๐ AI Advances, OpenAI Shakeup, and Open Source Triumphs
Todayโs pick
Introducing the AI Alliance. Arvind Krishna, IBM Chairman and CEO: "The progress we continue to witness in AI is a testament to open innovation and collaboration across communities of creators, scientists, academics and business leaders. This is a pivotal moment in defining the future of AI.ย Meta
๐: IBM & Meta are launching the AI Alliance to advance *open* & reliable AI. The list of over 50 founding members from industry, government, and academia include AMD, Anyscale, CERN, Hugging Face, the Linux Foundation, NASA.... - Yann LeCun (@ylecun)
Effective Altruism Funded the 'AI Existential Risk' Ecosystem with Half a Billion Dollars. On November 17, 2023, Sam Altman was fired by OpenAIโs Board of Directors: Ilya Sutskever, Adam DโAngelo, and two members with clear Effective-Altruism ties, Tasha McCauley and Helen Toner.1 Their vague letter left everyone with more questions than answers. It sparked speculations, interim CEOs (e.g., Emmett Shear), and an employee revolt (of more than 700 OpenAI employees). The boardโs reaction was total silence. By Nirit Weiss-Blatt via AI PANIC
๐: The "AI Existential Safety" field did not arise organically. Effective Altruism invested $500 million in its growth and expansion. - Part 1: - Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD (@DrTechlash)
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Replicate Raises $40 Million For Its Library Of Open Source AI Models. Amid the AI land grab, open-source models whose code is available to anyone to modify and use are catching up to their proprietary counterparts. They're getting bigger (Meta's Llama 2 is trained on 70 billion parameters) and even getting better than ChatGPT at performing specific tasks. By Rashi Shrivastava via Forbes
๐: A promising startup called Replicate helps 2 million software developers today to tinker with 25,000+ open-source AI models. Now, it's raised $40 million from @a16z with @sequoia, @ycombinator, @nvidia and @heavybit. - Alex Konrad (@alexrkonrad)
Small Business Administration urged to cut ties with Big Tech. A federal agency tasked with supporting small businesses and entrepreneurs is facing fresh pressure from liberal advocacy groups to end its partnerships with tech giants, links that the critics argue undercut the Biden administrationโs efforts to rein in the behemoths. ย By Cristiano Lima via Washington Post
Amazon slams Microsoft's business practices in UK cloud industry probe. Amazon has joined Google in criticizing Microsoft over licensing agreements that restrict competition in the UK's cloud computing market, claiming Microsoft's business practices make it harder for customers to switch to alternative cloud providers or run competing services alongside Azure. ย By Jess Weatherbed via The Verge
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