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Elon Musk’s AI Startup Intends To Raise $6 Billion And Compete With OpenAI

Elon Musk's xAI startup is in talks to raise up to $6 billion as the billionaire looks to global investors, particularly Hong Kong, to fund his OpenAI rival project. Representatives of the xAI company held negotiations with several potential investors in Hong Kong in the hope of raising up to $6 billion while valuing the startup itself at $20 billion - negotiations have not yet been completed, and Musk is still assessing investor sentiment. Sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East, investors in Japan and South Korea can also become partners of xAI. A US artificial intelligence company raising funds in Hong Kong could backfire due to geopolitical tensions between the US and China.

Google Introduced Lumier: An Advanced AI For Video Creation

Google Introduced Lumier: An Advanced AI For Video CreationGoogle demonstrated the operation of the Lumiere spatiotemporal diffusion model. The new AI tool can create amazingly realistic videos up to five seconds long. The neural network animates still images or just parts of them in response to text prompts in natural language.

Google Terminated Contract With Appen: The Company Which Helped To Train Bard AI

Google has stopped working with the Australian firm Appen, which prepared data for training artificial intelligence language models, including the Bard chatbot and the Google search engine. “The decision to terminate the contract was made as part of our ongoing efforts to re-evaluate and adjust many of Alphabet’s supplier partnerships to ensure that our interactions with suppliers are as effective as possible,” Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini said in a statement to The Verge. Appen notified the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), saying it had "no prior knowledge of Google's decision to terminate the contract."

Samsung Won’t Charge For Galaxy AI Features Until The End Of 2025

Samsung said all Galaxy AI features in the Galaxy S24 will be available for free until the end of 2025, a period of two years. After this, users will have to pay a subscription. But its price is unknown. “Galaxy AI features will be available free of charge until the end of 2025 on supported Samsung Galaxy devices. Different terms may apply to AI features provided by third parties,” Samsung said.

Vodafone Signs 10-Year Deal With Microsoft To Invest $1.5 Billion In AI

Vodafone and Microsoft have announced a long-term partnership to provide scalable digital platforms to more than 300 million businesses and consumers in Europe and Africa. We are talking about the development of such areas as generative AI, cloud services and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Scientists Proved With A Help Of AI That Fingerprints Are Not Really Unique

Artificial intelligence appears to have helped revolutionize forensic science. It turned out that our knowledge about the uniqueness of fingerprints was false. Everyone knows that every person has unique fingerprints. A lesser-known fact, but nevertheless very important for forensic science, is that each finger of each person also has a unique fingerprint. More precisely, everyone thought so until now. It turned out that this is not entirely true.

Rabbit R1: AI Assistant That Manages Applications Instead Of The User

At CES 2024, startup Rabbit presented an unusual device called R1. The gadget manages mobile applications using AI algorithms and is positioned as a future alternative to traditional smartphones. The Rabbit R1 is a standalone gadget with a 2.88-inch display, a rotating camera for taking photos and videos, and a scroll wheel for navigation and communication with the device's built-in AI assistant. The gadget is equipped with a MediaTek processor with a clock frequency of 2.4 GHz, 4 GB of RAM and a built-in 128 GB drive - all this is packaged in an attractive case, designed by the popular Teenage Engineering studio. The battery capacity is not specified, but the head of the startup, Jesse Lyu, assured that it will last “all day.”

All Future Windows PCs To Have A Dedicated Copilot Key

It's no secret that Microsoft is betting big on artificial intelligence, most recently launching a mobile app version of its Copilot AI bot. Now Microsoft has announced its latest AI innovation: a dedicated Copilot key on the Windows 11 keyboard. The Copilot key is the first major change to the keyboard layout for Windows computers in nearly three decades.

Samsung Has Officially Announced The Unpacked Date: January 17th

Samsung has officially announced its winter Unpacked presentation, which will take place immediately after CES in Silicon Valley across the street from the headquarters of its largest competitors. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, January 17 at the SAP Center, home of the NHL's San Jose Sharks. According to the company, the upcoming Galaxy Unpacked will feature "the latest mobile devices in the Galaxy portfolio." In its teaser video, the company explicitly states that “Galaxy AI is coming,” so we can expect Samsung-developed artificial intelligence to appear in smartphones in some form or another.

An AI Chatbot Was Taught To Hack Other AI Chatbots

Computer scientists from Nanyang Technological University have figured out how to compromise artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. To do this, they trained a chatbot to create hints that allow them to bypass the protection of other AI-based chatbots. Singaporean researchers used a two-pronged large language model (LLM) hacking method called Masterkey. First, they reverse engineered how LLMs detect and defend against malicious queries. Using this information, they taught LLMs to automatically learn and offer hints that allowed them to bypass the security of other LLMs.

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