Microsoft recruits DeepMind founder Suleyman, much of the Inflection team behind Pi. It’s an unusual acquihire-type deal, Inflection will continue but Microsoft will apparently make investors whole via strategic partnership dough. - Inflection.
Suleyman was placed on administrative leave by Deepmind/Google after the acquisition amid accusations of creating a toxic environment, he said he had been 'relentless' and he 'screwed up', parachuted into Greylock and then started Inflection. - Business Insider
Inflection had just released their big new LLM model, could probably have kept raising, maybe looked for a big payday from someone who wants an LLM play like Softbank or Apple, guessing there were behind-the-scenes issues. - SiliconANGLE
Another profile of Jensen Huang - Fast Company
Nvidia unveils platform for robots, including a high performance SoC, an LLM, and a simulation/dev environment, with participation of major robot companies like Boston Dynamics and Figure. - The Robot Report
1X humanoid robot performs tasks autonomously on wheels with facial pixel art expressions - YouTube
Steven Levy writes the story of the 8 Google employees who remade modern AI with transformers and “Attention is All You Need”. Which Google implemented with BERT, LaMDA etc. but somehow OpenAI and Microsoft have ended up being the big winners, and while Google napped on LLMs, all 8 moved on to fame and fortune elsewhere. - WIRED
We've progressed to the score-settling and witch-hunt phase of the Gemini saga, as ex-employees point figures and Fox names a bogeyman (or woman, natch) for the barbarian hordes to pillory - Fox Business
See also.
Google fined €250m by EU over dealings with media, including AI training.
Geoffrey Hinton video - "Will digital intelligence replace biological intelligence?" - YouTube
Infosys contributed $1b to OpenAI with little apparent benefit - Analytics India Magazine
Hippocratic AI's “Safety-focused LLM Constellation Architecture for Healthcare” a/k/a digital nurse chatbots - Popular Science
Saudi Arabia seems about to give Ben Horowitz $40b to invest in AI. From the astute investors behind Jared Kushner, who are also bringing us the ski slopes of 'Neom'. Will a16z relocate there? - NYT
A big wave of AI drugs is on their way - MIT Technology Review
Real-time greenhouse emissions detection with AI - The Cool Down
Deepfaking your dead father to comfort your ailing mother…not sure if feel-good story or recipe for elder abuse - South China Morning Post
Fitbit adds AI - PCMAG
Extropic emerges from stealth with superconducting AI chip - Tom's Hardware
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