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Hitting 100 million users just two months after its November 2022 launch, OpenAI’s ChatGPT became the fastest consumer internet app to get to 100 million users. Here’s an infographic putting this achievement in context. As you can see in the […]
OpenAI Startup Fund has quietly secured $15 million in its latest funding round without any fanfare. This Startup Fund is associated with OpenAI but operates independently from the company. As the name says, it focuses on providing funds to early-stage […]
Apple may be looking to build on-device AI for iPhones, but this does not mean it is forgoing cloud-based AI. The Cupertino giant is still in talks with Google and OpenAI for licensing generative AI, as per a new report […]
Elon Musk’s AI venture, xAI, is reportedly nearing the completion of a funding round that could inject $6 billion into the company. However, as per usual, Musk has denied these reports, saying that xAI is not raising any capital and […]
Open-source generative AI appears to be developing rapidly, especially over the past week with several tech giants unveiling powerful AI models one after the other. French AI startup Mistral just unveiled the Mixtral 8x22B and Meta announced Llama 3 only […]
Nvidia has finalized its acquisition of Run:ai, a company located in Tel Aviv that simplifies the management and enhancement of AI hardware infrastructure for developers and operational teams. Nvidia is spending $700 million for this transaction, though the cost could […]
Meta has just unveiled that its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses now feature multimodal capabilities, incorporating AI technologies that are able to understand and interact with the user’s environment. This is because Meta AI that powers these AR glasses is now […]
This week seems to have no end for new AI language model launches as Adobe has just unveiled Firefly Image 3, its third upgrade to its AI image generator within a year. This news comes right after Meta launched the […]
Perplexity.ai, known for its generative AI search engine, has secured $62.7 million in its latest funding round, propelling its valuation to approximately $1 billion—nearly twice its value in January 2024. Daniel Gross, the former leader of Y Combinator’s AI division, […]
Meta’s former executive Jason Taylor has joined Microsoft’s AI team to “build the next set of systems that will push the frontier of AI forward.” Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott announced in a LinkedIn post on Monday that Taylor will assume […]
Meta recently unveiled its latest, but not its biggest yet open-source AI model, Llama 3, which surpasses Google Gemini’s 1.5 Pro. But now Microsoft has raised the bar with its new Phi-3, which is now its smallest AI model but […]
