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AMD unveils CPU, NPU and GPU strategy for AI data centers

Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su talked about her company’s chip architecture strategy for AI data centers and AI PCs at the Computex trade show in Taiwan.She spelled out AMD’s plans for its central processing unit (CPU), neural processing unit (NPU) and graphics processing unit GPU architectures powering end-to-end AI infrastructure from the data center to PCs. AMD unveiled an expanded AMD…
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6079 aims to decentralize AI services with the help of AI Prize Fight esports tournament

The team at AI Layer has an interesting project called 6079, a reference to Winston Smith, the protagonist of the cautionary book 1984 by George Orwell, which warned readers of totalitarian rule. In similar fashion, the 6079 “free think” movement stands for the inherent right of every individual to think independently, to challenge without fear, to explore without limits. Oddly enough, this…
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Kinetix and Overdare put generative AI in gamers’ hands

Kinetix, the generative AI startup creating user-generated emotes (UGE) for video games, has teamed up with Overdare to put generative AI in the hands of gamers. Overdare is a user-generated content (UGC) platform from South Korean publishing giant Krafton. Today, the companies are placing the power of generative AI directly into the hands of gamers. Enabling completely new, previously impossible…
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OpenAI is devouring the media industry

Let’s make one thing clear up front: I’m generally pro-generative AI. At least, I am a lot more amenable to it — and use it myself daily in the form of parsing information via ChatGPT and generating images with it and Midjourney — than many of my peers in the…
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Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6B to take on OpenAI

Today, Elon Musk’s xAI startup announced a massive $6 billion round of funding. Confirming reports from April, the series B investment comes from the participation of multiple known venture capital firms and investors, including Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital…
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OpenAI begins training new frontier model — but GPT-5 won’t come for at least 90 days

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI this morning announced it has begun training its new “frontier model” and formed a new Safety and Security Committee led by current board members Bret Taylor (OpenAI board chair and co-founder of customer service startup Sierra AI, former Google Maps lead and former Facebook CTO), Adam D’Angelo (CEO of Quora and AI model aggregator app Poe), Nicole Seligman (former…
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