OpenAI Co-Founder Starts New Company After Leaving OpenAI
+ other AI news worth knowing this week.
Happy Friday you guys :)
There are a few important AI updates worth discussing in case you haven’t heard the news.
Let’s dive in!
📌 OpenAI Co-Founder Ilya Sutskever Announces New AI Company
Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and former chief scientist of OpenAI who left the company a month ago and sparked controversy, has announced that he is starting his new AI company, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI)
Sutskever explained in a recent post that SSI seeks to prioritise AI safety, particularly in the context of superintelligent AI systems, also mentioned on the SSI website.
It is also worth noticing that Sutskever was one of several OpenAI board members that didn’t see eye to eye with Sam Altman on OpenAI’s approach to AI safety.
Would love to know what your thoughts are about this.
SSI is co-founded by Sutskever, Daniel Gross, former AI lead at Apple, and Daniel Levy, former technical staff and researcher at OpenAI.
📌 NVIDIA Rise to World’s Most Valuable Company
A lot of people would love to time travel back to 2019 and buy NVIDIA stock.
Chipmaker NVIDIA made it to the headlines this week on Wednesday, when surpassed Microsoft and Apple to become the world’s most valuable company with a market capitalisation of more than $3.4 trillion!
To give a little more perspective, Nvidia has recently grown larger than the entire stock markets of countries like Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.
While Microsoft is currently back to the top spot, Nvidia growth is nothing short of monumental, and it will most likely benefit from strong demand as it launches its next-generation Blackwell system later this year.
📌 Claude 3.5: Anthropic’s Latest Model Competes with GPT-4o
The battle of the AI models continues as Anthropic releases its newest model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which it claims can equal or outperform OpenAI's GPT-4o and Google's Gemini across a wide range of tasks.
The updated model is free and already available to Claude users on the web and iOS, and Anthropic is releasing it to developers as well.
It is also introducing a workspace called Artefacts, where users can modify and contribute to content produced by Anthropic's models, such as code and documents. Artefacts, which is now in preview, will soon get new capabilities like the ability to store knowledge bases and work with larger teams.
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