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The Biggest AI News from the Holiday Break
Apple, OpenAI, NYT, Mistral and More
Nathaniel Whittemore
January 02, 2024
The AI Breakdown First Five - Tuesday January 2, 2024
Today on the First Five: The Biggest News from the Holiday Break
5. Mistral to Release GPT-4 Level Open Source Model in 2024
4. Apple iPhone Head Leaves to Join Ive/Altman AI Startup
3. Apple Negotiating Publisher Partnerships for AI Training
2. OpenAI at $1.6B ARR, Raising at $100B
1. NYT Sues OpenAI in Most Significant Copyright Case So Far
5. Mistral to Release GPT-4 Level Open Source Model in 2024
Appearing on French national radio last month, the CEO of Mistral Arthur Mensch claimed that the buzzy open source AI company will release a model this coming year that matches GPT-4 level capabilities.
Interesting year ahead - Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral declared on French national radio that mistral will release an open source Gpt4 level model in 2024
— Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai)
7:16 PM • Dec 18, 2023
4. Apple iPhone Head Leaves to Join Ive/Altman AI Startup
Tang Tan is the most recent Apple executive to leave the company, and is joining former Apple design head Jony Ive at LoveFrom, which is widely reported to be collaborating with Sam Altman on a next generation hardware device.
"What is clear is that @sama and OpenAI want to build an AI device," says @munster_gene on reports that $AAPL's outgoing design chief, Tang Tan, is teaming up with Jony Ive and Sam Altman.
— Last Call (@LastCallCNBC)
1:03 AM • Dec 27, 2023
3. Apple Negotiating Publisher Partnerships for AI Training
In a move that’s made even more notable by our #1 story from the holiday break, Apple is reportedly in discussions with numerous publishers to license their content to train Apple’s AI models. The initiative could see them spending $50M or more.
Breaking News: Apple Considers Joining Forces with Publishers to Train Its AI
Source: bit.ly/41DSP5e
#apple#ai#breakingnews#technology #tech#technews#tech4all#techtrends
— Tech Disease (@wetechdisease)
9:34 AM • Dec 25, 2023
2. OpenAI at $1.6B ARR, Raising at $100B
Whatever drama the company’s leadership might have experienced, OpenAI’s customers don’t seem to care. The company’s revenue has grown ~20% in the last two months to reach an annualized run rate of $1.6B. OpenAI is also reportedly looking at additional investment at a valuation north of $100B.
OpenAI is in early discussions to raise a fresh round of funding at a valuation at or above $100 billion, per Bloomberg.
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales)
10:41 AM • Dec 26, 2023
1. NYT Sues OpenAI in Most Significant Copyright Case So Far
It was the lawsuit heard ‘round the AI world. The New York Times is going after OpenAI for copyright claims, and many observers think they have a much stronger case than similar suits we’ve seen so far. One way or another, this will have a major impact on how AI develops.
new blog post/email....
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title: OpenAI's Napster/Google Momentsub: The New York Times got rolled by Google in the 2000s, but they're not getting rolled this time around.
Today, the New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for stealing millions of pages of their content… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— @jason (@Jason)
8:47 PM • Dec 27, 2023
Bonus: Who Got More or Less Worried About AI Last Year
Did your p(doom) go up or down in 2023?
— Zvi Mowshowitz (@TheZvi)
3:54 PM • Jan 1, 2024
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