AI Update - Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024 ep. 201
Seth Waters
Chief Growth Officer at Fortuna (3x Inc. 5000, 2x Vet100) | VP of Comms at Space Force Association NorCal | ?? Most Impactful CMO's 2024 | Editor-in-Chief at AI Insights
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Uber is expanding its fleet of gig workers and creating a new category: AI annotation and data labeling.
The ride-hailing company has started hiring contractors for a new AI and data labeling division called Scaled Solutions. These workers complete projects for?Uber’s internal business units?but are also serving outside customers including self-driving vehicle company Aurora Innovation and video game developer Niantic, according to reporting from Bloomberg.
A group appears to have leaked access to?Sora, OpenAI’s video generator, in protest of what it’s calling duplicity and “art washing” on OpenAI’s part.
With global content consumption rising and demand for non-English content surpassing that for English movies and shows, IMAX is leveraging AI to scale localization on its original content.
Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, wants to get into hardware — kinda sorta.
Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity’s founder and CEO,?posted?on X on Monday that he was considering making a “simple, under $50” device to “reliably answer” questions “voice to voice.” He promised that Perplexity would “definitely” sell such a device if the post got more than 5,000 likes.
Just last year, Inflection AI was as hot as a startup could be,?releasing best-in-class AI models?it claimed could outperform technology from OpenAI, Meta, and Google. That’s a stark contrast compared to today, as Inflection’s new CEO tells TechCrunch that his startup is simply no longer trying to compete on that front.
Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) biggest conference of the year is around the corner, and all signs point to it being an eventful one. AWS re:Invent 2024 kicks off in Las Vegas on Sunday, with sessions scheduled to run through December 6. A keynote address featuring AWS CEO Matt Garman will take place December 3, starting at 8 a.m. PT sharp.