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Elon Musk said on Monday his artificial intelligence startup xAI would take its ChatGPT challenger “Grok” open-source this week, days after he sued OpenAI for abandoning its original mission in favor of a for-profit model.The billionaire has warned on several occasions against the use of technology for profit by big technology companies such as Google.He filed the lawsuit earlier this month against Microsoft-backed OpenAI, which he cofounded in 2015 but left three years later. In response, OpenAI publicized emails that…

, xAI will open source its Grok chatbot. The founder of the company, whose AI assistant is available to Premium+ subscribers on X, hasn't revealed any other details about the decision, which is slated to take effect this week.It's hardly the first time a Musk company has opened up access to its knowhow. Tesla a decade ago, and now practically every major car manufacturer has adopted . X, meanwhile, that powers its "For You" algorithmic feed last year, though .As points out, Musk may be hoping that, by letting…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will return to the board of the company which is behind popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT. The development comes after a boardroom drama that saw Altman being fired in November last year. Altman will join the board with three new directors – Sue Desmond-Hellmann, former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Nicole Seligman, former president of Sony Entertainment; and Fidji Simo, CEO of Instacart.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

The latest step forward in the development of large language models (LLMs) took place earlier this week, with the release of a new version of Claude, the LLM developed by AI company Anthropic—whose founders left OpenAI in late 2020 over concerns about the company’s pace of development.But alongside the release of Claude 3, which sets new records in popular tests used to assess the prowess of LLMs, there was a second, more unusual innovation. Two days after Anthropic released Claude 3 to the world, Amanda Askell, a…

Photo: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto (Getty Images)There’s so much talk about AI and ChatGPT these days, but what is it really good for? If you’ve been struggling to figure out how to actually use AI in your everyday life, you’re not alone. Many of us are feeling lost about AI, but the practical use cases of ChatGPT are not as obvious as you might think. These magical AI chatbots are supposed to be taking our jobs and rapidly improving the world, but do you even really trust them to write an email?The key to actually using…

In a bid to empower users with unparalleled customization, Google has just rolled out an innovative feature for its Gemini AI-powered chatbot. This latest addition allows users to finely tune the responses generated by the chatbot, offering a level of granular control never seen before.Unlike traditional chatbot interactions, where the entire response might need regeneration, this feature enables users to focus on specific portions of the text. The tool lets users make precise adjustments, be it tweaking the length,…

Microsoft engineer Shane Jones of OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 back in January, suggesting the product has security vulnerabilities that make it easy to create violent or sexually explicit images. He also alleged that Microsoft’s legal team blocked his attempts to alert the public to the issue. Now, he has taken his complaint directly to the FTC, “I have repeatedly urged Microsoft to remove Copilot Designer from public use until better safeguards could be put in place,” Jones wrote in a letter to FTC Chair Lina Khan. He noted that…

Elon Musk, the entrepreneur behind companies like SpaceX and Tesla, has taken aim at Google's chatbot, Gemini, accusing artificial intelligence (AI) of mirroring the biases and mistakes of its creators.In a recent tweet, Musk lambasted Google's AI efforts, suggesting that the technology's flaws were evident in Gemini's generation of biased and unreliable data and images. Expressing his disbelief, he posted, "The sheer insanity of that actual response from Google's AI is staggering! They will fix it to be less obvious in…

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has spoken out about the problems with the company's Gemini AI chatbot, noting that the Mountain View, California-based company has " messed up" with the rollout of the image generation feature. Gemini (formerly…

The battle between AI chatbots is more than a two-horse race. Anthropic, the company formed by several ex-OpenAI employees, claims its new Claude 3 language model outperforms ChatGPT and Google's Gemini in several key industry benchmarks. It even hit "near-human" levels on some tasks, the company wrote in a blog.There are three new chatbots under the Claude 3 umbrella, including Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus. Sonnet powers the Claude.ai chatbot and is offered for free with an email sign-in. Meanwhile, Opus is the largest and…