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| Here's a look at today's AI briefing: - Elon Musk's AI company will release its first AI model to a "select group."
- The U.K. has ramped up its investment in two AI supercomputers.
- Apple CEO Tim Cook highlighted the company's AI investments during an earnings call.
- Former President Barack Obama helped draft President Biden's new AI policy.
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| 1 | | Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI, will debut its first AI model to a "select group" of users on Saturday. Musk didn't offer further details on the model or who its first users will be. More: - Musk has previously hinted at creating an alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT.
- Earlier this year, xAI signed a contract to train its own AI model on Oracle's cloud.
- "In some important respects, it (xAI's new model) is the best that currently exists," Musk posted on X today.
Zoom out: - The CEO unveiled xAI, his AI company with a mission to "understand the true nature of the universe," in July.
- The company has hired a number of AI experts. Their LinkedIn profiles, as reviewed by CNBC, show involvement in projects like DeepMind's AlphaCode AI coding engine and OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 chatbots.
- In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, but he left the company's board in 2018.
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| 2 | | The U.K. government unveiled plans to boost funding for two AI supercomputers to £300M ($363.6M), up from £100M ($123.8M). One of the machines, Isambard-AI, will deliver around 200 FP64 PetaFLOPS performance, eventually ranking as the world's fifth highest-performing supercomputer. 
Details: Isambard-AI, set to be built in the city of Bristol by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, will cost £225M ($273.4M) and use over 5,000 of Nvidia's GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip units. Once completed, it will be the most advanced computer in Britain, running "10 times faster than the U.K.'s current quickest machine." The plan is to eventually link Isambard-AI with the other supercomputer, Dawn, a project by Dell and U.K. firm StackPC. Phase 1 of Dawn, currently the U.K.'s fastest AI supercomputer, is now up and running in Cambridge, with phase two launching next year. The bigger picture: The supercomputers, known as the "AI Research Resource," will support research to make advanced AI models safer, a hot topic at this week's global AI Safety Summit. The U.K. government is also banking on its two supercomputers, which should both be running by summer 2024, to make leaps in drug discovery, fusion energy, healthcare, and climate modeling. U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak noted that with AI models getting more powerful, the investment makes sure that British scientists have the right tools to create safe, advanced AI models. | | | |
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| 3 | | During Apple's Q4 earnings call, CEO Tim Cook said the company is "investing quite a bit" in AI technology but declined to go into detail about its latest generative AI efforts. Customers can expect to see ongoing product advancements driven by AI, Cook said. More: - Apple is going to develop generative AI "responsibly," the CEO added.
- During the call, Cook mentioned the company's existing AI technologies, saying they are "integral to every product we ship."
- These include Personal Voice and Live Voicemail in iOS 17, as well as Crash Detection on the iPhone/Apple Watch and Fall Detection and ECG on the Apple Watch, he said.
- Apple doesn't explicitly label the features as AI. Instead, it's focused on the consumer benefits, even though the underlying technology is still AI and machine learning, Cook said.
Zoom out: - Apple has ramped up its spending on AI technologies to millions of dollars per day, according to The Information.
- Apple's advanced LLM, internally named Ajax GPT, is reported to surpass OpenAI's GPT-3.5 in power.
- An Apple analyst says the company could bring generative AI to the iPhone and iPad as early as 2024.
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| 4 | | Former President Barack Obama helped craft President Joe Biden's new AI policy, per ABC News. The policy includes the AI executive order issued on Monday and a task force to research AI trends, among other efforts. More: - An Obama aide told ABC the former president assisted the Biden team with the plan, which aims to safeguard the U.S. against emerging AI threats.
- Obama met with congressional leaders as well as industry leaders, bringing up national security concerns and highlighting issues like bias and discrimination, the aide noted.
- Biden and Obama discussed AI during a June lunch and have held regular conversations, a White House official mentioned.
Zoom out: - The official also said Biden was given an AI demonstration in April that included an overview of ChatGPT.
- The president was shown AI-generated images of himself and his dog, Commander, and was exposed to deepfake videos of himself.
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| 5 | | Weekly roundup — The top AI stories you might have missed this week: - U.S. President Biden issued an executive order on Monday that places certain guardrails around the development and use of AI technologies. A key requirement is that companies developing AI models with national security concerns must report them to the government, providing details about testing and security measures.
- Nearly 30 world governments, including the U.S., EU, and China, have jointly signed a declaration recognizing the potentially catastrophic risks of AI. The Bletchley Declaration, unveiled on the first day of the U.K.'s AI Safety Summit, calls for international policies to tackle AI's risks, though it doesn't propose any specific AI regulations. The roughly 1,300-word document outlines some of the potential risks of advanced AI models and ways to mitigate them.
- A federal judge on Monday dismissed the majority of copyright claims filed by several artists against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt. While dismissing the suits against Midjourney and DeviantArt, Judge William H. Orrick permitted one infringement complaint against Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, to move forward.
- ChatGPT's global web traffic made a comeback in September, rising to 1.5 billion for the month after a decline in August, according to the latest Similarweb data. ChatGPT remains the top AI chat product, surpassing Bing.com in global traffic.
- AMD projects $2B in sales in 2024 from its GPU designed for AI tasks. On Tuesday, AMD unveiled its first-ever 2024 sales forecasts for the MI300 AI chip to investors.
- Google has reportedly agreed to invest $2B in AI startup Anthropic, per CNBC. Anthropic will receive $500M in cash upfront, with the remaining $1.5B to be disbursed over time.
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 | AI and technology writer | | Beth is an editor and writer of Inside's AI and Tech newsletters, with a career spanning journalism since 2007. She has written for publications including The Arizona Republic and USA Today and authored a book on the solar industry in 2016. Reach her at Beth.Duckett@yahoo.com. | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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