AI Update - Monday, November 11, 2024

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? OpenAI reportedly developing new strategies to deal with AI improvement slowdown

OpenAI’s next flagship model might not represent as big a leap forward as its predecessors, according to?a new report ?in The Information.

Employees who tested the new model, code-named Orion, reportedly found that even though its performance exceeds OpenAI’s existing models, there was less improvement than they’d seen in the jump from GPT-3 to GPT-4.?

? From self-driving cars to AI that writes enterprise software: Cogna founder raises $15M

A founder who was an early mover in the race to build autonomous vehicles has raised $15 million for his next act: a startup that claims its AI can write enterprise software on its own.

? X is testing a free version of AI chatbot Grok

Social network X has so far limited its AI chatbot Grok (built by Elon Musk’s other company xAI) to its premium, paying users. However, the platform is seemingly preparing to open up the chatbot to free users.

Over the weekend,?several ?app?researchers ?and?users ?posted about a free version of Grok being made available to people in certain regions.

? TSMC reportedly halts advanced chip shipments to Chinese companies

After a chip manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company was?found inside a Huawei processor , the US Department of Commerce has ordered the company to halt shipments of advanced chips to Chinese customers,?according to a report in Reuters .

? OpenAI loses another lead safety researcher, Lilian Weng

Another one of OpenAI’s lead safety researchers, Lilian Weng, announced on Friday she is departing the startup. Weng served as VP of research and safety since August, and before that, was the head of the OpenAI’s safety systems team.

? ChatGPT told 2M people to get their election news elsewhere — and rejected 250K deepfakes

Now that the election is over, the dissection can begin. As this is the first election in which AI chatbots played a significant part of voters’ information diets, even approximate numbers are interesting to think about. For instance, OpenAI has stated that it told around 2 million users of ChatGPT to go look somewhere else.