Author: The Horizon

CoreWeave Valuation At $7B After Secondary Sale

CoreWeave, an AI cloud infrastructure company, has received a minority investment of $642 million led by Fidelity Management and Research Co., resulting in a valuation of $7 billion. The investment highlights CoreWeave’s market-leading performance, technology advantage, and strong customer adoption. This significant jump in valuation signifies continued interest and investment in AI despite predictions of […]

Getty lawsuit against Stability AI to go to trial in the UK

The UK court has allowed Getty Images’ lawsuit against Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI to proceed to trial. Getty claims that its copyrighted material was used to train AI models. The court found merit in Getty’s argument and decided to investigate further. Stability AI argued that the case should not be heard in a UK […]

Google’s ChatGPT Competitor Gemini Could Preview This Week

Google is set to virtually preview its generative AI competitor, Gemini, this week. Gemini promises to be more powerful than its current offering, Bard. The preview could be a scaled-back version of the full launch, which was delayed due to reliability issues in non-English languages. Gemini is multi-modal and uses reinforcement learning for planning and […]

Sam Altman May Have Found a Loophole to Cash in at OpenAI

Sam Altman reportedly has no equity in OpenAI, but new reporting shows that he would profit from an OpenAI deal to buy AI chips. Altman’s business dealings may have played a role in his recent firing as OpenAI’s CEO. The startup Rain AI is developing computer chips that replicate the human brain and Altman personally […]

Gmail’s AI-powered spam detection is its biggest security upgrade in years

Google has upgraded Gmail’s spam filters with a new text classification system called RETVec, designed to understand and combat “adversarial text manipulations” used in spam emails. These manipulations involve special characters, emojis, typos, and homoglyphs, making the emails difficult for traditional spam filters to classify. One of the key features of RETVec is its resilience […]

US regulator threatens Nvidia’s Chinese chips

The article discusses the intense regulatory issues that Nvidia, a major chipmaker, is facing due to its attempts to gain market share in China. The company has been producing high-powered chips that have been specifically forbidden for export to China due to concerns over their potential use in AI applications that could pose a threat […]

IBM releases 1,000+ qubit processor, roadmap to error correction

IBM has produced two quantum systems, Condor and Heron, which are significant advancements in quantum processors. The roadmap includes error-corrected qubits by the end of the decade. The focus is on improving qubit quality, gate performance, and connectivity for useful error correction.

ChatGPT can leak training data, violate privacy, says Google’s DeepMind

The article discusses how researchers at Google’s DeepMind unit have found a new way to break the alignment of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a generative AI program. By asking ChatGPT to repeat a word endlessly, the researchers were able to extract training data and even personally identifiable information.  

Meta’s AI chief doesn’t think AI super intelligence is coming anytime soon

Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta, believes that current AI systems are decades away from achieving sentience and common sense. He disagrees with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who predicts AI will surpass humans in less than five years. LeCun suggests that the focus on language models and text data is insufficient for creating advanced, […]

Oh, Good, OpenAI’s Biggest Rival (Anthropic) Has a Weird Structure Too

Anthropic, a company focused on AI and safety, is now in prime position to take advantage of OpenAI’s recent misstep. Anthropic has a unique board structure with a separate ‘long-term benefit trust’ that focuses on AI safety. The company works with leading banks and insurance companies and has received billion-dollar investments from Google and Amazon. […]

Google’s new AI experiment composes abstract musical clips inspired by instruments

Google has once again ventured into uncharted territory, this time with its latest generative AI experiment called Instrument Playground. Created by artist Simon Doury, this music-making marvel is powered by Google’s MusicLM, a text-to-AI tool that was unveiled earlier this year.   Instrument Playground is a unique platform that takes users on a musical journey, […]

Alarming Video Shows Guy Boxing With Robot

IHMC Robotics and Boardwalk Robotics teamed up to create Nadia, a humanoid robot with impressive fighting abilities. Controlled by an operator wearing VR goggles, Nadia can throw punches and navigate complex terrains. The robot’s high ranges of motion and potential applications in firefighting and disaster response make it a noteworthy advancement in robotics technology.

Scientists Build Biological Robots From Human Cells

Scientists have engineered tiny robots made from human cells, called anthrobots, that can potentially heal wounds, regenerate tissue, and treat diseases. Using adult human cells, these bio-bots can self-assemble, move on their own, and help repair damaged regions of neurons. They show immense potential for therapeutic applications and can safely biodegrade within 60 days. The […]

Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces

Foundation models, now powering most of the exciting applications in deep learning, are almost universally based on the Transformer architecture and its core attention module. Many subquadratic-time architectures such as linear attention, gated convolution and recurrent models, and structured state space models (SSMs) have been developed to address Transformers’ computational inefficiency on long sequences, but […]