OpenAI’s legal battles are not putting off customers—yet
OpenAI’s legal battles are not putting off customers—yet
Sam Altman said he'd 'pick a different name' for OpenAI if he could go back in time
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OpenAI’s legal battles are not putting off customers—yet
Inflection AI Plans Pivot After Most Employees Go to Microsoft
Sam Altman said he'd 'pick a different name' for OpenAI if he could go back in time
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OpenAI’s legal battles are not putting off customers—yet
Pity OpenAI’s lawyers. On February 29th Elon Musk added yet another problem to their list by suing the maker of ChatGPT, a wildly popular artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot, for breach of contract. The lawsuit argues that the startup was originally set up as a non-profit with the aim of building AI for the “benefit of humanity”, but has since established a profit-making subsidiary and accepted a large investment from Microsoft, a tech titan valued at $3trn, in exchange for exclusive access to its technology. According to Mr Musk, who was an early investor in OpenAI and has since founded a rival, Xai, these actions benefit not humanity but “literally the largest company in the world”.
So far such legal hurdles are not putting off customers and investors. According to SimilarWeb, a data firm, OpenAI clocked 1.6bn visits to its mobile app and website in February, five times what Gemini, Google’s rival AI, has managed. Surveys of large companies invariably find Openai and Microsoft to be the most popular purveyors of AI tools. In December OpenAI was making an annualized revenue of $2bn, up from virtually nothing the year before. Venture capitalists report that the startups they back see its models as best on price and performance.
For one thing, it gives competitors time to catch up technologically. In mid-February Google updated its Gemini model. The search giant claims that the new version is able to process far more data than GPT-4 (though it has also been criticized for being too “woke”). Two weeks later Mistral, a French challenger, launched a small but high-performing model. On March 4th Anthropic, an AI startup backed by Google and Amazon, released its latest AI, Claude 3, claiming that it outperforms GPT-4 on a number of tasks (including the Multistate Bar Examination for lawyers).
This in turn is leading businesses to think more carefully about diversifying their AI toolboxes. Startups and corporations are already designing software to make it easy to switch between OpenAI’s current top model, GPT-4, and alternatives. That is partly a way to minimize costs by using cheaper, less powerful models for simpler tasks, but also insurance in case one model-maker runs into trouble. Paul Daugherty of Accenture, a consultancy, says one of the most common questions company bosses ask about AI is which model they should use. This suggests that OpenAI is no longer the default choice. Even Microsoft is spreading its bets. Last month it announced a partnership with Mistral, whose open-source models will be available on Microsoft’s Azure cloud.
Openai’s lawyers may be worried about the additional legal risks that new models could create. That in turn could lead OpenAI once again to push back the release of GPT-5, expected to be the world’s most powerful ai yet. The delay would give rivals an advantage….
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Inflection AI Plans Pivot After Most Employees Go to Microsoft
In a major shakeup in the AI industry, Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan, co-founders of the prominent AI startup Inflection AI, are joining Microsoft to lead the company's newly formed consumer AI division called Microsoft AI.
Artificial intelligence startup Inflection AI said it’s planning to license its technology to Microsoft Corp., part of a shift for the startup toward working with business customers — a move that follows the departure of most of its staff for Microsoft.
On Tuesday, Bloomberg first reported that Microsoft had hired Inflection Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, as well as Chief Scientist and co-founder Karén Simonyan, along with most of the startup’s employees.
Last year, when investor interest in chatbots surged, Inflection debuted a bot named Pi — positioned as a kind of personal assistant that was nicer and more reliable than competitors. But after the launch, Suleyman told Bloomberg that Inflection had not succeeded in finding an effective business model.
Going forward, Inflection AI will retain its proprietary technology as it shifts to an enterprise business model. In a blog post on Tuesday, Inflection said it was well positioned to serve companies including Microsoft.
Mustafa Suleyman, who previously co-founded DeepMind (acquired by Google in 2014), will serve as EVP and CEO of Microsoft AI, reporting directly to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Suleyman will lead AI products and research for Microsoft's Copilot, Bing, and Edge.
This high-profile talent acquisition underscores Microsoft's aggressive push to bolster its AI capabilities and innovate in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. CEO Satya Nadella emphasized the importance of this move, stating that the company is only in the second year of the "AI platform shift" and must ensure it has the "capability and capacity to boldly innovate"….
By Shirin Ghaffary of Bloomberg
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Sam Altman said he'd 'pick a different name' for OpenAI if he could go back in time
Sam Altman suggested OpenAI may not be the most ideal name for the artificial intelligence company — at least in hindsight.
The 38-year-old OpenAI CEO — who cofounded the company along with Elon Musk and others in 2015 — explained on Lex Fridman's podcast that when the company was just getting started, they didn't quite know what it was going to be.
"We started off just thinking we were going to be a research lab and having no idea about how this technology was going to go," Altman told Fridman.
"This was before we had any idea about an API or selling access to a chatbot," Altman said on the podcast. "It was before we had any idea we were going to productize at all."
OpenAI was first established as a nonprofit whose mission was to benefit humanity with artificial intelligence, but it shed that status in 2019 when it transitioned to a "capped-profit" model.
Elon Musk — who has taken issue with the fact that OpenAI is not fully open-source — sued the company last month, alleging that it had breached its "founding agreement" and violated its original nonprofit mission.
By Grace Eliza Goodwin of Business Insider
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