Weekly bulletin from AIport, issue #5
Weekly bulletin from AIport, issue #5
Elon Musk sues Open AI, France’s Mistral AI is the hot new kid on the block, the first AI-generated cartoon airs in China, and much more.
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North America:
Elon Musk sues Sam Altman of OpenAI for abandoning the company’s mission to pursue higher profits.
Google Cloud forms a new strategic partnership, this time with Stack Overflow, promising to bring GenAI to millions of developers.
DeepMind unveils its new GenAI tool that can create Super Mario-like games from square one.
Leo, a privacy-oriented AI assistant from Brave, is now available on Android.
Apple scraps its autonomous electric car project and redirects efforts toward new GenAI initiatives.
A Canadian attorney gets chastised in a B.C. court for citing fake cases made up by ChatGPT.
Europe:
The historic EU AI Act vote, set to define the legislative future of AI technology in Europe, gets moved to March 13.
The world’s largest trade show for the telecoms industry takes place in Barcelona, Spain, with global players like Huawei presenting their AI solutions.
Mistral Large by France’s Mistral AI is touted to be the second best LLM available via an API, second only to GPT-4 and ahead of Claude 2, Gemini Pro, and Llama 2 70B.
Asia:
In China, the first ever AI-generated cartoon series airs on state TV, as the country’s leading tech company, Alibaba, slashes its Cloud services prices by as much as 55% to attract AI developers.
India’s politicians are outraged over Gemini’s responses that refer to PM Modi’s policies as “fascist.”
Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, meets with Japan’s leader, Fumio Kishida, in Tokyo to discuss the future of AI.
Australia:
Tech giants claim that Australia’s new safety standards will, in fact, limit the effectiveness of AI models in preventing misuse and unlawful behavior.