AI development in China and U.S.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a pivotal battleground in the technological race between China and the United States. “AI is expected to become a crucial component of economic and military power in the near future,” Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2023 stated. Both countries are significantly investing in AIRead More →

U.S. AI Safety Inspection

On Thursday 29th August 2024, the U.S. AI Safety Institute announced a testing and evaluation agreement with OpenAI and Anthropic This agreement reportedly grants the institute access to significant new AI models from each company before and after their public release. Recently, several AI developers and researchers have voiced concernsRead More →

AI enabled local device

Microsoft announced on Wednesday 21st August 2024 that it will release the contentious Recall AI search feature for Windows users to test starting in October Recall captures screenshots of on-screen activity, enabling users to search for previously seen information. Security experts raised immediate concerns about the potential risks of WindowsRead More →

Magazine AI data

OpenAI has partnered with the global magazine conglomerate Condé Nast to enable ChatGPT and its search engine, SearchGPT, to showcase content from renowned publications such as Vogue, The New Yorker and GQ. The agreement represents the most recent in a series of deals made by OpenAI with prominent media companies.Read More →

AI competition

Microsoft’s list of competitors, which is updated regularly, now features OpenAI, previously a long-term strategic ally. This development follows OpenAI’s announcement of a search engine prototype. As OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider, Microsoft leverages OpenAI’s AI models for products aimed at commercial clients and consumers. Microsoft, OpenAI’s largest investor, has reportedlyRead More →

A new powerful search engine

OpenAI on Thursday 25th July 2024 announced a prototype of its search engine, called SearchGPT, which aims to give users “fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources.” The company has announced plans to eventually incorporate the tool, presently in testing with a select user group, into its ChatGPT chatbot. TheRead More →

Chatbot

Anthropic, a rival to OpenAI, unveiled Claude 3.5 Sonnet on Thursday, touting it as their most advanced AI model to date. Claude has joined the ranks of widely used chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. Founded by former OpenAI research leaders, Anthropic has secured backing from major techRead More →

GPU power for AI

Nvidia, traditionally recognised within the gaming community for its graphics chips, has become the world’s most valuable publicly traded company. On Tuesday 18th June 2024, Nvidia’s shares rose by 3.6%, increasing its market cap to $3.34 trillion and overtaking Microsoft, now valued at $3.32 trillion. Earlier in the month, Nvidia’sRead More →

Ai microchip

While Nvidia continues to dominate the AI chip market headlines, Infineon, a German semiconductor company, is also making waves. Infineon is capitalizing on the AI surge, aiming to generate billions in revenue through the sale of premium chips. As AI applications proliferate, encompassing data centre servers and integrated chipsets forRead More →

Ai microchip

Intel announced its new Xeon 6 processors at the Computex tech conference in Taiwan on Tuesday 4th June 2024. This announcement coincides with the recent launches of new artificial intelligence chips by rivals Nvidia and AMD on Sunday and Monday 2nd and 3rd June 2024 – as they compete forRead More →

AI net

ThousandEyes, Cisco’s internet monitoring division, has introduced a new suite of AI-driven features known as Digital Experience Assurance, or DXA, on Tuesday 4th June 2024. The firm asserts that this new AI technology will allow customers to not only monitor but also automatically address issues affecting network quality. Describing itselfRead More →

Bitcoin mining

Bitcoin miners have been diversifying operations into artificial intelligence (AI) due to several key factors. Since Bitcoin halving, miners have been searching for more lucrative income streams as AI and crypto industries collide. Revenue shift The revenue from crypto mining, especially Bitcoin, has significantly decreased in recent months. After the ‘BitcoinRead More →

AI art

Microsoft is promoting new computers equipped with advanced chips, engineered to operate the new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities embedded in the Windows operating system. On Monday 20th May 2024, Microsoft unveiled a Surface Laptop and a Surface Pro tablet, both featuring a Qualcomm chip capable of executing AI tasks bothRead More →

AI Chatbot Gemini

Google is advancing the frontiers of artificial intelligence (AI) with its new release, Gemini 1.5 Flash, which is set to transform our online information interactions. Unveiled at Google I/O 2024, this latest model enhances sophisticated features with rapid performance and efficiency. The new AI Chatbot was unveiled on 15th MayRead More →

Chatbot GPT-4o

OpenAI has just unveiled its latest flagship model, GPT-4o. This remarkable model can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time. Multimodal interaction GPT-4o accepts any combination of text, audio, and image as input and generates corresponding outputs in any of these modalities. It’s a step toward more natural human-computer interaction. Fast response timeRead More →

NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) has experienced remarkable growth over the past decade. Historical stock price trends As of 10th May 2024, NVIDIA’s closing stock price stood at: $898.78 NVIDIA’s stock reached an all-time high of $950.02 on 25th March 2024. The 52-week high stands at $974.00, which is 9.7% higher thanRead More →

Video

The new AI tool from OpenAI named Sora, can generate realistic videos from text prompts. OpenAI has developed a new AI tool named Sora that can generate highly detailed videos of up to 60 seconds from descriptive text prompts. The tool has raised concerns about its potential misuse, particularly inRead More →

AGI

That’s reassuring then, and they are creating it Leaders at some of the world’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies are expecting a form of AI on a par with, or even exceeding human intelligence to arrive sometime in the near future. But what it will eventually look like and howRead More →

AI

U.S. news organisation the New York Times is suing ChatGPT-owner OpenAI over claims its copyright was infringed to train the system. The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft for using its news stories to train chatbots without permission or compensation. The lawsuit claims that the defendantsRead More →

AI micro chip

Intel’s new chip will go head-to-head with Nvidia and AMD Intel unveiled new computer microchips on Thursday 14th December 2023, including Gaudi3, a chip for generative AI software. Intel also announced Core Ultra chips, designed for Windows laptops and PCs, and new fifth-generation Xeon server chips. Intel’s server and PCRead More →

AI microchips

Meta, OpenAI, and Microsoft said they will use AMD’s newest AI chip, the Instinct MI300X. An indication that tech companies want alternatives to the expensive Nvidia graphics processors that have been essential for artificial intelligence (AI). If the MI300X is good enough and inexpensive enough when it starts shipping earlyRead More →

OpenAI

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s chatbot is back online after experiencing a brief but major outage Wednesday am, 8th November 2023. The chatbot began returning errors before 9 a.m. ET, affecting OpenAI’s API users, which are used by more than two million developers. ChatGPT users were also told that ‘ChatGPT is at capacityRead More →