AI Reading for Wednesday June 26

OpenAI says they will begin a gradual rollout of advanced voice mode in another month, maybe. - X (formerly Twitter)

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Microsoft's AI chief discusses plans in interview. - Business Insider

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A small local Gemini model running in the development Canary Chrome, for predictive text or whatever you want it to do in your JavaScript apps and front-ends. - X (formerly Twitter)

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ASIC reportedly 20x faster at inference than H100s. - Tom's Hardware

Transformer inference chip startup raises $120m. - Yahoo Finance

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A ternary 1-bit AI model, plus putting it on an FPGA, reduces AI power consumption by 50x without loss of quality. (I already shared discussion of this preprint but media is covering it today.) - The Register

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What VCs are looking for in AI startups. - Business Insider

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Some companies walk back their AI hype as tools stumble. - Washington Post

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How Scale.ai pays people to help train AI. (although they have also gotten accused of nonpayment) - The Information

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Perplexity says they want to share ad revenues with sources, but their AI doesn't seem able to correctly attribute the sources they used. - The Atlantic

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AI consultants are making bank. - NY Times

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How terms of service are being updated to allow AI training. - NY Times

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When your building uses AI for property management. - NY Times

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Coatue's Laffont talks about AI, chips, and markets (video). - Bloomberg

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Protein AI company raises $142m ‘seed’ - TechCrunch

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First Neuralink Patient Says Implant Has Given Him Incredible Gaming Skills. - Futurism

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Looking forward to getting my brain hacked and filled with spiders or dildos or something. - Mashable

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Yann LeCun is tough but fair. - - X (formerly Twitter)

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