Artificial intelligence will match the collective intelligence of “a country of geniuses” within two years, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned today in a sharp critique of this week’s AI Action Summit in Paris. His timeline — targeting 2026 or 2027 — marks one of the most specific predictions yet from a major AI leader about the technology’s advancement toward superintelligence.
Amodei…
Decoding OpenAI’s Super Bowl ad and Sam Altman’s grandiose blog post
February 11, 2025
If you were in one of the nearly 40 million U.S. households that tuned into the NFL Super Bowl LIX this year, in addition to watching the Philadelphia Eagles trounce the Kansas City Chiefs, you may have caught an advertisement for OpenAI.
This is the company’s first Super…
AI is reshaping the modern workplace, but until now, its impact on individual tasks and occupations has been difficult to quantify. A new report from Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude, offers a data-driven view of how businesses and professionals are integrating AI…
There’s almost never a dull moment on the AI beat, and today was no exception: The Wall Street Journal this afternoon reported that a consortium of private investors led by the world’s wealthiest man, the multi-company owning Elon Musk, had presented a bid of $97.4 billion to OpenAI’s non-profit board of directors to acquire the for-profit subsidiary of the company led by former co-founder…
The Super Bowl is one of the largest sports entertainment events on the planet, bringing in more than a hundred million viewers and a billion in revenue.
But for NFL teams and sports entertainment in general, there is a long road to championship as franchises aim to build…
OpenAI is now showing more details of the reasoning process of o3-mini, its latest reasoning model. The change was announced on OpenAI’s X account and comes as the AI lab is under increased pressure by DeepSeek-R1, a rival open model that fully displays its reasoning…
Begin with problems, sandbox, identify trustworth vendors — a quick guide to getting started with AI
February 10, 2025
With 77% of companies already using or exploring the use of AI, and more than 80% claiming it’s a top priority, leaders are eager to get maximum value from the technology. However, the volume of solutions available and onslaught of marketing messages accompanying them can make finding a clear path difficult. Here are some guidelines to help you evaluate AI tools’ capabilities and determine the…
French AI startup Mistral launches Le Chat mobile app for iPhone, Android — can it take enterprise eyes off DeepSeek?
February 7, 2025
While the AI market has in recent days seemed to collapse around DeepSeek and OpenAI, there are of course many other teams of brilliant engineers fielding large language models (LLMs) that are worth a look as users and enterprises seek to use the latest and greatest. Take…
GitHub Copilot previews agent mode as market for agentic AI coding tools accelerates
February 7, 2025
Agentic AI is all the rage today across multiple sectors, including application development and coding. Today at long last, GitHub has joined the agentic AI party with the launch of GitHub Copilot agent mode. The promise of agentic AI in development is about enabling…
Hugging Face brings ‘Pi-Zero’ to LeRobot, making AI-powered robots easier to build and deploy
February 7, 2025
Hugging Face and Physical Intelligence have quietly launched Pi0 (Pi-Zero) this week, the first foundational model for robots that translates natural language commands directly into physical actions.
“Pi0 is the most advanced vision language action model,” Remi Cadene, a principal research scientist at Hugging Face, announced in an X post that quickly gained attention across the AI community.
