๐ Global AI Regulation, Copilot Era, DBRX's Breakthrough
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Inside the shadowy global battle to tame the world's most dangerous technology. Clegg, a former British deputy prime minister, argued that policing AI was akin to building a plane already in flight โ inherently risky and difficult work. Harris trumpeted Washington's efforts to address the dangers of AI through voluntary business agreements as the worldโs gold standard. By Mark Scott via POLITICO
๐: Politico profile on AI lobbying has HILARIOUS anecdote: Tristan Harris showed lawmakersย META chatbot could give instructions to make bio-weapon Mark Zuckerberg was present, took out phone & got same instructions using Google - Louis Anslow (@LouisAnslow)
Microsoft's new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel. Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and AMD have all been pushing the idea of an โAI PCโ for months now as we head toward more AI-powered features in Windows. While we're still waiting to hear the finer details from Microsoft on its big plans for AI in Windows, Intel has started sharing Microsoftโs requirements for OEMs to build an AI PC โ and one of the main ones is that an AI PC must have Microsoftโs Copilot key. By Tom Warren via The Verge
๐: Microsoftโs new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel. Weโre still waiting for more details on the big AI PC push, but we have some basic software and hardware requirements now. - Tom Warren (@tomwarren)
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Inside the Creation of the World's Most Powerful Open Source AI Model. This past Monday, about a dozen engineers and executives at data science and AI company Databricks gathered in conference rooms connected via Zoom to learn if they had succeeded in building a top artificial intelligence language model. The team had spent months, and about $10 million, training DBRX, a large language model similar in design to the one behind OpenAIโs ChatGPT. By Will Knight via WIRED
๐: Scoop: Grok had a good run but thereโs a new open source model that beats out the rest: DBRX. I got an inside look at the impressive work that went into building it - Will Knight (@willknight)
Gemini in Google Messages beta rolling out for some. Following the announcement a month ago, Gemini is starting to roll out for some Google Messages beta users. Besides being a beta tester, you need to have RCS enabled, personal Google Account (18 and over, no Family Link), have English set (with French only offered in Canada) in 165+ countries, and have one of these newer devices. By Abner Li via 9to5Google
Elon Musk says all Premium subscribers on X will gain access to AI chatbot Grok this week. Following Elon Muskโs xAIโs move to open source its Grok large language model earlier in March, the X owner on Tuesday said that the company formerly known as Twitter will soon offer the Grok chatbot to more paying subscribers. In a post on X, Musk announced Grok will become available to Premium subscribers this week, not just those on the higher-end tier, Premium+, as before. By Sarah Perez via TechCrunch
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