Amazon aims to train 2 million people in gen- AI by 2025 for free

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📰 Quick News 📰

📖 Amazon's "AI Ready" initiative offers free education in generative AI, including project planning and using Amazon's own AI products, with the goal of enhancing skills for 2 million people by 2025.

💰 Amidst OpenAI's challenges, AI21 Labs attracted $53 million more to fund product development and recruit new staff, all while maintaining a $1.4 billion valuation in the competitive generative AI space.

📝 The 2023 report from O'Reilly reveals rapid enterprise adoption of generative AI at 67%, highlighting its use in programming, data analysis, and improving customer experiences but notes challenges in use case identification and legal issues.

☁️ NeevCloud announced the launch of India's first AI SuperCloud, designed to bolster self-sufficiency in artificial intelligence and supercomputing for Indian enterprises and startups - boosting 40,000 GPUs by 2026.

🏭TSMC is considering building a third chip plant in Japan for advanced 3-nanometer chips, potentially making Japan a major chipmaking hub. The company is already building one fab in Japan and has plans for a second facility.

🤖 X's owner, Elon Musk, teases an AI-based chatbot, Grok, with a distinct personality, as part of the most expensive subscription plan; Grok is set to offer conversational responses with wit, aiming to draw users with its unique approach to AI.

⚙️ NVIDIA announced its Spectrum-X AI networking tech will be in new Dell, HP, and Lenovo systems from 2024, making AI processes quicker by 1.6 times with efficient energy use, which means businesses can expect enhanced AI capabilities and productivity.

📚 Nerd section 📚

🧱 Building a Lego Technic sorter with Real-Time Advanced Object Recognition: The article discusses the development of a machine that can sort Lego Technic pieces using object detection and machine learning image recognition. The project aimed to enhance the efficiency of robotics lessons by minimizing human intervention in sorting tasks.

🌐 Web section 🌐 

So here (but not in the email version) we're adding AI-related stories that may be slightly less attention-grabbing, but still could move the needle in specific sectors and fields.

💸 Berlin's Merantix, an AI venture studio, is raising €100m to invest in AI startups. The fund will support new and existing companies, focusing on pre-seed and Series A rounds in Europe. The move comes amidst soaring valuations for AI startups.

🦾 Microsoft releases Orca 2, compact language models with advanced reasoning abilities, outperforming bigger models. These smaller models provide efficient AI capabilities and are openly accessible for research, benefiting companies with less computing power.

🎭 And now… the OpenAI drama news:

Sam Altman's potential move to Microsoft is uncertain, as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella expresses commitment to OpenAI and states that Altman's future depends on the OpenAI board and employees.

Sam Altman's potential reinstatement as OpenAI's CEO hangs in balance, with employee sentiment and board decisions pivotal. While the possibility of joining Microsoft looms, Altman's and Brockman's return to OpenAI could happen if existing board members who fired them resign.

OpenAI's board, after firing their CEO, proposed a merger to Anthropic and asked its CEO to take over, but he said no.

Before Emmett Shear became Interim CEO at OpenAI, Nat Friedman and Alex Wang were offered the job but declined, signifying OpenAI's difficulty in finding a new leader.

OpenAI's customers are considering defecting to rival companies, such as Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and Cohere, following concerns about the future of OpenAI after the firing of its CEO. Over 100 customers have reached out to Anthropic, while others have contacted Google Cloud, Cohere, and Microsoft's Azure service. OpenAI investors are still hopeful for CEO Sam Altman's return.

Over 700 of OpenAI's employees threaten to resign over the firing of executives, as Microsoft offers them roles in a new AI research group alongside the ousted OpenAI CEO.

Salesforce's CEO Marc Benioff has invited OpenAI researchers to join his company with the same pay following leadership changes at OpenAI.

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