Money raised, however, doesn’t guarantee success. AI startups take on unique challenges that call for more than the usual grit, market timing, and growth management. Training the LLMs that power services like ChatGPT or Midjourney’s AI image generator is one of the most computationally int...
But don’t hold your breath for AI’s Thomas Edison moment. Though the scientific popularity of AlphaFold has raised expectations for the potential of AI, it is still very early days in turning the research into actual products—whether new drugs or novel materials. Ina recent analysis, a tea...
OpenAI is uniquely positioned in the industry. It has a set of viable products, the best talent in the game, and great publicity, spun in large part by last year’s ChatGPT and DALL-E 2. And it’s much easier to make friends and share ideas when you have something to show. In 202...
OpenAI’s debut of its impressive Sora text-to-video tool has raised important questions. By Jonathan O'Callaghan Twitter Facebook Email The release of OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video AI tool last month was met with a mix of trepidation and excitement from researchers who are concerned about ...
technology with the potential to transform many of the ways we work and live. Traditionally, AI has been the realm of data scientists, engineers, and experts, but the ability to prompt software in plain language and generate new content in seconds has opened up AI to a much broader user ...
When it arrived in late 2022, ChatGPT made AI instantly and easily available for everyday people to access and try out. The software from OpenAI rocketed to 1 million users in just five days. James Martin/CNET "Generative AI has been the subject of intense consumer excitement, especially wi...
Leeder stresses, “It has the ability to really democratize the film industry.” A caveat remains: Widespread adoption of AI tools in the moviemaking process will depend largely on how courts land on novel legal issues raised by the tech. Among the few considerations holding back further de...
Botha worries that the amount of money raised by venture capitalists is far out of proportion to the number of good startups that actually exist. “There just aren’t hundreds of companies worth [tens of billions] in scale being built every year,” Botha says. The result, he says, could...
He emphasised the importance of India having its own models, even in an interdependent world. “India having its own frontier model doesn’t mean we don’t use OpenAI’s models or Llama. It has to be everything, but there must be a backstop,” they said. They stressed the need to dev...
this bubbling mixture of excitement and fear makes it hard to weigh the opportunities and risks. but lessons can be learned from other industries, and from past technological shifts. so what has changed to make ai so much more capable?...