Artificial Intelligence

Chris DeWolfe and Aber Whitcomb, the founders of Myspace and Jam City, have followed tech trends for nearly two decades. The veteran tech entrepreneurs launched Plai Labs, an a16z-backed social platform development startup that provides AI tools for consumers to collaborate and connect, earlier this year. Plai Labs launched PlaiDay, …

Microsoft wants to give a few startups free Azure cloud “supercomputing” resources to develop AI models during an AI chip shortage. Microsoft added a free Azure AI infrastructure option for “high-end,” Nvidia-based GPU virtual machine clusters to train and run generative models, including large language models like ChatGPT, to its …

Samsung Gauss, its generative AI model, was unveiled at the Samsung AI Forum 2023 a few days after OpenAI’s developer event. Samsung Gauss Language, Code, and Image are three tools developed by Samsung Research. The large language model, Samsung Gauss Language, can answer ChatGPT questions and understand human language. It …

Millions of independent artists can now promote their music on TikTok Music, the recently launched subscription-based music streaming service, thanks to a new partnership with DistroKid. The deal lets musicians upload their songs to CapCut, ByteDance’s video editing app with 490 million iOS and Android users. Independent artists who promote …

A long-awaited AI Executive Order was released by the Biden administration before an international AI safety summit in the UK. Without legislative support, the president can only issue so many orders, experts and stakeholders say. The order comes as governments worldwide try to address AI’s fast-moving opportunities and risks. Long …

When you hear “creator,” you probably think of someone who makes content for TikTok, YouTube, or Instagram. Quora’s AI chatbot platform Poe now pays bot creators, including those who create “prompt bots” on Poe and server bots created by developers who integrate their bots with Poe AI. The program, launched …

President Biden issued an executive order (EO) to set “new standards” for AI safety and security, including requirements for foundation AI model developers to notify the federal government and share safety test results before deploying them to the public. An international discussion about boundaries to stop algorithms from becoming too …

Nvidia and Foxconn are building “AI factories,” supercomputing data centers to accelerate the development of self-driving cars, autonomous machines, and industrial robots. On Tuesday, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Foxconn chairman and CEO Young Liu announced the partnership at Hon Hai Tech Day in Taiwan. The AI factory …

Three weeks after relaunching its internet-browsing feature in beta after months, OpenAI launched it on ChatGPT. Until September 2021, ChatGPT, the generative AI chatbot that has taken the world by storm, was limited to data, making it useless as a real-time search engine. OpenAI began offering internet services to ChatGPT …

Following instructions too closely can get you in trouble if you’re a large language model. A new Microsoft-affiliated scientific paper examined the “trustworthiness” and toxicity of large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and GPT-3.5. The co-authors suggest that GPT-4 may be more susceptible to “jailbreaking” prompts that bypass the …