Coalition of news publishers sue Microsoft and OpenAI
A coalition of major news publishers has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, accusing the tech giants of unlawfully using copyrighted articles to train their generative AI models without permission or payment. First reported by The Verge, the group of eight publications owned by Alden Global Capital (AGC) – including the Chicago Tribune, New […]
FT and OpenAI ink partnership amid web scraping criticism
The Financial Times and OpenAI have announced a strategic partnership and licensing agreement that will integrate the newspaper’s journalism into ChatGPT and collaborate on developing new AI products for FT readers. However, just because OpenAI is cozying up to publishers doesn’t mean it’s not still scraping information from the web without permission. Through the deal, […]
OpenAI faces complaint over fictional outputs
European data protection advocacy group noyb has filed a complaint against OpenAI over the company’s inability to correct inaccurate information generated by ChatGPT. The group alleges that OpenAI’s failure to ensure the accuracy of personal data processed by the service violates the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union. “Making up false information […]
Igor Jablokov, Pryon: Building a responsible AI future
As artificial intelligence continues to rapidly advance, ethical concerns around the development and deployment of these world-changing innovations are coming into sharper focus. In an interview ahead of the AI & Big Data Expo North America, Igor Jablokov, CEO and founder of AI company Pryon, addressed these pressing issues head-on. Critical ethical challenges in AI […]
Microsoft unveils Phi-3 family of compact language models
Microsoft has announced the Phi-3 family of open small language models (SLMs), touting them as the most capable and cost-effective of their size available. The innovative training approach developed by Microsoft researchers has allowed the Phi-3 models to outperform larger models on language, coding, and math benchmarks. “What we’re going to start to see is […]
Microsoft to forge AI partnerships with South Korean tech leaders
Microsoft is set to host top executives from South Korea’s leading technology firms next month to strengthen its AI partnerships. The high-level meeting, dubbed the MS CEO Summit 2024, will be held on 14 May 2024 and feature Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates and Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella. They will engage in closed-door discussions with […]
Meta raises the bar with open source Llama 3 LLM
Meta has introduced Llama 3, the next generation of its state-of-the-art open source large language model (LLM). The tech giant claims Llama 3 establishes new performance benchmarks, surpassing previous industry-leading models like GPT-3.5 in real-world scenarios. “With Llama 3, we set out to build the best open models that are on par with the best […]
Mixtral 8x22B sets new benchmark for open models
Mistral AI has released Mixtral 8x22B, which sets a new benchmark for open source models in performance and efficiency. The model boasts robust multilingual capabilities and superior mathematical and coding prowess. Mixtral 8x22B operates as a Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (SMoE) model, utilising just 39 billion of its 141 billion parameters when active. Beyond its efficiency, the […]
US and Japan announce sweeping AI and tech collaboration
The US and Japan have unveiled a raft of new AI, quantum computing, semiconductors, and other critical technology initiatives. The ambitious plans were announced this week by President Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio following Kishida’s Official Visit to the White House. While the leaders affirmed their commitment across a broad range of areas […]
Hugging Face launches Idefics2 vision-language model
Hugging Face has announced the release of Idefics2, a versatile model capable of understanding and generating text responses based on both images and texts. The model sets a new benchmark for answering visual questions, describing visual content, story creation from images, document information extraction, and even performing arithmetic operations based on visual input. Idefics2 leapfrogs […]
