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Azure AI vs AWS AI – The Ultimate Comparison Guide for Cloud AI https://blogs.emorphis.com/azure-ai-vs-aws-ai/ Azure AI, built on Microsoft’s robust cloud ecosystem, provides advanced tools like Azure Machine Learning, Azure OpenAI, and Cognitive Services to enable developers and enterprises to build, deploy, and manage AI models with minimal friction. On the other hand, AWS AI offers a broad array of tools such as Amazon SageMaker, Rekognition, Lex, and Comprehend, positioning itself as a flexible and scalable platform for deep learning and AI application development.
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Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is reportedly fundraising for a new AI startup Mira Murati, the OpenAI CTO who announced her departure last month, is raising VC funding for a new AI startup, according to Reuters. This startup will reportedly focus on building AI products based on proprietary models and could raise more than $100 million in this round. When she left, Murati wrote on X that OpenAI had “fundamentally changed how AI systems learn and reason through complex problems” in its recent releases. She said, “I’m stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration,” but didn’t offer details about her plans. Before joining OpenAI as VP of applied AI and partnerships in 2018, Murati worked at Tesla and Leap Motion. She was promoted to CTO in 2022 — and was even named interim CEO during co-founder and CEO Sam Altman’s brief ouster. Murati is among several OpenAI executives to leave recently; OpenAI’s chief research officer and research VP announced their departures hours after she did. A week later, OpenAI said it had raised $6.6 billion in the largest VC round of all time. https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/19/former-openai-cto-mira-murati-is-reportedly-fundraising-for-a-new-ai-startup/
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Perplexity is reportedly looking to fundraise at an $8B valuation AI search engine Perplexity is in fundraising talks and hopes to raise around $500 million at an $8 billion valuation, according to the Wall Street Journal. If a deal happens with those terms, it would more than double Perplexity’s valuation from its $3 billion valuation when it raised from SoftBank over the summer. The WSJ reports that the company currently receives about 15 million queries a day and brings in around $50 million in annualized revenue. Perplexity uses AI to help people search the web in a chatbot-style interface. Some news publishers have accused the company of unauthorized web scraping and plagiarism, and The New York Times has even sent Perplexity a cease-and-desist letter, but CEO Aravind Srinivas said he wants to work with publishers and has “no interest in being anyone’s antagonist here.” These fundraising talks come after OpenAI announced raising a $6.6 billion round at a $157 billion valuation. While products like OpenAI’s ChatGPT have blurred the line between chatbot and search engine, the company is moving more directly into search with SearchGPT. A Perplexity spokesperson declined to comment on the WSJ report. https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/20/perplexity-is-reportedly-looking-to-fundraise-at-an-8b-valuation/
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ChatGPT comes to Windows Today, OpenAI announced that it’s begun previewing a dedicated Windows app for ChatGPT, its AI-powered chatbot platform. Currently only available to ChatGPT Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu users, the app is an early version, OpenAI says, arriving ahead of a “full experience” later in the year. “With the official ChatGPT desktop app, you can chat about files and photos,” OpenAI writes. “This app brings you the newest model improvements from OpenAI, including access to OpenAI o1-preview, our newest and smartest model.” The ChatGPT app for Windows can run on most Windows 10 machines, but currently has certain limitations compared to other ChatGPT clients. It doesn’t support voice yet, including Advanced Voice Mode, and some integrations with OpenAI’s GPT Store aren’t functional. As with the ChatGPT app for macOS, the ChatGPT app for Windows lets you minimize it to a small “companion” window alongside other apps while you work. You can upload files and photos to it, have it summarize documents, and create images via OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 image generator. https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/17/chatgpt-comes-to-windows/
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Sam Altman’s Worldcoin becomes World and shows new iris-scanning Orb to prove your humanity Worldcoin, the Sam Altman co-founded “proof of personhood” project that scans people’s eyeballs, announced on Thursday that it dropped the “coin” from its name and is now just “World.” The startup behind the World project, Tools for Humanity, also unveiled its next generation of iris-scanning “Orbs” and other tools at a live event in San Francisco. Co-founder and CEO of Tools for Humanity, Alex Blania, said the project’s old name “just doesn’t work anymore,” potentially signaling the startup is looking to expand its identity beyond its original currency mission. (Eye-scanning initially was seen as a way to get access to Worldcoins, though the founders say this never happened.) OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, spends a good chunk of his time working on World, Blania told TechCrunch during a press conference, but said the two startups’ missions are independent from each other. However, Blania didn’t rule out that World’s crytocurrency could be incorporated into ChatGPT one day. “Well, he’s a co-founder and he’s been so from the beginning. So, we talk a couple times a week. He’s involved in all the decisions,” Blania told TechCrunch. “Of course, he’s focused on OpenAI,” Blania continued. “How tied is World’s success to OpenAI? I think actually not at all. I think these are two very separate missions, and I think AI is heading where it’s heading, and we think what we built here is very important infrastructure for the world, and that will not change.” https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/17/sam-altmans-worldcoin-becomes-world-and-shows-new-iris-scanning-orb-to-prove-your-humanity/
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Meta’s AI chief says world models are key to ‘human-level AI’ — but it might be 10 years out Are today’s AI models truly remembering, thinking, planning, and reasoning, just like a human brain would? Some AI labs would have you believe they are, but according to Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, the answer is no. He thinks we could get there in a decade or so, however, by pursuing a new method called a “world model.” Earlier this year, OpenAI released a new feature it calls “memory” that allows ChatGPT to “remember” your conversations. The startup’s latest generation of models, o1, displays the word “thinking” while generating an output, and OpenAI says the same models are capable of “complex reasoning.” That all sounds like we’re pretty close to AGI. However, during a recent talk at the Hudson Forum, LeCun undercut AI optimists, such as xAI founder Elon Musk and Google DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg, who suggest human-level AI is just around the corner. “We need machines that understand the world; [machines] that can remember things, that have intuition, have common sense, things that can reason and plan to the same level as humans,” said LeCun during the talk. “Despite what you might have heard from some of the most enthusiastic people, current AI systems are not capable of any of this.” LeCun says today’s large language models, like those which power ChatGPT and Meta AI, are far from “human-level AI.” Humanity could be “years to decades” away from achieving such a thing, he later said. (That doesn’t stop his boss, Mark Zuckerberg, from asking him when AGI will happen, though.) The reason why is straightforward: those LLMs work by predicting the next token (usually a few letters or a short word), and today’s image/video models are predicting the next pixel. In other words, language models are one-dimensional predictors, and AI image/video models are two-dimensional predictors. These models have become quite good at predicting in their respective dimensions, but they don’t really understand the three-dimensional world. Because of this, modern AI systems cannot do simple tasks that most humans can. LeCun notes how humans learn to clear a dinner table by the age of 10, and drive a car by 17 – and learn both in a matter of hours. But even the world’s most advanced AI systems today, built on thousands or millions of hours of data, can’t reliably operate in the physical world. https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/16/metas-ai-chief-says-world-models-are-key-to-human-level-ai-but-it-might-be-10-years-out/
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Sachin Dev Duggal | The Reason Behind Microsoft’s Use of Natasha on Teams Natasha is an AI tool that can listen to conversations within a company’s teams and quickly suggest solutions to problems. In contrast, Copilot is designed to enhance productivity by helping with tasks like taking notes. As tech companies compete to lead in artificial intelligence (AI), Microsoft is working hard to keep its edge, especially thanks to its partnership with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. Builder. ai provides AI solutions that help businesses create apps with little to no coding required, making the process faster and more affordable. However, Natasha serves a different purpose as an AI assistant. Sachin Dev Duggal, the founder of Builder. ai, believes it makes perfect sense for Microsoft to use both Natasha and Copilot together to improve overall functionality and support for users. For more details, visit: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/why-microsoft-is-deploying-builder-ais-natasha-on-teams-despite-launching-copilot-10751641.html #artificialintelligence #AI #technology #sachindevduggal #sachinduggal #builderAI #AInews #technews
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No Coding Skills Needed: Microsoft Partners with Builder.ai Led by Sachin Dev Duggal for Easy Apps Microsoft is making a big move to boost its artificial intelligence (AI) goals by investing in Builder. ai, a no-code app builder led by Sachin Dev Duggal. While the exact amount of the investment isn’t revealed, it involves buying a share of the company. This partnership aims to help Builder. ai grow faster by connecting its platform with Microsoft’s range of products. This includes using Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service and other AI tools, making it easier for users to create apps without coding. The goal is to combine the strengths of both companies to offer better solutions for businesses. However, neither company has shared more details about the deal yet. For more details, visit: https://qz.com/microsoft-s-new-collaboration-with-an-ai-startup-promis-1850422713 #artificialintelligence #AI #technology #sachindevduggal #sachinduggal #builderAI #AInews #technews
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Sachin Dev Duggal | Tune in to Carol and Tim for Daily Insights! In this Bloomberg Businessweek segment, you can watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube! They discuss important topics with special guests. Marcus Shaw, the President and CEO of AltFinance, talks about how they support students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) who are interested in careers in finance. Meanwhile, Sachin Dev Duggal, the Founder and CEO of Builder.ai, shares his insights on what OpenAI funding means for the artificial intelligence industry. The show is hosted by Matt Miller and Katie Greifeld, with production by Paul Brennan. Don’t miss out on these engaging discussions! Know More At: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2024-10-14/bloomberg-businessweek-altfinance-builder-ai-podcast #artificialintelligence #AI #technology #sachindevduggal #sachinduggal #builderAI #news #AInews #TechNews
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OpenAI raises $6.6B and is now valued at $157B ChatGPT maker OpenAI has closed the largest VC round of all time. The startup today announced that it raised $6.6 billion in a funding round that values OpenAI at $157 billion post-money. Led by previous investor Thrive Capital, the new cash brings OpenAI’s total raised to $17.9 billion, per Crunchbase. Thrive invested around $1.3 billion, per The New York Times, with an exclusive option to invest up to $1 billion more at the same valuation (through 2025). Microsoft, Nvidia, SoftBank, Khosla Ventures, Altimeter Capital, Fidelity, and MGX also participated in the fundraising. Microsoft reportedly invested a little less than $1 billion, while Nvidia pledged $100 million and SoftBank put in $500 million, reports The Wall Street Journal. “The new funding will allow us to double down on our leadership in frontier AI research, increase compute capacity, and continue building tools that help people solve hard problems,” the company wrote in a blog post. “We’re grateful to our investors for their trust in us, and we look forward to working with our partners, developers, and the broader community to shape an AI-powered ecosystem and future that benefits everyone.” There may be unusual strings attached. This morning, the Financial Times reported that OpenAI asked investors to avoid backing rival startups such as Anthropic and xAI. We’ve reached out to the company for more information and will update this post when we hear back. OpenAI was already the world’s best-funded AI startup. But the mammoth new tranche puts the San Francisco company in a category all its own. https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/02/openai-raises-6-6b-and-is-now-valued-at-157b/
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