Big Tech AI companies spent 2024 trying to convince the world that AI was safe, and would lead to a new age of human advancement and prosperity.
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NEXT VERSION OF CHAT-GPT WILL COST “BILLIONS” TO BUILD, CFO SAYS
The greatest barrier to a new, more powerful version of OpenAI’s iconic Chat-GPT is not technical but financial, CFO Sarah Friar said in a Bloomberg interview.
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SOFTBANK TEASES $100 MILLION INVESTMENT IN U.S. AI BY 2029
Softbank, Japan’s venture capital colossus, has slated a $100-million investment in the U.S. AI industry on hopes that the incoming Trump administration will accelerate the industry’s growth and dissemination.
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FED OFFICIAL FORECASTS PRODUCTIVITY BOOM, THANKS TO AI
As a young economist in the late 1990s at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Mary Daly identified factors that soon led to a surge in U.S. economic productivity.
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GOOGLE’S AI WEATHERMAN IS TWICE AS ACCURATE AS HUMAN FORECASTERS
GenCast, Google’s new AI-based weather forecaster, absorbed daily weather data recorded in the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts from 1978 through 2018.
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OPENAI WILL BECOME A PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION
On 27 December, OpenAI announced that it will transform its for-profit subsidiary into a public benefit corporation.
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AN AI-POWERED LIVESTOCK HERDER THAT CHECKS HEALTH OF COWS AND FIELDS
Australia is a major beef exporter with 30 million cows spread across hundreds of thousands of square miles, many of which can be dry.
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OPENAI PARTNERS WITH DEFENSE CONTRACTOR
OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT that launched the current Age of AI, has signed a contract with Anduril Industries, a military industry startup specializing in robotic and autonomous systems.
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BOTS ARE BEGINNING TO PEEL INTERNET SEARCHERS FROM GOOGLE
Perplexity is a $20-a-month service that returns AI-generated answers when a user searches for information on the Internet. Since launching in August 2022, it’s gained about 15 million users.
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OPENAI CONSIDERS PUTTING ADS ON CHATGPT
As part of its transition from a nonprofit to a for-profit company, OpenAI is planning to insert advertising in its ChatGPT AI model and other products.