AI Update - Friday, April 26, 2024
Seth Waters
Chief Growth Officer at Fortuna (3x Inc. 5000, 2x Vet100) | VP of Communications at Space Force Association NorCal | ?? Most Impactful CMO's 2024 | ?? Top 10 Hot Brands of the Year 2024
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Lights, camera, AI! Join me today as we shine a spotlight on the most exciting developments in artificial intelligence. It's your time to step into the tech limelight! ????
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The?OpenAI Startup Fund , a venture fund related to — but technically separate from — OpenAI that invests in early-stage, typically AI-related companies across education, law, and the sciences, has quietly closed a $15 million tranche.
? xAI, Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival, is closing on $6B in funding and X, his social network, is already one of its shareholders
xAI , Elon Musk’s 10-month-old competitor to the AI phenom OpenAI, is raising $6 billion on a pre-money valuation of $18 billion, according to one trusted source close to the deal. The deal – which would give investors one quarter of the company –? is expected to close in the next few weeks unless the terms of the deal change.
Sanctuary AI often isn’t mentioned in the same breath as humanoid robotics firms like Boston Dynamics, Agility, Figure and 1X, but the Canadian company has been operating in the space for some time. In fact, a new robot introduced on Thursday is actually the seventh-generation of its Phoenix line.
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Generative AI has captured the public imagination with a leap into creating elaborate, plausibly real text and imagery out of verbal prompts. But the catch — and there is often a catch — is that the results are often far from perfect when you look a little closer.
If there’s one?overarching takeaway from last night’s Rabbit R1 launch event, it’s this: Hardware can be fun again. After a decade of unquestioned smartphone dominance, there is, once again, excitement to be found in consumer electronics. The wisdom and longevity of any individual product or form factor — while important — can be set aside for a moment. Just sit back and enjoy the show.
AI is supercharging coding — and developers are embracing it. In a recent StackOverflow poll, 44% of software engineers said that they?use AI tools as part of their development processes ?now and 26% plan to soon. Gartner?estimates ?that over half of organizations are currently piloting or have already deployed AI-driven coding assistants, and that 75% of developers will use coding assistants in some form by 2028.
It is a universal truth of human nature that the developers who build the code should not be the ones to test it. First of all, most of them pretty much detest that task. Second, like any good auditing protocol, those who do the work should not be the ones who verify it.