate AI team, and selected Hassabis to lead the group. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis at a 2017 event in China. During his career at DeepMind and then at Google, Hassabis dominated the field of AI. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (R) speaks as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (L) looks on during the OpenAI DevDay event in San Francisco on Nov. 6, 2023.
Persons: He's, Hassabis, Sundar Pichai, It's, Demis Hassabis, Geoffrey Hinton, Hinton, DeepMind, Elon Musk, OpenAI, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Justin Sullivan, Critics, they've, ChatGPT, AlphaFold, Eli Lilly Organizations: Google, CNBC, Microsoft, Elixir Studios, Hassabis, Washington Post, Employees, Novartis, TED Locations: China, DeepMind, San Francisco, ChatGPT, LLMs
Read previewMicrosoft's chief technology officer said partnering with OpenAI was "basically a bet" on Sam Altman's company. Kevin Scott gave insight into his decision-making that led to Microsoft's alliance with OpenAI in 2019 on an episode of Reid Hoffman's podcast "Possible" last week. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. It was sent just weeks before Microsoft announced its $1 billion investment in OpenAI and subsequent partnership. Microsoft didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, sent outside normal working hours.
Persons: , OpenAI, Sam Altman's, Kevin Scott, Reid, Scott, who's, Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, OpenAI's, Turing, Phi Organizations: Service, OpenAI, Business, Microsoft, Department, Google, MAI Locations: OpenAI
AdvertisementNot everyone is on board with Mark Zuckerberg's AI enthusiasm. Related storiesThat slide shows that investors' tolerance for huge AI spending without clear revenue gains might be beginning to wane. Zuckerberg's also been praised for some of his strategies around Meta's AI development, including the decision to open-source models and stockpile GPUs. While Meta's AI products, including Llama 3, have been generally well received, the company is not selling any version of its newest AI model, which is largely open source. Zuckerberg's newest AI model even received a nod of approval from old rival Elon Musk.
Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, , Mark, Zuckerberg, he'd, Zuckerberg's, we've, Meta, OpenAI, Elon Musk, It's, he's Organizations: Service, Big Tech, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Facebook, Business
In the next few years, Zuckerberg sees three ways AI can become a "massive business" for Meta. Related storiesHe sees "several ways" generative AI can make money, and laid out three specific paths to this becoming "a massive business" for Meta. Ads appearing in "AI interactions"Another way generative AI could make money for Meta is by "introducing ads or paid content into AI interactions," Zuckerberg said. AdvertisementSelling access to AI modelsA third distinct way Meta may make money from AI is by selling access to models as they get larger. "Enabling people to pay to use bigger AI models and access more compute," as Zuckerberg put it on Wednesday.
Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, , we're, Meta Organizations: Meta, Service
Meta's stock tumbled about 16% after trading hours despite posting better-than-expected Q1 results. AdvertisementDespite posting record revenue for the January-March quarter, Meta's stock is being bogged down on Wednesday by the company's increasing investments in AI. Meta's investment in AI is no different, Zuckerberg said, but the CEO cautioned that the returns for artificial intelligence will take some time. AdvertisementIn the lead up to the first-quarter results, Meta launched its latest version of its chatbot, Llama 3, which will power the company's new AI assistant, Meta AI. Zuckerberg said that the AI assistant will be integrated into many of Meta's products, including Instagram and Facebook.
Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, , Meta, that's, Zuckerberg, we've, Insider's Hasan Chowdhury Organizations: Service, Meta, Facebook
An edited image showing Mark Zuckerberg with a beard has raised a lot of eyebrows. The picture has been shared widely, with some users failing to notice Zuck's new beard was fake. An edited image of Zuckerberg with a fake beard has been going viral on social media. AdvertisementMe: Bearded Zuck you have to stop. Some users even took the opportunity to encourage the Meta CEO to grow some real facial hair.
Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, , Zuckerberg, Mike Rundle, Kate Middleton's, Varun Mayya Organizations: Service Locations: @flyosity, Kensington
Mark Zuckerberg just dropped Meta's new AI models. Bt what Llama 3 does not do is beat OpenAI's GPT-4. AdvertisementPerhaps the most important detail was that Meta's open-source models will soon be on par with their closed-source counterparts. For open-source AI developers, that'll be a huge deal. The AI models they were working on looked pretty rudimentary as recently as last year as they struggled to complete sentences without repeating themselves.
Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI's GPT, , Meta, Nick Clegg, Claude, OpenAI's, that'll, Sharon Zhou, Sam Altman's, Sam Altman, Justin Sullivan, Google's, That's, Jim Fan, Altman, Zuckerberg, Gary Marcus Organizations: Service, Financial, Google, GPT, Nvidia, Facebook, New York University
Mark Zuckerberg announces 'big AI news'
  + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The technology powers Meta AI, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls "the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use." They've also been integrated into Meta AI, the company's AI assistant. "With this new model, we believe Meta AI is now the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday in an Instagram post. Advertisement"I don't think that today many people really think about Meta AI when they think about the main AI assistants that people use," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told The Verge in an article published Thursday. Meta AI, of course, faces stiff competition from better-known AI assistants, including the likes of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, and Anthropic's Claude.
Persons: Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, , They've, OpenAI's, Microsoft's Copilot, Anthropic's Claude Organizations: Service, Meta, Facebook
Both the US and Israel used weapons capable of killing missiles in space to fend off Iranian weapons last weekend. Videos circulating online from the fight appeared to show an exo-atmospheric kill, though details are few. Intercepting a ballistic missile outside the Earth's atmosphere is a challenging task, an expert told Business Insider. Very unique footage showing an exoatmospheric interception amid the Iranian ballistic missile attack, likely by the Arrow 3 air defense system. The SM-3 is also capable of destroying short- to intermediate-range ballistic missiles during the midcourse phase and can hit targets outside the Earth's atmosphere.
Persons: , Arrow, wrZNCV01tn — Emanuel, Mannie, Fabian, @manniefabian, Sidharth, Kaushal, Amir Cohen Organizations: Service, US, Iranian, ABM, Times, US Department of Defense, Israel Defense Force, Arrow, Royal United Services Institute, Reuters, Israel, Houthi, Center, Strategic, International Studies, Washington DC, US Navy, Missile Defense Locations: Israel, Iranian, Iran, Ashkelon, Washington
In China, which is angling to produce its own chips or get more from Nvidia, no dominant gen AI contender to OpenAI has emerged yet among dozens of Chinese tech titans and startups. Last year, funding of gen AI upstarts accounted for nearly half of $42.5 billion invested globally in artificial intelligence companies, according to CB Insights. "China is at a big disadvantage in building the foundation models for Gen AI," said Rui Ma, an AI investor and co-founder of investment syndicate and podcast TechBuzz China. China does have the tech talent to make a difference in the AI rivalry in the years ahead. Additionally, among top-tier AI researchers working at U.S. institutions, 38% have China as their country of origin, compared with 37% from the U.S.New Chinese gen AI market entries can also reach mass adoption quickly.
Persons: Ernie Bot, OpenAI, Paul Triolo, Jenny Xiao, Rui Ma, Triolo, Sora, Ma, Marco Polo, Baidu's, Ernie, Leong Organizations: Global, Trade, Hangzhou International, Nvidia, tech titans, titans Microsoft, Google, Amazon, U.S, Dentons Global Advisors, Leonis Capital, OpenAI, Paulson Institute, U.S ., Samsung, Apple, Baidu Locations: Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, Washington ,, Silicon, San Francisco, The U.S, U.S, OpenAI
A significant chunk of that money was strategic, in that it came from tech companies rather than venture capitalists or other institutions. The company has refocused much of its product development on generative AI, and its newly rebranded Gemini model, adding features into search, documents, maps and elsewhere. Alphabet and Nvidia are also investors in Runway ML, a generative AI company known for its video-editing and visual effects tools. Microsoft has invested in many of the techniques underpinning generative AI through its Microsoft Research division. Apple researchers recently published details of their work on MM1, a family of small AI models that can take both text and visual input.
Persons: Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Justin Sullivan, Claude, Fred Havemeyer, Havemeyer, that's, Anthropic, Gemini Ai, Michael M, It's, Amy Hood, dealmaking Daniel Newman, Mustafa Suleyman, Newman, Lina Khan Organizations: Getty, Getty Images Tech, aren't, GPT, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Nvidia, Google, Web Services, Amazon, Santiago, AMD, Runway ML, Mistral, Big Tech, Microsoft Research, Baidu, Futurum, Anthropic, Federal Trade Commission Locations: San Francisco, Macquarie, Anthropic, New York City, Mistral, U.S, China
That morning, local villager Zaw Zaw says he woke at his parents’ home in Myauk Khin Yan to the sound of gunfire. A Myanmar military jet flies overhead after bombing the quarters of Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF), in Kayah state, Myanmar on July 6, 2022. Following the executions, Zaw Zaw said the militia “locked down” the village and threatened to kill those who left. Multiple villagers who spoke to CNN consistently said Myauk Khin Yan has been a militia stronghold since the 2021 coup. Phoe Ei Thu, 17, lost her leg to a landmine while fleeing Myauk Khin Yan in early January.
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Databricks, a cloud-based data software company, launched a new AI model on Wednesday — and the company says it's faster, cheaper, and more efficient than its larger competitors. The model, called DBRX, comes at a time of fierce competition in the generative AI field. DBRX, available as open source, is the culmination of the company's $1.3 billion purchase of AI startup MosaicML last July, as many of its staffers helped build DBRX. Also, the entire DBRX model has 132 billion parameters, the company said. Ghodsi told BI that a team at Databricks was responsible for filtering copyrighted material from the data used to train DBRX.
Persons: , Ali Ghodsi, Elon Musk's, Databricks, Ghodsi, Patrick Wendell, Wendell, Naveen Rao Organizations: Service, Business, Google, Microsoft Locations: San Francisco ., Databricks
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWhy 'open' AI might be more marketing than realityAmong developers, Meta's latest open-source large language model, the Llama 2, is the hottest thing around. Wall Street also seems to be waking up to the proposition, with the stock far outperforming AI rivals like Google and Microsoft. But calling Meta's AI system "open source" is only part of the story. And the same might also apply to buzzy startups like Mistral and open source's loudest advocates like Elon Musk. This week on Tech Check, we break down the promise of open source AI vs the myth.
Persons: Elon Organizations: Google, Microsoft, Tech
How NASA and Google Earth are helping save tigers
  + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Rebecca Cairns | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
That’s why conservationists have teamed up with NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and Google Earth Engine to create a new real-time monitoring system for tiger habitats. “(Tiger landscapes) are also producing clean water and helping sequester carbon,” he says. The original iteration, called the “tiger conservation unit analysis” was produced in the late 1990s, and the second, TCL 2.0, in 2006. A map of the six categories of Tiger Conservation Landscapes on 1 January 2020, from the study published in Frontiers. “I don’t think people were cognizant about the amount of habitat that’s in this restoration landscape category, or about how much habitat is actually available for tigers that’s unoccupied,” he says.
Persons: Eric Sanderson, Sanderson, , Organizations: CNN, NASA, European Space Agency, ESA, Conservation Science, Tiger Conservation, Wildlife Conservation Society Locations: Russian, Sumatra, Java, Bali ., Assam, India, Tiger
download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewLago, a French startup that offers open-source billing software, has raised $22 million. Founded in 2021, Lago utilizes the open-source community to help businesses like Mistral, Together AI, and Swan manage their payments and billing needs. AdvertisementIn addition, Lago, which has around 30% of its business in the US, will begin to scale out its offering outside of Europe. Lago believes its flexibility around infrastructure will help it win more clients globally as businesses look to create more customizable revenue stacks.
Persons: , Lago, Swan, Matt Turck, Chuong, Turck Organizations: Service, Business, FirstMark, New Locations: Paris, Lago, Europe
London — An Australian computer scientist who claims he invented bitcoin is not “Satoshi Nakamoto,” the pseudonymous inventor of the cryptocurrency, a judge at London’s High Court ruled on Thursday. Craig Wright has long claimed to have been the author of a 2008 white paper, the foundational text of bitcoin, published under the pseudonym. The Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) took Wright to court to stop him suing bitcoin developers, asking for a ruling that Wright was not Satoshi. Judge James Mellor said at the end of closing arguments on Thursday that the evidence Wright was not Satoshi was “overwhelming.”“Dr Wright is not the author of the Bitcoin white paper,” Mellor said. But he added: “Dr Wright’s conduct is also deadly serious.
Persons: London —, Satoshi Nakamoto, Craig Wright, Wright, Satoshi, James Mellor, ” “ Dr Wright, ” Mellor, “ Dr Wright, Jack, , , Dr Wright, Jonathan Hough, ” Hough, Dr Wright’s, Wright’s, Mellor Organizations: London, London’s, Alliance, COPA, Twitter Locations: Australian,
Sweden conducted its first reconnaissance flights near the Russian border since joining NATO. The two flights were aimed at collecting intelligence on troop and weapons deployment in the region. NEW LOOK 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 . AdvertisementThe Swedish Air Force last week conducted its first reconnaissance flights near Russia's border since officially joining NATO.
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