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Elon Musk Shows a Little Self-Awareness, Says Grok Is Going Open Source This Week

Photo: lilgrapher / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock)Elon Musk said his startup xAI will open-source Grok later this week, revealing the inner workings of the chatbot to anyone who wants to dissect the AI or build a competing product. The announcement — which came just before 3 am Monday morning in Texas, where Musk makes his home — is short on details, but it’s another poke in his ongoing battle with OpenAI.Did Elon Musk Regret Buying Twitter? | Walter Isaacson InterviewThe billionaire sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman

You’ll Soon Have to Pay $20 a Month to Access Copilot’s Coolest Features

Graphic: MicrosoftMy colleague Maxwell Zeff once described Microsoft Copilot as “if Clippy went to get his MBA.” Microsoft just announced a new premium subscription to its Copilot AI, which can be analogous to Clippy getting a PhD. Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future TechTargeted at “power users and creators,” Copilot Pro promises to be an advanced version of the free tier for a monthly fee of $20. It runs across your devices (yes, on your phones, too—more on that in a bit) to deliver what Microsoft calls a

OpenAI Pissed Off Developers by Phasing Out Plugins for GPTs

Sam Altman needs developers to build useful tools with ChatGPT, but his company is pissing them off right now. Just before Christmas weekend, OpenAI emailed plugin developers, people building practical tools with ChatGPT, asking them to turn their work into GPTs.I Gave Sam Altman a Copy of My Eyeballs | Future Tech“Thank you for your interest in developing a ChatGPT plugin. We’ve taken our learnings from plugins and created GPTs,” said OpenAI in the email to developers. “If you previously explored building a plugin, much…

Begun, the AI Chip Wars Have

Microsoft will now make its own chips to power Azure, Copilot, and ChatGPT, CEO Satya Nadella announced at the Microsoft Ignite conference Wednesday. The Maia 100 can be used to train AI models and will start rolling out into Azure data centers early next year, reducing the company’s reliance on Nvidia GPUs.Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech“Azure’s end-to-end AI architecture, now optimized down to the silicon with Maia, paves the way for training more capable models and making those models cheaper for…

OpenAI’s GPTs Go Live After Fending Off Hackers

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs were live for all users Thursday, around the same time as the company resolved a DDoS attack causing global outages for ChatGPT and its API. CEO Sam Altman said the company was planning to go live with GPTs, its new customizable chatbots, for all subscribers on Monday in a tweet, but OpenAI had to stall the launch.Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future TechDevelopers and ChatGPT users experienced widespread outages on Wednesday, just days after the announcement of ChatGPT-4…

Microsoft gets ready to eat Google’s lunch as company unveils slew of AI features at Build 2023 conference: Top announcements

Microsoft Build has kicked off. This year the focus is on AI and its role in transforming Microsoft’s app and services including Windows 11, Microsoft 365 and more. The company also made several major announcements related to how it plans to expand AI integration across its apps and services. Here’s a round up of all the major announcements from the event that you need to know. ALSO READ l Microsoft is bringing Bing Search to ChatGPT, AI Copilot to Windows in battle with Google Microsoft 365 Copilot expansion: In a…

5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI scam, EVE robot, Sam Altman and much more

The artificial intelligence race has just got even more intense. Microsoft, during the keynote session of its developer-centric event Microsoft Build, announced a wide range of AI copilots for its products as well as a full copilot stack for its developers to build apps and plugins. With Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) just a couple of weeks away, it remains to be seen if Apple too will join the AI bandwagon. In other news, a scammer in China used AI technology to scam people. This and more in our daily…

At Microsoft Build, Satya Nadella moves company deeply into new era of AI

Microsoft Build 2023 got off to a rollicking start with CEO Satya Nadella unveiling a new era of AI for the company and explaining what it means for developers. Key news and highlights:I. Growing the AI plugin ecosystem:a) Microsoft will adopt the same open plugin standard that OpenAI introduced for ChatGPT, enabling interoperability across ChatGPT and the breadth of Microsoft's copilot offerings. Developers can now use one platform to build plugins that work across both consumer and business surfaces, including ChatGPT,…

Microsoft Build 2023: From ChatGPT on Bing to Windows Copilot, check all major announcements

Microsoft Build 2023 kicked off on Tuesday with a keynote address by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. This summer, the main focus of developer conferences has been on Artificial Intelligence (AI), beginning with the Google I/O 2023 where we witnessed various breakthroughs in AI with Google Bard and other AI tools. It is Microsoft's turn now and the Build 2023 not only allows a hands-on experience for all Microsoft technologies but also showcases new features the company is developing, including Windows 11, Bing, and its new…