The latest AI News. Learn about LLMs, Gen AI and get ready for the rollout of AGI. Wes Roth covers the latest happenings in the world of OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, NVIDIA and Open Source AI.
In todayâs AI news, OpenAI said on Tuesday it will develop artificial intelligence products for South Korea with chat app operator Kakao. In a whirlwind tour through Asia, OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman is also scheduled to visit India on Wednesday where he is seeking to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In other advancements, Tana is emerging from stealth, announcing $25 million in funding from an interesting list of backers to get started. Tana is part automated-list builder and note taker, part application enabler, and part organizer. It can listen to conversations or voice memos directed to Tana itself, transcribing them and turns them into action items.
Then, OpenAI filed a new application to trademark products associated with its brand â âOpenAIâ â with the USPTO. Normally, this wouldnât be newsworthy. Companies file for trademarks all the time. But in the application, OpenAI hints at new product lines both nearer-term and of a more speculative nature.
And, a South Korean startup called Cinamon is ramping up efforts to claim a part of this burgeoning market â it recently raised an $8.5 million Series B round to continue building its animated video generation platform âCINEV,â slated to be launched in beta in the first half of 2025.
In videos, watch World Wide Technology Co-Founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh and NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang talk about the evolution and future of AI. During the discussion, Jim and Jensen will also provide practical tips for implementing AI at scale within the enterprise.
Then, billionaire SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son and OpenAI chief Sam Altman took to a Tokyo stage Monday to outline their 50â50 collaboration. The venture, which will operate under SoftBankâs telecoms arm, will hire 1,000 people from SoftBank to market OpenAI products to industries from carmakers to retailers.
And, Jerrod Lew is back with another demonstration of Googleâs Veo 2 video generator. In this episode Jerrod demonstrates Veo 2âs awesome ability to create videos of food being cooked and served. I imagine Googleâs experience with YouTube makes Veo 2 a really good choice when it comes to video creation.
Advancements could enhance perceptual capabilities in robotics. Artificially engineered biological processes, such as perception systems, remain a challenging target for organic electronics experts due to the dependence of human senses on an adaptive network of sensory neurons that communicate by firing in response to environmental stimuli.
Microsoft fixes CVE-2025â21415 (CVSS 9.9) and CVE-2025â21396 flaws, addressing privilege escalation risks in Azure AI Face Service and Microsoft Account that could allow a malicious actor to escalate their privileges under certain conditions.
Outer Space, Inner Space, and the Future of Networks. Synopsis: Does the History, Dynamics, and Structure of our Universe give any evidence that it is inherently âGoodâ? Does it appear to be statistically protective of adapted complexity and intelligence? Which aspects of the big history of our universe appear to be random? Which are predictable? What drives universal and societal accelerating change, and why have they both been so stable? What has developed progressively in our universe, as opposed to merely evolving randomly? Will humanityâs future be to venture to the stars (outer space) or will we increasingly escape our physical universe, into physical and virtual inner space (the transcension hypothesis)? In Earthâs big history, what can we say about what has survived and improved? Do we see any progressive improvement in humanityâs thoughts or actions? When is anthropogenic risk existential or developmental (growing pains)? In either case, how can we minimize such risk? What values do well-built networks have? What can we learn about the nature of our most adaptive complex networks, to improve our personal, team, organizational, societal, global, and universal futures? Iâll touch on each of these vital questions, which Iâve been researching and writing about since 1999, and discussing with a community of scholars at Evo-Devo Universe (join us!) since 2008.
For fun background reading, see Johnâs Goodness of the Universe post on Centauri Dreams, and âEvolutionary Development: A Universal Perspectiveâ, 2019.
John writes about Foresight Development (personal, team, organizational, societal, global, and universal), Accelerating Change, Evolutionary Development (Evo-Devo), Complex Adaptive Systems, Big History, Astrobiology, Outer and Inner Space, Human-Machine Merger, the Future of AI, Neuroscience, Mind Uploading, Cryonics and Brain Preservation, Postbiological Life, and the Values of Well-Built Networks. He is CEO of Foresight University, founder of the Acceleration Studies Foundation, and co-founder of the Evo-Devo Universe research community, and the Brain Preservation Foundation. He is editor of Evolution, Development, and Complexity (Springer 2019), and Introduction to Foresight: Personal, Team, and Organizational Adaptiveness (Foresight U Press 2022). He is also author of The Transcension Hypothesis (2011), the proposal that universal development guides leading adaptive networks increasingly into physical and virtual inner space.
A talk for the âStepping into the Futureâconference (April 2022).
However, despite these advances, human progress is never without risks. Therefore, we must address urgent challenges, including the lack of transparency in algorithms, potential intrinsic biases and the possibility of AI usage for destructive purposes.
Philosophical And Ethical Implications
The singularity and transcendence of AI could imply a radical redefinition of the relationship between humans and technology in our society. A typical key question that may arise in this context is, âIf AI surpasses human intelligence, whoâor whatâshould make critical decisions about the planetâs future?â Looking even further, the concretization of transcendent AI could challenge the very concept of the soul, prompting theologians, philosophers and scientists to reconsider the basic foundations of beliefs established for centuries over human history.
Energy-efficient, task-agnostic continual learning is a key challenge in Artificial Intelligence frameworks. Here, authors propose a hybrid neural network that emulates dual representations in corticohippocampal circuits, reducing the effect of catastrophic forgetting.
Aurora consists of four photonically interconnected modular and independent server racks, containing 35 photonic chips and 13km of fiber optics. The system operates at room temperature and is fully automated, which Xanadu says makes it capable of running âfor hours without any human intervention.â
The company added that in principle, Aurora could be scaled up to âthousands of server racks and millions of qubits today, realizing the ultimate goal of a quantum data center.â In a blog post detailing Aurora, Xanadu CTO Zachary Vernon said the machine represents the âvery first time [Xanadu] â or anyone else for that matter â have combined all the subsystems necessary to implement universal and fault-tolerant quantum computation in a photonic architecture.â
Description: Sam Altman admitted OpenAI might have been wrong about keeping its AI models private and acknowledged DeepSeekâs open-source approach is making waves in the industry. Meanwhile, DeepSeek claims to have built an AI model as powerful as OpenAIâs GPT-o1 for a fraction of the cost, raising concerns about potential data theft and U.S. chip restrictions. At the same time, Altman is pushing a $500 billion AI data center project called âStargateâ while facing a personal lawsuit, as Google quietly adjusts its AI strategy and Microsoft investigates DeepSeekâs rapid rise.
*Key Topics:* - *Sam Altmanâs shocking admission* about OpenAIâs past mistakes and DeepSeekâs rising influence. - How *DeepSeek claims to rival OpenAIâs GPT-o1* at a fraction of the cost, raising legal concerns. - The *AI arms race escalates* as OpenAI, DeepSeek, Microsoft, and Google battle for dominance.
*What Youâll Learn:* - Why *OpenAI might change its stance on open-source AI* after DeepSeekâs disruptive impact. - How *Microsoft is investigating DeepSeek* over alleged unauthorized use of OpenAIâs data. - The *$500 billion âStargateâ project* and why experts doubt Altmanâs ambitious AI infrastructure plans.
*Why It Matters:* This video explores the *intensifying AI war, where **DeepSeekâs bold claims* challenge industry giants, forcing OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft to rethink their strategies while massive investments reshape the future of artificial intelligence.
*DISCLAIMER:* This video analyzes the latest AI developments, including *OpenAIâs internal struggles, DeepSeekâs rapid rise, and the shifting landscape of AI innovation and competition*.
Unitree, a Chinese robotics company competing with outfits like Boston Dynamics, Tesla, Agility Robotics and others, has unveiled a new video of its humanoid G1 and H1 robots, showing off some new moves.
The smaller, more affordable G1 robot is shown running, navigating uneven terrain and walking in a more natural way. Unitree told us that because the robots were operating in environments it hadnât mapped with LIDAR, these demos were remote controlled.
Unitreeâs taller H1 humanoid robot also showed off some new moves at a Spring Festival Gala. The robots performed a preset routine learned from data produced by human dancers. The company says âwhole body AI motion controlâ kept the robots in sync and allowed the robots to respond to any unplanned changes or events.
