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Elon Musk denies report indicating his AI startup, xAI, has raised $500M in funding
Elon Musk this weekend denied a report that his artificial intelligence startup, called xAI Corp., has secured $500 million in funding, as part of a goal to raise a $1 billion investment. The billionaire entrepreneur (pictured) posted on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, that “This is simply not accurate” in response to an ...
Arizona State University to use OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise, hoping to enhance learning
OpenAI has agreed to make its most advanced generative artificial intelligence models available to students at Arizona State University. ASU announced the partnership today, saying that the agreement will give its students unrestricted access to ChatGPT Enterprise. The school told CNBC it plans to use the technology for teaching, research and to aid students in ...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai warns more job cuts will be necessary to achieve ‘ambitious goals’ this year
Google LLC has already made a number of layoffs in 2024 and there are likely to be more on the way this year, as the company refocuses its investments on areas such as artificial intelligence. In a memo on the company’s 2024 priorities that was sent to employees Wednesday night and later leaked to The ...
Meta plans to buy 350K Nvidia GPUs to build artificial general intelligence
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg today revealed that his company is planning to snap up about 350,000 high-end H100 graphics processing units from Nvidia Corp. to provide the computing power to advance its goals in a new area of artificial intelligence. The company is striving to become a leader in the area of artificial ...
DigitalOcean debuts Nvidia H100 GPU instances to expand access to advanced computing for AI workloads
The developer-focused cloud computing infrastructure company DigitalOcean Holdings Inc. said today it’s making Nvidia Corp.’s most advanced H100 tensor core graphics processing units available to small and medium-sized businesses via its Paperspace platform. The move will enable SMBs and startups to access the critical infrastructure required to develop next-generation applications powered by artificial intelligence, which ...
Intel and Nvidia shine in Gartner’s latest global semiconductor revenue rankings
Global semiconductor market revenues fell by 11% in 2023, to just $533 billion, driven by a steep decline in the price of memory chips. That allowed Intel Corp. to reclaim its position as the world’s top semiconductor supplier in terms of revenue, surpassing Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., which came in first one year earlier. Nvidia ...
Google’s DeepMind builds hybrid AI system to solve complex geometry problems
Researchers at DeepMind, the artificial intelligence research division of Alphabet Inc., have created software that’s able to solve difficult geometry proofs that are often used to test the brightest high school students in the International Mathematical Olympiad. The new system, which was outlined in the scientific journal Nature, is said to be a significant advance ...
Apple told once again to stop selling patent-infringing smartwatches after appeals court ruling
Apple Inc. will again be forced to stop selling its smartwatch devices fitted with blood oxygen sensors, following a ruling today by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The court did not rule on Apple’s bid to overturn a U.S. International Trade Commission ban on selling its smartwatches in the U.S., but ...
Samsung S24 Galaxy phone to integrate Google’s Gemini AI models
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s upcoming new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S24 series, will be the among the first devices in the world to integrate Google Cloud’s most advanced generative artificial intelligence models, the companies said in an event today. The Samsung Galaxy S24 smartphone series was announced at Samsung’s Unpacked event in San Jose today, ...
As generative AI takes over the cloud, 2024 will be a pivotal year
Cybersecurity firm Wiz Inc.’s latest research highlights the explosive adoption rate of managed artificial intelligence services and self-hosted AI tools in the cloud. The impressive growth of AI is being driven by the rise of generative AI models such as ChatGPT, which has made the technology almost as popular as the open-source Kubernetes software that ...