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Elon Musk Sues OpenAI
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🧑⚖️ Musk Sues OpenAI
🍏 Apple Joins AI Race
☄️ Planetary Defense Update
🤖 Figure AI Spotlight
⭕️ Meet Groq
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Elon Musk Sues OpenAI
🧑⚖️ Elon Musk, a co-founder of OpenAI, has filed a lawsuit against the organization, its leaders, and affiliated entities, alleging a betrayal of its non-profit origins.
🏢 Musk asserts that OpenAI, initially designed to counterbalance Google's AI dominance, has strayed from its mission by pursuing profit, particularly through a close partnership with Microsoft. Claiming that OpenAI has essentially become a profit-driven subsidiary of Microsoft, Musk argues this shift undermines the commitment to democratize AI technology.
🧑💼 Having left OpenAI's board in 2018 and recently launching ChatGPT competitor Grok through his company, X, Musk now demands OpenAI revert to its founding ethos and questions the current board's AI governance expertise.
Sam Altman, OpenAI's co-founder, maintains pride in the organization's achievements amidst this legal challenge. Read more
Apple Picks AI over EVs
Apple is going all-in on Generative AI, pivoting from its electric vehicle ambitions. CEO Tim Cook announced a beefed-up Siri and Spotlight, plus AI enhancements in apps like Keynote and Xcode. 🍏
They're ramping up academic papers and have released open-source GenAI models. Big bucks are being poured into proprietary GenAI tech, including a spanking new language model and an in-house chatbot. 🤖
📱 Expect this AI frenzy to jazz up the next iOS, macOS, and iPadOS updates, and to be a game-changer for the iPhone 16. Read more
Figure Valued at $2.6B
In a striking display of investor confidence, Figure, a humanoid robotics startup from the Bay Area, has secured a hefty $675 million in Series B funding, catapulting its valuation to $2.6 billion. 💵
🏢 With just 80 employees, the company, led by founder Brett Adcock, has swiftly emerged as a frontrunner in the robotics arena, thanks to backing from tech giants like Microsoft, OpenAI, Nvidia, Amazon, and billionaire Jeff Bezos.
🦿 Figure's rapid rise, marked by the creation of a walking bipedal robot within a year of its 2022 inception, underscores its commitment to versatile, multipurpose robots—a shift from traditional, single-function automations.
🏭️ Eyeing industrial applications, particularly in warehouses and factories, Figure's collaboration with BMW underlines its growing influence and the broad potential of humanoid robots in diverse sectors. Read more
Meet AI Chip Startup “Groq“
In a significant expansion move, AI chip startup Groq has launched Groq Systems, aiming to broaden its customer base in both enterprise and public sectors. 🔍️
The acquisition enriches Groq with Definitive Intelligence's expertise in AI and cloud platforms.
🧑💻 This move is part of Groq's aggressive strategy in the custom AI chip market, promises to accelerate the deployment of LMMs with their advanced LPU inference engine, setting the stage for Groq to become a significant player in the AI technology field. Read more
Space & Tech
Planetary Defense Update
☄️ In a stellar achievement for space exploration, NASA's DART mission in 2022 successfully altered asteroid Dimorphos's trajectory, revealing its 'rubble pile' nature.
📰 Published in Nature Astronomy, this breakthrough indicates these asteroids are easier to deflect, a win for planetary defense. Simulations by scientists like Sabina Raducan from the University of Bern played a key role.
With ESA's Hera mission set to further explore Dimorphos by 2026, this discovery marks a significant leap in understanding and managing cosmic threats. Read more
The Strongest Magnetic Fields
(New Discovery)
🧲 In a groundbreaking discovery at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, scientists have detected the universe's strongest magnetic field in nuclear matter, hitting a whopping 10^18 gauss.
🌍️ This record-breaking field, much mightier than anything seen in neutron stars or on Earth, emerges from the off-center collisions of heavy nuclei like gold. The team ingeniously tracked the path of charged particles in the quarks and gluons plasma formed during these collisions to indirectly observe this ephemeral magnetic field. 🌎️
This finding not only paves the way for new research into the conductivity of this plasma but also deepens our grasp of the strong force binding quarks and gluons into hadrons, offering a fresh perspective on the fabric of our universe. Read more