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| Here's a look at today's AI briefing: - Nvidia announces H200 chip to power next generation of AI.
- Biden and Xi are expected to pledge ban on AI in autonomous weaponry.
- Google in talks to invest "hundreds of millions" in Character.AI.
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| 1 | | Nvidia announced its new H200 chip, the "world's most powerful GPU" for accelerating AI applications. The new GPU is an upgrade of Nvidia's popular H100 AI chip, which helped to train OpenAI's GPT-4. More: - Nvidia said the H200 is designed to "fuel the acceleration of generative AI and large language models,"
- The new generation is based on Nvidia's Hopper chip architecture and its H200 Tensor Core GPU.
- Nvidia said it's working with system manufacturers and cloud service providers to make the chips available starting in Q2 2024.
Key upgrades - The H200 is compatible with its H100.
- A key improvement is the H200's next-gen "HBM3" memory, delivering 141GB of memory at 4.8 terabytes per second.
- The H200 has 1.4x more memory bandwidth and 1.8x more memory capacity than its predecessor.
- Nvidia claims the H200 can deliver nearly double the inference speed for large language models compared to the H100.
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| 2 | | U.S. President Joe Biden and China's President Xi Jinping are expected to announce a deal limiting the use of AI in autonomous weapons and nuclear control systems. Sources told The South China Morning Post that the leaders could unveil the pledge when they meet on Wednesday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco. Details: One of the key topics on the conference agenda is the widespread adoption of AI in military technologies. According to the Post, Biden and Xi are expected to commit to an agreement that restricts the application of AI in autonomous weaponry, such as drones. The deal would also place restrictions on systems that control and deploy nuclear warheads, sources said. Zoom out: In February, the U.S., China, and other countries signed a non-legally binding statement backing responsible AI use by militaries. More than 60 countries pledged the commitment to creating and deploying military AI in compliance with "international legal obligations and in a way that does not undermine international security, stability, and accountability." Meanwhile, most of the world opposes the use of lethal autonomous weapons systems in warfare, according to research by Ipsos and the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. Sweden, Turkey, and Hungary respondents had the highest opposition to lethal autonomous weapons, while India had the strongest support. Adults in the U.S. and China, however, were less opposed to AI weapons than the world average. 
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| 3 | | Google is in discussions to potentially invest "hundreds of millions" in Character.AI, an AI chatbot startup known for its virtual versions of celebrities and historical figures. Character.AI is also in talks with VC investors to secure equity funding, potentially valuing the company at more than $5B. More: - Earlier this year, Character.AI closed a $150M funding round that valued the startup at $1B.
- Besides offering its own chatbots, users can also create their chatbots and AI assistants.
- Character.AI recently launched Character Group Chat, which lets subscribers create group chats with its themed AI chatbots and human participants.
- The company claimed 100 million monthly website visits within the first six months of its launch.
Zoom out: - To train its AI models, Character.AI uses Google's cloud services and tensor processing units (TPUs).
- Character was founded by former Google researchers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas in 2021. Both previously worked on Google's LaMDA AI conversational technology.
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| 4 | | OpenAI hopes to raise more funding from Microsoft and other investors, CEO Sam Altman told the Financial Times. "The vision is to make artificial general intelligence (AGI), figure out how to make it safe, and figure out the benefits," Altman said. More: - Speaking with FT, Altman said OpenAI's partnership with Microsoft and CEO Satya Nadella was "working really well."
- Altman expects "to raise a lot more over time" from Microsoft and others to cover the high costs of developing advanced AI models.
- The CEO said OpenAI's "revenue growth had been good this year," though the company is unprofitable as a result of the high training costs.
Zoom out: - Microsoft, a 49% owner in OpenAI, made a $10B investment in the company in January, followed by a March tender offer that placed OpenAI's valuation at $29B.
- Last month, news reports said OpenAI was in talks to sell employee shares in a move that would boost its valuation above $80B.
- If the valuation holds, OpenAI would rank among the world's most valuable privately held companies, surpassing Stripe and Shein.
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| 5 | | Google is suing five individuals accused of deceiving users into downloading a harmful version of its Bard AI software. The company claims the alleged scammers, likely based in Vietnam, used social media and ads to promote a phony Bard download, which contained malware instead of the expected chatbot. More: - In the lawsuit filed today in California, Google accused the scammers of exploiting trademarks such as "Google AI" and "AIGoogleBard" to entice users to install the malware.
- This allowed the defendants to steal victims' login credentials for social media platforms, according to the filing.
- In a blog post today, Google general counsel Halimah DeLaine Prado said scammers are seizing opportunities to exploit unsuspecting users as excitement grows around new generative AI tools.
- The company's lawsuit is part of Google's efforts to "establish needed legal precedents in emerging fields of innovation," DeLaine Prado wrote.
- She noted that Google issued more than 300 takedown requests since April before taking legal action.
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| 6 | | AI Events and Conferences: - AI World Barcelona: Generative AI Conference: Nov. 14-15, Barcelona, Spain.
- Cerebral Valley AI Summit 2.0, Nov. 15, San Francisco.
- MLCon 2023, Nov. 28-29, online or Berlin, Germany.
- AI & Big Data Expo Global 2023: Nov. 30-Dec. 1, London, U.K.
- The AI Summit New York: Dec. 6-7, New York, N.Y.
- AI Expo, Powered by AWS, Dec. 9, Austin, Texas.
- AAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Feb. 20-27, 2024, Vancouver, British Columbia.
- Nvidia GTC AI Conference & Expo: March 18-21, 2024, San Jose, California, and virtual.
- 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence: June 25-27, 2024, Singapore.
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- The SAG-AFTRA union has reached a tentative agreement with Hollywood studios that allows actors to consent and be paid for the use of AI replicating their likeness.
- YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley launched a new startup, EyeTell, which leverages AI for generating short-form video content. The startup secured an undisclosed amount of seed funding in a round led by A-Star Capital and SV Angel.
- Gen AI currently represents less than 1% of enterprise cloud spending, while traditional AI accounts for 18% of the $400B cloud market, according to a Menlo Ventures report.
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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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