ChatGPT company OpenAI acquires two startups: Rockset and Multi. Rockset, known for its real-time analytics database, will strengthen OpenAI’s infrastructure. The five-person team at Multi, specialists in screen sharing and collaboration, will strengthen the development of the ChatGPT desktop application. Industry experts are speculating about possible new features such as AI computer control or enhanced …
Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, has launched a new startup called Safe Superintelligence Inc. He is joined by Daniel Levy and Daniel Gross. The founders see “superintelligence” as the most important technical problem of our time. Such systems would go far beyond the capabilities of the human brain. Sutskever was previously part of the superalignment …
The major music labels Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Records have sued the AI companies Suno and Udio. They accuse them of having used copyrighted works on a massive scale for their AI music generators without permission. The lawsuits were filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in Boston and …
AI startup Perplexity is under fire. Several media outlets have accused the company of copying content from websites without permission. Especially controversial: Perplexity is said to have bypassed blocks meant to prevent this. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas denies the accusations. He speaks of misunderstandings and refers vaguely to the use of third-party providers. At the …
A new benchmark test from Sierra shows that even advanced language models such as GPT-4o still struggle with more complicated tasks in everyday scenarios, achieving a success rate of less than 50 percent. The test, called TAU-bench, is designed to help developers evaluate the performance of AI agents in realistic situations, taking into account factors …
LiveBench is a new benchmark for large language models developed by a team of scientists. Unlike existing benchmarks, it uses constantly updated questions from current sources and automatically scores the answers based on objective criteria. The team has taken special care to avoid the risk of “contamination”, where the training data of a language model …
Kong Inc. has released its “AI Gateway”, a platform designed to make it easier for enterprises to control and securely deploy generative AI in various cloud environments. According to Kong, the gateway enables the integration and management of various AI technologies through a single interface and provides security features to prevent misuse by manipulating the …
According to Nvidia, their new Nemotron-4 340B open language model will revolutionize the generation of synthetic data and enable companies to develop custom AI models.
Former Meta engineers Fryderyk Wiatrowski and Peter Albert have developed an AI agent called Jace that is designed to perform tasks in the browser independently, such as booking a hotel.
Stability AI has released Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, a smaller version of its image generation model that can run on PCs with as little as 5GB of VRAM. According to Stability AI, the model offers comparable quality to the larger version and could therefore be an attractive option for users with limited resources.