AI Decoded

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here.Nvidia’s big news Monday wasn’t a new chip, it was a strategyIt’s a good time to be Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Right now, Nvidia dominates the market for the chips needed to run AI models. Nvidia stock has tripled in value over the past 12 months. And delivering a keynote speech at San Jose’s SAP Center on Monday as part of the company’s GTC developer…

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here.OpenAI fires back at Elon Musk over lawsuitIn Elon Musk’s breach of contract lawsuit filed late last month against OpenAI, the billionaire raises a fair question: Why does OpenAI, a nonprofit entity, act so much like a for-profit one?  Since the public launch of ChatGPT—and the ensuing mania around the tech—OpenAI has raced to release a stream of…

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here.In Microsoft’s Mistral stake, some EU regulators smell betrayalThe French unicorn AI lab Mistral said Monday that it’s sold a small share of the company to Microsoft for $16 million. Founded by Google DeepMind and Meta alumni, Mistral has billed itself as an open-source-friendly company, releasing its first two models via Hugging Face last year. But…

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here.Google revives its open-source game with Gemma modelsGoogle announced today a set of new large language models, collectively called “Gemma,” and a return to the practice of releasing new research into the open-source ecosystem. The new models were developed by Google DeepMind and other teams within the company that already brought us the…

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here.Big talk—and a big departure—at OpenAINews broke Tuesday night that one of OpenAI’s original founding members, the decorated AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, has left the company to pursue “personal projects.”Both Karpathy and OpenAI seemed to downplay the significance of the move Tuesday night. “First of all nothing ‘happened’ and it’s not a result…

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here.Tim Cook strongly hinted to analysts during an earnings call last week that his company will be building new AI features into its various operating systems later this year. Apple already uses some machine learning in its phones for photography features, but Cook likely means that Apple has been working on adding generative AI features to its phone…

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly LinkedIn newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. If a friend or colleague shared this newsletter with you, you can sign up to receive it every week here.AI deepfake tech is advancing faster than legal frameworks to control it Over the past two weeks the world got a preview of the kind of damage AI deepfakes are capable of inflicting. Some New Hampshire voters received robocalls featuring an AI-generated Joe Biden telling them not to vote in the…

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly LinkedIn newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. If a friend or colleague shared this newsletter with you, you can sign up to receive it every week here.AI search will have a huge effect on Google—and brands For many people, Google’s search engine acts as a front door to the internet. And search is big business for Google: In 2022, more than half of its total revenue, $162.45 billion, came from search ads. But that formula might now be changing,…

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly LinkedIn newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. If a friend or colleague shared this newsletter with you, you can sign up to receive it every week here.AI is everywhere at Davos this yearAs world leaders and other elites arrived in the small skiing village of Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting, they were greeted with display ads and window signs about AI. On Davos’s main drag, the Indian conglomerate Tata erected a…

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly LinkedIn newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. If a friend or colleague shared this newsletter with you, you can sign up to receive it every week here.OpenAI launches its GPT Store for specialized chatbotsThis morning, OpenAI launched its “GPT Store,” which features versions of ChatGPT that have been customized by users to perform specific tasks. ChatGPT users have now made three million GPTs, OpenAI says, and some of them will want to go…