Google has committed to investing up to $2 billion in Anthropic

Ts Yotov
October 28, 2023

💸 The proxy war in the artificial intelligence (AI) domain intensifies, as Google reportedly forwards a $2B investment to Anthropic. Tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are investing billions to ensure they have partial ownership of the leaders in the large language model space. These investments not only provide financial support but also access to infrastructure and resources needed for AI research and development.

📱 Humane's new device, Ai Pin, is an innovative combination of a gadget, wearable, and projector. It's estimated to cost $1,000 and may need a monthly data subscription. Equipped with a camera, speaker, and a variety of sensors, it offers smartphone-like capabilities including high speed and secure connectivity.

🛰️ NASA is funding a network of AI-driven space lasers designed to alter the course of space debris threatening operational spacecraft, even those carrying astronauts. This move is part of the solution to the mounting problem of orbital debris that endangers equipment and human life in space.

🏫 Stability AI, a major UK AI firm, is attending the UK Government's AI Safety Summit, sharing their experience in AI across image, language, code, audio, 3D, and video. The aim is to promote AI safety and maintain competitiveness in the sector.

🔢 Tired of ChatGPT's weak math? EleutherAI has developed an open language model for mathematics called Llemma. The repository contains training data, code, and details for submodules related to its mathematic models.

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