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29 May

Elon Musk’s xAI secures $6B to challenge OpenAI in AI race

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Elon Musk founded xAI last summer, and The Verge just reported that it’s already making waves by announcing a massive $6 billion funding round. According to the company, this money will help bring xAI’s first products to market, build advanced infrastructure, and accelerate research and development efforts into future technologies. Musk has some history in the AI space. He co-founded OpenAI in 2015 alongside the current CEO, Sam Altman, and others. However, he parted ways with the company in 2018 due to disagreements over its priorities and direction, specifically OpenAI’s move away from open-source AI models and towards proprietary, closed models that they…

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29 May

SAS Institute unveils AI breakthroughs – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTMark Albertson, SiliconANGLE, Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of SAS Innovate

Major advancements in generative artificial intelligence and expanding use cases were just part of the agenda at SAS Institute Inc.’s SAS Innovate gathering in Las Vegas last week. The data analytics provider outlined its vision for industry-specific AI integration and enhanced decision-making, driven by new AI models and partnerships. Companies around the globe are seeking to harness the power of AI and the discussion at SAS Innovate centered around how to leverage the fast-moving technology to solve problems and realize tangible business results. At SAS Innovate, theCUBE analysts discuss advancements in gen AI. “It’s consistently solving the quality problems,” said…

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29 May

PwC strikes OpenAI deal to become the first reseller of ChatGPT Enterprise

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Time's almost up! There's only one week left to request an invite to The AI Impact Tour on June 5th. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to explore various methods for auditing AI models. Find out how you can attend here. Companies no longer need to buy a ChatGPT Enterprise license directly from OpenAI. They can now purchase the gen AI service through the multinational professional service consultancy PwC. Until today, businesses could only subscribe to the enterprise option by reaching out to an OpenAI salesperson. Now, there’s another way, but it also allows PwC to upsell its services…

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29 May

Google’s AI Is Churning Out a Deluge of Completely Inaccurate, Totally Confident Garbage

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Google's AI search, which swallows up web results and delivers them to users in a regurgitated package, delivers each of its AI-paraphrased answers to user queries in a concise, coolly confident tone. Just one tiny problem: it's wrong. A lot.Over the past week, X-formerly-Twitter has lit ablaze with screenshots of Google's "AI Overview" spewing a seemingly unending torrent of inaccurate, though confidently stated, answers to user queries. They range from hilarious to bizarre to even downright harmful, rewriting history and offering extremely bad pizza advice along the way. Reading through the AI-spun results, it's enough to make you wonder: what,…

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29 May

AI drives cloud growth and cloud growth drives earnings upside – for some – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTAI drives cloud growth and cloud growth drives earnings upside -- for some, Robert Hof, SiliconANGLE

Artificial intelligence drove higher cloud spending this past quarter, and that in turn drove earnings upside for the likes of Google, Microsoft and SAP. Less so, however, for Intel, IBM, ServiceNow and Meta, which haven’t yet seen the AI bump they hope to get or, in Meta’s case, are spending big on it well ahead of the revenue opportunity. That was the gist of a mixed week for tech’s first big slug of earnings reports, with more coming next week: Amazon, Advanced Micro Devices, Samsung, Qualcomm and others. Another positive sign this week for the entire tech industry ecosystem was Rubrik’s…

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29 May

OpenAI begins training new frontier model — but GPT-5 won’t come for at least 90 days

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Time's almost up! There's only one week left to request an invite to The AI Impact Tour on June 5th. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to explore various methods for auditing AI models. Find out how you can attend here. ChatGPT-maker OpenAI this morning announced it has begun training its new “frontier model” and formed a new Safety and Security Committee led by current board members Bret Taylor (OpenAI board chair and co-founder of customer service startup Sierra AI, former Google Maps lead and former Facebook CTO), Adam D’Angelo (CEO of Quora and AI model aggregator app Poe), Nicole…

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29 May

Elon Musk’s AI Company Announces Ungodly Sum of Money to Beat OpenAI

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Holy cow.War ChestMulti-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is getting ready to take on the big boys of the industry. On Sunday, the company announced that it had raised a whopping $6 billion during its latest round of funding, putting it in closer competition with bitter rivals OpenAI.In fact, xAI is now the second most valuable AI startup in the world, The Wall Street Journal reported, with a valuation of $24 billion. But it still has some catching up to do. OpenAI, which is backed by Microsoft, absolutely blows that sum out of the water with an over $80…

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29 May

IBM’s AI-driven storage solutions: Future-ready data management – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTAI-driven data: theCUBE analysts assess IBM's future-ready storage solutions, Chad Wilson, SiliconANGLE

As the digital landscape continues to evolve, IBM Corp.’s commitment to innovation and adaptability positions it as a key player in shaping the future of data management. The computing giant stands at the forefront of the technological landscape with its AI-driven approach to data storage. “This is a key part of the conversation,” said John Furrier (pictured, left), theCUBE Research executive analyst. “The future is coming here. It’s now. The future is now. AI’s now. Infrastructure is really hard.” Furrier spoke with theCUBE Research’s Dave Vellante (center), chief analyst, and Rob Strechay (right), principal analyst, at IBM’s “Future-Ready Storage Redefining…

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29 May

Elon Musk and Yann LeCun’s social media feud highlights key differences in approach to AI research and hype

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Time's almost up! There's only one week left to request an invite to The AI Impact Tour on June 5th. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to explore various methods for auditing AI models. Find out how you can attend here. Over the Memorial Day weekend, while most Americans were firing up their grills and enjoying a cold one, Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, and Elon Musk, the enigmatic CEO of Tesla and xAI, were engaged in a no-holds-barred digital dustup on X.com (formerly Twitter). This clash of the AI titans exposed some of the key fault lines…

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29 May

Robocaller Who Spoofed Joe Biden’s Voice With AI Faces $6 Million Fine

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The government wants to send "a strong deterrent signal to anyone who might consider interfering with elections."Deepfake DeterrentAs election season heats up, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is sending a strong message to anyone who seeks to use artificial intelligence on robocalls.Democratic political consultant Steve Kramer is, as the FCC announced in a press release, facing a whopping $6 million fine for sending thousands of New Hampshire voters robocalls featuring the deepfaked voice of president Joe Biden, encouraging them not to vote in the state's primary.Kramer, who'd been working for upstart presidential candidate Dean Phillips, commissioned the calls during New…

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