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Elon Musk’s xAI to open-source its Grok language model
Elon Musk announced today that xAI Corp., the OpenAI competitor he launched last year, plans to open-source its flagship large language model. “This week, @xAI will open source Grok,” Musk (pictured) wrote in an early morning post on X. Developers typically share open-source artificial intelligence models on Hugging Face, a GitHub-like website for hosting machine ...
Covariant develops video-generating AI model for powering warehouse robots
Startup Covariant today detailed RFM-1, a large language model that allows industrial robots to ask for instructions on how to perform a task when they can’t complete it on their own. The artificial intelligence model also lends itself to other tasks. According to Covariant, RFM-1 can generate short videos that depict industrial robots performing tasks ...
Report: Hackers used Ivanti vulnerabilities to breach two CISA systems
Hackers have gained access to two applications operated by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, The Record reported today. A CISA spokesperson confirmed the breach in a statement. According to the agency, the hackers gained access by using vulnerabilities in Ivanti Inc. products that it uses internally. Ivanti is a major provider of infrastructure ...
Cloud chip supplier Astera Labs seeking to raise up to $534M in IPO
Astera Labs Inc., a maker of networking and memory management chips for cloud providers, today detailed the terms of its initial public offering. The company originally filed its IPO paperwork last month. At the time, Astera disclosed that it plans to list on the Nasdaq but didn’t share key financial details such as its fundraising ...
Former Google engineer charged with stealing AI trade secrets for Chinese startups
A federal grand jury has indicted former Google LLC engineer Linwei Ding, aka Leon Ding, for allegedly stealing trade secrets from the search giant. The Justice Department unsealed the indictment on Wednesday. Ding, who was arrested earlier that day, is charged with four counts of theft of trade secrets. Those secrets relate to several key ...
Brevian launches with $9M in funding to simplify AI agent development
Brevian Inc., a startup that provides artificial intelligence agents for tasks such as investigating data breaches, today launched with $9 million in funding. TechCrunch reported that the round was led by Felicis Ventures. The deal is said to mark the venture capital firm’s largest-ever seed investment. Large language models are customizable, which allows users to ...
Inflection AI rolls out new large language model to its Pi chatbot
Inflection AI Inc. has switched its Pi chatbot to a new large language model, Inflection-2.5, that it says can nearly match the capabilities of GPT-4 across several key areas. The company detailed the upgrade today. It also shared new information about Pi’s recent user base growth, as well as its plans to make money from that ...
Google-backed GUAC cybersecurity tool becomes an OpenSSF project
The developers of GUAC, a tool for finding vulnerabilities in enterprise software, today announced that they have donated the project to the OpenSSF consortium. GUAC was released in 2022 by Google LLC, cybersecurity startup Kusari Inc., Citibank NA and Purdue University. OpenSSF, the consortium to which the project has been donated, launched two years earlier ...
Taalas raises $50M to develop chips optimized for specific AI models
Taalas Inc., a startup that plans to sell chips tailor-made for specific artificial intelligence models, has raised $50 million to support its commercialization effort. The company announced the raise on Tuesday. The funding was provided by Quiet Capital and Pierre Lamond, a prominent venture capitalist who backed several of the semiconductor industry’s early players and ...
Microsoft engineer flags Copilot Designer concerns as academics call for better AI risk research
A Microsoft Corp. engineer has written a letter to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission raising concerns about the company’s Copilot Designer tool. CNBC reported the development today. It comes about a day after more than 100 academics, tech executives and other experts published an open letter focused on the risks posed by advanced AI models. ...