Mira Murati is a prominent AI engineer who worked on several of OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT, which started the AI revolution in late 2022. She served as the company’s CTO until her departure last September, and you might remember her as the interim CEO of OpenAI during the brief coup in late November 2023 that … Read more
With artificial intelligence companies exhausting publicly available content to train their models, new opportunities are emerging for content creators to monetise their unused footage. AI firms are offering YouTubers and other creators the chance to sell their surplus content for thousands of pounds, even as platforms enforce stricter rules on “synthetic” content in their databases. … Read more
YouTubers and other digital content creators are selling their unused video footage to artificial intelligence companies seeking exclusive videos to better train their AI algorithms, often netting thousands of US dollars per deal. OpenAI, Alphabet’s Google, Moonvalley and several other AI companies are collectively paying hundreds of content creators for access to their unpublished videos, … Read more
Chinese companies made their presence felt at the tech industry’s annual flagship event CES 2025, in terms of the number of participants and their smart products ranging from robotics and smart glasses to electric vehicles (EVs) and home appliances. Chinese companies made up about a quarter of the 4,500-odd exhibitors at the annual tech trade … Read more
Prompted by Alan Truly, generated by Bing / Bing Microsoft has had to roll back its latest update to its Bing Image Generation system, which installed the latest iteration of OpenAI’s Dall-E model, called PR16, after Bing users vociferously complained about a decline in image quality. Since the launch of Bing Image Creator last spring, … Read more
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and a prominent figure in artificial intelligence, is embroiled in controversy following allegations of sexual abuse. A lawsuit filed by his sister, Ann Altman, accuses him of sexual abuse spanning nearly a decade during their childhood. The claims have sparked widespread attention, with Altman and his family vehemently denying … Read more
AI startups captured a record-high portion of the funding pie last year. According to PitchBook data released on Tuesday and obtained by Bloomberg, venture capitalists poured $209 billion total into U.S. startups in 2024 — and nearly half of that funding, or a record $97 billion, went towards startups focusing on AI. The amount raised … Read more
Geoffrey Hinton, the prominent data scientist known as the “Godfather of artificial intelligence,” is backing Elon Musk in his legal attempt to block OpenAI from switching to a for-profit company. Hinton, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics in October, is known for his work developing artificial neural networks, the foundation for AI. “OpenAI … Read more
TikTok owner ByteDance was China’s biggest investor in technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) in 2024, with its outlay almost matching the combined spending of rivals Baidu, Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings, according to new research. Beijing-based ByteDance, founded by Chinese entrepreneur Zhang Yiming, invested an estimated 80 billion yuan (US$11 billion) on capital expenditure … Read more
OpenAI For the finale of its 12 Days of OpenAI livestream event, CEO Sam Altman revealed its next foundation model, and successor to the recently announced o1 family of reasoning AIs, dubbed o3 and 03-mini. And no, you aren’t going crazy — OpenAI skipped right over o2, apparently to avoid infringing on the copyright of … Read more
