AI Reading for Wednesday February 12

Feb 12, 2025

In a Reuters AI case with potentially huge implications, a judge held (reasonably) that fair use cannot apply when AI is used to create a market substitute - WIRED

Time to Worry About DOGE’s AI Plans - The Atlantic

The bid for OpenAI's nonprofit is top-tier M&A trolling by Musk, as it complicates OpenAI's fundraising by likely altering the cost of equity for new investors - Bloomberg

Sam Altman Dismisses Elon Musk’s "Bid" to Buy OpenAI in Letter to Staff - WIRED

Apple partners with AliBaba, whose shares soar - The Information

Perplexity is offering AI search powered by o3-mini, DeepSeek R1, or its own internally optimized Sonar variant of Llama - Analytics India Magazine

Inference chip company Groq gets $1.5b from Saudi Arabia - Reuters

Perplexity partners with inference chip maker Cerebras. - VentureBeat

TBH I would expect M&A in this inference space, but the startups are probably looking for big paydays and the hyperscalers may prefer to invest in internally developed chips.

Dario Amodei calls for greater focus and urgency, since AI will soon create countries of geniuses and policy coordination will be required.

In a mere decade 'everyone on Earth will be capable of accomplishing more than the most impactful person can today' says OpenAI boss Sam Altman - pcgamer

Don’t underestimate the capacity of Silicon Valley weirdo TESCREAL philosophies, which birthed SBF and FTX and Bitcoin itself to completely crater humanity. - Washington Post

TESCREAL. Don’t be speciesist, said Larry Page.

Number go up focus and 'transhuman' focus over humanism, allows you to ignore all of tech's very real problems and just build stuff because it’s cool and lucrative.

Techbroligarchy means never having to say you're sorry your AI crashes cars, or you unplugged someone's oxygen or HIV treatment.

OpenAI Operator can't beat CAPTCHAs yet - Hacker Noon

How Did DeepSeek Build Its A.I. With Less Money? - NY Times

No mention of distillation, possibly other IP shenanigans, or that they had a lot of money, or China breaching OpenAI in a security incident. There are a lot of Klaus Fuchses out there.

Berkeley team claims to beat o1 with a 1.5b parameter distilled model by leveraging DeepSeek - Notion