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OpenAI is devouring the media industry

May 30, 2024
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 journalism industry. Nonetheless, I am curious and concerned about the recent trend of OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and its underlying…
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Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6B to take on OpenAI

May 29, 2024
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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GitHub Accelerator fuels open source AI revolution, empowering startups to democratize access

May 29, 2024
GitHub has officially launched its 2024 Accelerator program, aiming to support and promote open source projects that are reshaping the technology landscape. The program, designed to provide financial backing, mentorship, and community-building opportunities, is already generating significant buzz among developers and enterprises alike. Stormy Peters, GitHub’s VP of Communities, emphasized the…
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Nvidia says 20,000 GenAI startups are now building on its platform

May 24, 2024
In its Q1 2025 earnings call on Wednesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlighted the explosive growth of generative AI (GenAI) startups using Nvidia’s accelerated computing platform. “There’s a long line of generative AI startups, some 15,000, 20,000 startups in all different fields from multimedia to digital characters, design to application productivity, digital biology,” said Huang.
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Stability AI sows gen AI discord with Stable Artisan

May 10, 2024
Stability AI is finally bringing its generative AI technology for text and video content to Discord. The new Stable Artisan Discord bot service officially launched today, enabling users to generate images with Stable Diffusion 3 (SD3) and video with Stable Video Diffusion (SVD) via a Discord bot. The idea of using Discord as an interface is one that rival gen AI image service Midjourney has had…
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