AI & RoboticsNews

Elon Musk reveals xAI efforts, predicts full AGI by 2029

Elon Musk doesn’t want AI to replace humanity, rather he argues that AI requires humanity to actually be interesting and useful. In a meandering 90-minute Twitter Spaces audio conference today attended by over 30,000 listeners, the world’s richest man and leader of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter outlined his goal for his newest venture, xAI. Musk quietly started xAI in April in a bid to formally…
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Shutterstock signs 6-year training data agreement with OpenAI

Shutterstock has expanded its partnership with artificial intelligence pioneer OpenAI, aiming to cement its position as a premier provider of high-quality training data for OpenAI models. The company said this new six-year agreement will drive transformative capabilities for brands, digital media, and marketing companies. As part of the expanded collaboration, OpenAI has obtained a license to…
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Building out generative AI models: Insights from MosaicML

There’s still much naivete in the enterprise around building large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI systems — which is not surprising, as they’re only just emerging in the mainstream.  As described by Naveen Rao, founder and CEO of MosaicML, there are a whole span of options for enterprises to consider. They can use OpenAI and other existing models; they can fine tune those…
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DefenseNews

US Army takes out one-way attack drones in desert demonstration

WASHINGTON — To address the challenging threat of one-way attack drones seen most prominently in Ukraine over the past year, the Pentagon’s Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office tackled how to defeat them in a June demonstration at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. The JCO, together with the U.S. Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office, chose five companies to…
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