Tech & Society
AI Investors Hoard GPU Power: Investors are stockpiling AI chips to attract startups
Investors have been gathering AI chips to attract AI startups.
Tech & Society
Tech & Society
Meta Withholds Models From Europe: Meta restricts multimodal models in the European Union due to privacy concerns.
European users won’t have access to Meta’s multimodal models.
Tech & Society
Mini but Mighty: OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini offers big performance at a small price
A slimmed-down version of Open AI’s multimodal flagship packs a low-price punch.
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Image Generators in the Arena: Text-to-image generators face off in arena leaderboard by Artificial Analysis
An arena-style contest pits the world’s best text-to-image generators against each other.
Tech & Society
How Open Are Open Models?: Radboud University study ranks AI models on openness
The word “open” can mean many things with respect to AI. A new paper outlines the variations and ranks popular models for openness.
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Copyright Claim Fails in GitHub Case: Judge dismisses key arguments in AI copyright lawsuit against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI
A judge rejected key claims in a lawsuit by developers against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI, the first decision in a series of court actions related to generative AI.
Tech & Society
AI’s Path to Zero Emissions Is Cloudy: AI and data center boom challenges big tech's emissions targets
The boom in AI is jeopardizing big tech’s efforts to reach its targets for emissions of greenhouse gasses.
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Claude Advances the LLM Interface: Claude 3.5 Sonnet’s Artifacts feature makes it easier to build and code on-site
Claude 3.5 Sonnet lets users work on generated outputs as though they were independent files — a step forward in large language model user interfaces.
Tech & Society
Music Industry Sues AI Startups: Sony, UMG, and Warner Music sue Suno and Udio over alleged copyright violations
A smoldering conflict between the music industry and AI companies exploded when major recording companies sued up-and-coming AI music makers.
Tech & Society
Challenging Human-Level Models: Hugging Face overhauls open LLM leaderboard with tougher benchmarks
An influential ranking of open models revamped its criteria, as large language models approach human-level performance on popular tests.
Tech & Society
OpenAI Blocks China and Elsewhere: OpenAI to halt services in China and other U.S. 'nations of concern' by next week
OpenAI will stop serving users in China and other nations of concern to the U.S. government as soon as next week.
Letters
AI is a Tool, Not a Separate Species: Should AI developers be allowed to train models freely on the contents of the web? The lawsuit by Sony, Universal, and Warner against AI music generators Suno and Udio raises difficult questions.
On Monday, a number of large music labels sued AI music makers Suno and Udio for copyright infringement. Their lawsuit echoes The New York Times’ lawsuit against OpenAI in December.