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Proton debuts privacy-focused alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Word that rejects AI assistance
Swiss privacy technology company Proton AG is looking to challenge Google LLC and Microsoft Corp. with the launch of its new word processing tool and document editor, Docs in Proton Drive. Announced today, the new offering looks and feels like Google Docs, with many of the same document creation features used by millions of office ...
Report: China leads the world in generative AI patents
Data from the United Nations shows that China is far ahead of any other country in terms of generative artificial intelligence inventions, having filed six times as many patents as the U.S. The World Intellectual Property Organization, which operates a global system for countries to share recognition of patents, said in a report that more ...
Figma disables new AI tool that repeatedly cloned Apple’s Weather app
The collaborative design software company Figma Inc. has quickly disabled its recently launched generative artificial intelligence-powered application design tool after it blatantly copied the look and style of Apple Inc.’s Weather application on numerous tests. The new feature, called “Make Design,” leans on generative AI and large language models to spin up full-fledged applications for ...
Generative AI coding assistant startup Magic AI looking to raise $200M at $1.5B valuation
The generative artificial intelligence-powered coding startup Magic AI Inc. is reportedly hoping to raise more than $200 million in a new funding round that will bring its value to $1.5 billion. The talks are ongoing just months after the company closed on a $23 million Series A round of funding. Reuters cited three unnamed sources today as ...
Anthropic launches new program to fund creation of more reliable AI benchmarks
Generative artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC wants to prove that its large language models are the best in the business. To do that, it has announced the launch of a new program that will incentivize researchers to create new industry benchmarks that can better evaluate AI performance and impact. The new program was announced in ...
France poised to slap Nvidia with antitrust charges stemming from its AI dominance
French antitrust regulators are reportedly on the verge of slapping Nvidia Corp. with charges that allege it has engaged in anticompetitive practices regarding its domination of the artificial intelligence computing industry. Nvidia has emerged as the world’s foremost supplier of graphics process units and high-speed networking gear that’s required to build the massive clusters required ...
Automotive lifecycle data startup Solera files for IPO, seeking to raise $1.5B
Automotive data software startup Solera Corp. filed paperwork for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and and Exchange Commission on Friday, confirming an earlier report from Bloomberg that first revealed its IPO plans. The filing is another sign of investors’ slowly growing enthusiasm for first-time share offerings, following a spate of successful public ...
SK Hynix announces $75B investment to boost AI chipmaking business
SK Group, the parent of South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix Inc., said today it’s planning to invest $74.6 billion into its chip business over the next three years, while setting aside an additional $58 billion especially for artificial intelligence-related technologies and shareholder returns. The new investment is apparently in addition to the $90 billion ...
OpenAI’s CriticGPT uses generative AI to spot errors in generative AI’s outputs
OpenAI’s latest innovation is called CriticGPT, and it was built to identify bugs and errors in artificial intelligence models’ outputs, as part of an effort to make AI systems behave according to the wishes of their creators. Traditionally, AI developers use a process known as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback or RLHF to help human ...
Meta’s new LLM Compiler could transform the way software is compiled and optimized
Meta Platforms Inc.’s artificial intelligence research team said today it’s open-sourcing a suite of robust AI models called the Meta Large Language Model Compiler. According to the researchers, it can transform the way developers go about code optimization for LLM development, making the process faster and more cost-efficient. In a blog post, Meta’s systems research ...