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This week’s tech headlines feature major updates: OpenAI’s ChatGPT user base soars, California enacts new AI regulations, and major tech updates are coming from Microsoft and other AI leaders. Here’s what you might have missed.
Emotion AI Raises Ethical Concerns as Business Software Trend Gains Momentum
Emotion AI is gaining traction in business software, with major companies like Microsoft and Amazon adopting it. However, the technology faces challenges related to accuracy, ethics, and regulatory issues from the EU and U.S. laws.
Announcing the release of GoEmotions, a new fully-annotated English-language text dataset for fine-grained emotion understanding, that includes a taxonomy of 27 distinct emotions and is suitable for a range of conversation understanding tasks. Learn at https://t.co/5hPoTTciAV pic.twitter.com/5JI7LMZFuA
— Google AI (@GoogleAI) October 28, 2021
OpenAI’s ChatGPT User Base Doubles in Less Than a Year
OpenAI’s ChatGPT has grown to over 200 million weekly users and is used by 92% of Fortune 500 companies. Despite strong competition, it remains a leader in AI chatbots, with potential new investors like Apple and Nvidia valuing the company at over $100 billion.
California Approves Bill Requiring Consent for AI Replicas of Deceased Actors
The California Senate has passed AB 1836, mandating consent from deceased performers’ estates for AI media usage, pending Governor Newsom’s approval. SAG-AFTRA supports the bill, which aims to tackle unauthorized AI use and deepfakes.
SAG-AFTRA Statement on Today's Passing of CA Assembly Bill 1836: "For those who would use the digital replicas of deceased performers in films, TV shows, videogames, audiobooks, sound recordings and more, without first getting the consent of those performers’ estates, …
1/3— SAG-AFTRA NEWS (@sagaftranews) August 31, 2024
OpenAI to Develop In-House AI Chips Using TSMC’s A16 Process
OpenAI is developing its own AI chips with TSMC’s upcoming A16 process, alongside Apple. The chips, planned for mass production in 2026, aim to enhance AI models like Sora, which creates videos from text and aligns with Apple’s strategy to boost its AI capabilities.
ChatGPT 4o is going to be integrated into Apple Intelligence. When the system knows you need a large language model that’s more current and has more info it will go out to ChatGPT. pic.twitter.com/A8fvHOBsR6
— Joanna Stern (@JoannaStern) June 10, 2024
Elon Musk’s xAI Colossus Supercomputer Comes Online With 100K Nvidia GPUs
Elon Musk’s xAI has launched Colossus, a supercomputer with 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs in Memphis. This will support training for the Grok AI chatbot and potentially Tesla’s Optimus robot, with plans to expand the system to 200,000 GPUs.
This weekend, the @xAI team brought our Colossus 100k H100 training cluster online. From start to finish, it was done in 122 days.
Colossus is the most powerful AI training system in the world. Moreover, it will double in size to 200k (50k H200s) in a few months.
Excellent…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 2, 2024
Microsoft Will Show the Future of Copilot at a September 16th Event
Microsoft will host a livestream on September 16th to unveil new features for Copilot AI and Microsoft 365, potentially including updates to Copilot Pro and a rebranding. The event will showcase the latest AI advancements as Microsoft competes with Google and Anthropic in the AI workplace space.
Ilya Sutskever’s Safety First AI Company Receives $1B in Funding
Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence (SSI) has raised $1 billion from investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. SSI, which focuses on safe AI development, aims to use the funds to expand its team and infrastructure.
US, UK, and EU Set to Sign Landmark International AI Treaty
The Council of Europe’s new AI treaty, emphasizing human rights, is set to be signed by the US, UK, and EU. It covers the entire AI lifecycle but lacks financial penalties for non-compliance and will start three months after five signatories ratify it.
Europe’s AI Act is going global.
I welcome today’s signature of the Council of Europe Framework Convention on AI.
In line with our AI Act, it provides a common approach for trustworthy, innovative AI compatible with democratic values.
The EU will continue to champion…
— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) September 5, 2024
Nvidia-Backed Sakana AI to Build AI Lab in Japan
Sakana AI, backed by Nvidia and funded with $100 million, is opening a major AI lab in Japan. The lab will focus on advancing AI research, infrastructure, and community development, leveraging Nvidia’s technology to enhance Japan’s AI capabilities.
Australian Government Announces ‘Guardrails’ to Regulate AI
Australia is introducing 10 voluntary AI guidelines and considering making them mandatory in high-risk cases. Industry Minister Ed Husic stressed the need for trust and protection, noting AI could add up to $115 billion to the economy and create 200,000 jobs by 2030.
YouTube Will Help Creators Spot Deepfakes That Use Their Faces
YouTube is introducing AI tools to detect deepfakes and manage unauthorized use of artists’ likenesses. New features will help creators identify and remove AI-generated content involving their faces or voices, and a pilot for AI-simulated singing detection is planned for early next year.
Microsoft-Inflection AI Partnership Cleared by UK Regulator
The UK CMA has approved Microsoft’s $650 million partnership with Inflection AI, allowing Microsoft to hire former Inflection employees and access its AI models. The CMA found Inflection AI’s market impact minimal and not competitive with Microsoft’s chatbots. This follows Microsoft’s previous regulatory win with Mistral AI.
We’ve cleared Microsoft’s arrangements with #Inflection which includes the hiring of former Inflection employees.
Joel Bamford, our Executive Director of Mergers, discusses the process leading up to the decision.
Read the article: https://t.co/DYcbJAUoTy#Microsoft #AI
— Competition & Markets Authority (@CMAgovUK) September 4, 2024
