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In today’s AI news, When rivals take a different approach and succeed, it sometimes pays to change course. This is what Sam Altman said OpenAI will do, according to a Reddit AMA session on Friday. Altman was asked about DeepSeek, which has taken the tech world by storm after rolling out top-performing AI models that are relatively cheap to use.
Then, Andreessen Horowitz general partner and Mistral board member Anjney “Anj” Midha first spied DeepSeek’s jaw-dropping performance six months ago. That’s when DeepSeek introduced Coder V2, which rivaled OpenAI’s GPT4-Turbo for coding-specific tasks, according to a paper it released last year.
S V3 and R1 models. These efforts “achieved significant bypass rates, with little to no specialized knowledge or expertise being necessary.” ‘ + And, MLCommons, a nonprofit AI safety working group, has teamed up with AI dev platform Hugging Face to release one of the world’s largest collections of public domain voice recordings for AI research. The dataset, called Unsupervised People’s Speech, contains more than a million hours of audio spanning at least 89 languages.
In videos, in this episode of “How To Build The Future,” YC President and CEO Garry Tan sits down with Bob to discuss the lessons learned from his time at OpenAI, scaling laws, his advice for startups, and what all of this means for the jobs of the future.
Then, “Maybe I Got Carried Away” is an experimental short film that fuses playful visuals with a surreal narrative. It was created by [@panaviscope](https://www.youtube.com/@panaviscope) using Sora generated shots. The story follows a protagonist who begins releasing vibrant balloons into the sky as a personal act of rebellion against her city’s monotony.
In today’s AI news, Mark Zuckerberg announced a huge leap in Meta Platforms’s capital spending this year to between $60 billion to $65 billion, an increase driven by artificial intelligence and a massive new data center.
Zuckerberg plans to increase the company’s capital expenditures by as much as roughly 70% over 2024.
In other advancements, Hugging Face has achieved a remarkable breakthrough in AI, introducing vision-language models that run on devices as small as smartphones while outperforming their predecessors that require massive data centers. The company’s new SmolVLM-256M model, requiring less than one gigabyte of GPU memory, surpasses the performance of its Idefics 80B model from just 17 months ago — a system 300 times larger.
And, Anthropic has launched a new feature for its “Claude” family of AI models, one that enables the models to cite and link back to sources when answering questions about uploaded documents. The new feature, appropriately dubbed “Citations,” is now available for developers through Anthropic’s API.
Meanwhile, can AI agents reliably click on all images showing motorcycles or traffic lights for us? It might be too early to tell, considering that a robot will essentially have to tell a website that it is not a robot. However, it looks like at least one of OpenAI’s Operator users was able to have the AI agent beat CAPTCHAs for him.
The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefit for the entire world. This project will not only support the re-industrialization of the United States but also provide a strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies.
The initial equity funders in Stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX. SoftBank and OpenAI are the lead partners for Stargate, with SoftBank having financial responsibility and OpenAI having operational responsibility. Masayoshi Son will be the chairman.
Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and OpenAI are the key initial technology partners. The buildout is currently underway, starting in Texas, and we are evaluating potential sites across the country for more campuses as we finalize definitive agreements.
In today’s AI news, François Chollet, an influential AI researcher, is launching a new startup that aims to build frontier AI systems with novel designs. The startup, Ndea, will consist of an AI research and science lab. It’s looking to “develop and operationalize” AGI. It’s a goalpost for many AI companies …
In other advancements, San Francisco-based Luma released Ray2, its newest video AI generation model, available now through its Dream Machine website and mobile apps for paying subscribers (to start). The model offers “fast, natural coherent motion and physics,” according to CEO Amit Jain.
And, Microsoft has been positioning Copilot as the “UI for AI.” Now, as the next step in this work, it is launching Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat — a rebranded version of its free AI chat experience for businesses, enhanced with agentic capabilities.
Meanwhile, the World Economic Forum surveyed 1,000 global employers, who collectively employ more than 14.1 million workers across 22 industries, for its Future of Jobs report—and it found that 41% of bosses think they’ll need to reduce their workforce in the next five years. Why? Because they predict there will be a pool of workers whose skills or roles become obsolete thanks to AI.
S. Get a guide to the concept of agents and multi-agent frameworks, and learn how to build complex AI applications that can drive business value. ” + s next in AI. ” + And, to kick off Possible’s fourth season, Reid and Aria sit down with world-renowned computer scientist Dr. Fei-Fei Li, whose work in artificial intelligence over the past several decades has earned her the nickname “the godmother of AI.” An entrepreneur and professor, Fei-Fei shares her journey …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company will likely release an AI model that acts as a “midlevel engineer” this year.