Rumors Claim OpenAI Finished Training Giant “Bel” Model
An anonymous social media claim says OpenAI finished pretraining a 10-trillion-parameter model codenamed Bel, though nothing about it, including a claim about Anthropic's compute, is confirmed.
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OpenAI Publishes First Benchmarks for Its Jalapeño AI Chip
OpenAI's first custom inference chip, Jalapeño, delivered up to 1.9 times more work per watt and far lower latency than rival systems, with AI accelerating its...
Google Launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal, Joining AI Race for Law Firms
Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a specialized AI platform with agents for drafting and contract work, joining Anthropic and OpenAI in courting law firms.
Porsche Signs $1.46 Billion AI Deal, Sells Consulting Unit to TCS
Porsche signed a five-year, €1.25 billion AI partnership with Tata Consultancy Services, which is separately buying Porsche's IT consulting arm MHP for €320 million.
OpenAI Bans Russian Accounts Behind a Fake Think Tank
OpenAI banned ChatGPT accounts it says originated in Russia and built a fake "expert institute" using plagiarized academic work to manufacture false credibility online.
Apple’s New Mac Mini and Studio Are Built for Running AI Without the Cloud
Apple launched new Mac Mini and Mac Studio models with its M6 and M5 Ultra chips, explicitly built for developers running AI models and agents locally...
Nvidia in Talks to Back Perplexity at $30 Billion Valuation
Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity at a valuation above $30 billion, a 50% jump from a year ago, as the AI search startup's...
Alibaba Launches Wan3.0 Video AI a Day After $10 Billion Raise
Alibaba launched Wan3.0, an AI video model that turns business documents into 30-second clips, a day after raising $10.2 billion in Hong Kong's largest-ever follow-on share...
Hugging Face Explores a Sale That Could Value It at $13 Billion
Hugging Face is reportedly exploring a sale valuing it at $13 billion or more, nearly triple its 2023 valuation, though no deal has been reached and...
Lady Gaga’s Fiancé Trains AI on Living Human Skin Tissue
Michael Polansky's biotech startup Outer Biosciences keeps donated human skin alive for weeks and uses it to train an AI that predicts promising new skincare ingredients.
OpenAI Launches Policy Blog on AI and Concentrated Power
OpenAI launched AI Futures, a blog from a new Strategic Futures team arguing that AI's gravest risk is letting power escape the checks that have long...
ChatGPT Quietly Overhauled How It Searches the Web
ChatGPT began scoping far more searches to specific websites on August 8, a change that coincided with Reddit's citation share collapsing from 3.8% to 0.5%.