Meta’s New Llama 3.1 AI Model Is Free, Powerful, and Risky

Meta’s New Llama 3.1 AI Model Is Free, Powerful, and Risky

Most tech moguls hope to sell artificial intelligence to the masses. But Mark Zuckerberg is giving away what Meta considers to be one of the world’s best AI models for free. Meta released the biggest, most capable version of a large language model called Llama on Monday, free of charge. Meta has not disclosed the … Read more

Toyota Pulls Off a Fast and Furious Demo With Dual Drifting AI-Powered Race Cars

Toyota Pulls Off a Fast and Furious Demo With Dual Drifting AI-Powered Race Cars

Losing traction while driving at high speed is generally very bad news. Scientists from the Toyota Research Institute and Stanford University have developed a pair of self-driving cars that use artificial intelligence to do it in a controlled fashion—a trick better known as “drifting”—to push the limits of autonomous driving. The two autonomous vehicles performed … Read more

Steve Jobs describes generative AI in newly released 1983 clip

Steve Jobs describes generative AI in newly released 1983 clip

From the Macintosh computer to the iPhone, Apple’s late co-founder Steve Jobs was widely considered an innovative visionary who helped revolutionize the way we use technology in our everyday lives. Now, a newly released clip from 1983 reveals Jobs may have been more ahead of his time than we knew. The Steve Jobs Archive’s latest … Read more

Dow drops, Netflix beats estimates, Nvidia rebounds

Dow drops, Netflix beats estimates, Nvidia rebounds

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on Jan. 31, 2024 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no … Read more

We Asked AI to Take Us On a Tour of Our Cities. It Was Chaos

We Asked AI to Take Us On a Tour of Our Cities. It Was Chaos

With high hopes of finding some hidden gems in our home cities and $100 (£77) each burning a hole in our pockets, we—Natasha Bernal in London and Amanda Hoover in New York—asked AI to plan out the perfect day. We decided to use Littlefoot, an AI-powered local discovery chatbot that can generate experiences in 161 … Read more

Dow drops, Netflix beats, Nvidia rebounds

Dow drops, Netflix beats estimates, Nvidia rebounds

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on April 26, 2023 in New York City.  Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they … Read more

The AI-Powered Future of Coding Is Near

The AI-Powered Future of Coding Is Near

I am by no means a skilled coder, but thanks to a free program called SWE-agent, I was just able to debug and fix a gnarly problem involving a misnamed file within different code repositories on the software-hosting site GitHub. I pointed SWE-agent at an issue on GitHub and watched as it went through the … Read more

OpenAI Slashes the Cost of Using Its AI With a “Mini” Model

OpenAI Slashes the Cost of Using Its AI With a “Mini” Model

OpenAI today announced a cut-price “mini” model that it says will allow more companies and programs to tap into its artificial intelligence. The new model, called GPT-4o mini and available starting today, is 60 percent cheaper than OpenAI’s most inexpensive existing model while offering higher performance, the company says. OpenAI characterizes the move as part … Read more

Chinese regulators begin testing GenAI models on socialist values

Chinese regulators begin testing GenAI models on socialist values

Digital code and Chinese flag representing cybersecurity in China. Anton Petrus | Moment | Getty Images AI companies in China are undergoing a government review of their large language models, aimed at ensuring they “embody core socialist values,” according to a report by the Financial Times. The review is being carried out by the Cyberspace Administration … Read more

Tinder’s new AI tool will curate your dating profile pictures for you

Tinder’s new AI tool will curate your dating profile pictures for you

Tinder is deploying a new feature which uses artificial intelligence to help users pick images for their dating profiles. The tool, called Photo Selector, requires daters to take a selfie for facial recognition and then allow the app to access photos on their smartphone. Then, the AI-powered technology recommends up to 27 photos that are … Read more