8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story

8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story

The last two weeks before the deadline were frantic. Though officially some of the team still had desks in Building 1945, they mostly worked in 1965 because it had a better espresso machine in the micro-kitchen. “People weren’t sleeping,” says Gomez, who, as the intern, lived in a constant debugging frenzy and also produced the … Read more

Regulators Need AI Expertise. They Can’t Afford It

Regulators Need AI Expertise. They Can’t Afford It

ChatGPT caught regulators by surprise when it set off a new AI race. As companies have rushed to develop and release ever more powerful models, lawmakers and regulators around the world have sought to catch up and rein in development. As governments spin up new AI programs, regulators around the world are urgently trying to … Read more

Google DeepMind’s Latest AI Agent Learned to Play ‘Goat Simulator 3’

Google DeepMind’s Latest AI Agent Learned to Play ‘Goat Simulator 3’

“SIMA takes one step further and shows stronger generalization to new games,” he says. “The number of environments is still very small, but I think SIMA is on the right track. A New Way to Play SIMA shows DeepMind putting a new twist on game playing agents, an AI technology the company has pioneered in … Read more

Elon Musk Gave Himself No Choice but to Open Source His Chatbot Grok

Elon Musk Gave Himself No Choice but to Open Source His Chatbot Grok

After suing OpenAI this month, alleging the company has become too closed, Elon Musk says he will release his “truth-seeking” answer to ChatGPT, the chatbot Grok, for anyone to download and use. “This week, @xAI will open source Grok,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X today. That suggests his AI company, xAI, will … Read more

Musk to make AI chatbot open source amid legal battle with OpenAI

Musk to make AI chatbot open source amid legal battle with OpenAI

Elon Musk said Monday that his artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI will make its chatbot Grok open source after he sued OpenAI earlier this month for straying from its original mission and failing to remain open source. “This week, @xAI will open source Grok,” Musk said in a post on X, the platform formerly known … Read more

Sam Altman Returns To OpenAI Board As Probe Finds He Was “Wrongly Fired”

Sam Altman Returns To OpenAI Board As Probe Finds He Was “Wrongly Fired”

CEO Sam Altman will return to the board of OpenAI, the company said on Friday. San Francisco: CEO Sam Altman will return to the board of OpenAI, the company said on Friday, just months after a boardroom dustup that saw him fired and rehired by the company behind ChatGPT. Altman was also found to have … Read more

Sam Altman reinstated to OpenAI board after investigation 

Sam Altman reinstated to OpenAI board after investigation 

Sam Altman, the CEO of artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI, was reinstated to its board of directors following an investigation Friday. “We have unanimously concluded that Sam and [president of OpenAI Greg Brockman] are the right leaders for OpenAI,” Bret Taylor, chair of the OpenAI board, said in a Friday blog post. Altman was fired … Read more

Sam Altman Reinstated To OpenAI Board Following Investigation

Sam Altman Reinstated To OpenAI Board Following Investigation

OpenAI is reinstating CEO Sam Altman to its board of directors and said it has “full confidence” in his leadership after an outside investigation into the turmoil that led the company to abruptly fire and rehire him in November. OpenAI said the investigation by the law firm WilmerHale concluded that Altman’s ouster was a “consequence … Read more

Sam Altman Is Reinstated to OpenAI’s Board

Sam Altman Is Reinstated to OpenAI’s Board

Sam Altman is back—again. The entrepreneur who was suddenly fired as OpenAI CEO and from the ChatGPT developer’s board last November, before regaining his CEO position days later, is now getting his director seat back, too. Altman and three veteran business executives, all women, were named to OpenAI’s board on Friday, OpenAI announced in a … Read more

The Fear That Inspired Elon Musk and Sam Altman to Create OpenAI

The Fear That Inspired Elon Musk and Sam Altman to Create OpenAI

Elon Musk last week sued two of his OpenAI cofounders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, accusing them of “flagrant breaches” of the trio’s original agreement that the company would develop artificial intelligence openly and without chasing profits. Late on Tuesday, OpenAI released partially redacted emails between Musk, Altman, Brockman, and others that provide a counternarrative. … Read more