White House Secures Pledge From 7 Leading AI Companies

Plus Sergey Brin is back at Google to work on their new foundation model

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Nathaniel Whittemore
July 21, 2023

The AI Breakdown First Five - Friday July 21, 2023

Today on the First Five:

  • 5. Runway Now Turns Midjourney Images into Videos

  • 4. US Senator Introduces Anti-AI Surveillance Bill

  • 3. Sergey Brin Secretly Working on Next DeepMind Model

  • 2. Cerebras Signs $100m Supercomputer Deal

  • 1. White House Secures AI Pledge from 7 Leading Companies

5. Runway Now Turns Midjourney Images into Videos

Generative video darling Runway has released a Gen 2 update with a feature that has really captured AI Twitter’s attention: the ability to automatically animate Midjourney images. This was a feature Pika Labs had also previously released, showing how competition is driving things forward.

4. US Senator Introduces Anti-AI Surveillance Bill

Well, actually, Senator Bob Casey introduced two bills. The first bill — the “No Robot Bosses Act” — would prevent employers from using exclusively AI to make hiring decisions. The second — the Exploitative Workplace Surveillance and Technologies Task Force Act — would create a task force to examine workplace surveillance.

Sen. Casey rolls out bills to protect workers from AI surveillance and 'robot bosses'

The Pennsylvania Democrat, who is seeking re-election in 2024, believes creating guardrails for artificial intelligence will be the next frontier in the fight for workers’ rights.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna94652

3. Sergey Brin Secretly Working on Next DeepMind Model

In a demonstration of just how essential AI is to the future of Google, co-founder Sergey Brin has been back in the office three to four days per week working on their new Gemini AI model, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

2. Cerebras Signs $100m Supercomputer Deal

While Nvidia continues to dominate AI compute, a new $100m deal between Cerebras and UAE-based G42 could suggest that more competition is coming online. G42 has agreed to purchase three of Cerebras’s new 4 exaflop Condor Galaxy systems, with discussions for six more.

1. White House Secures AI Pledge from 7 Leading Companies

AI continues to be a main focus for the Biden Administration. Today, the White House announced that seven AI companies including Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic and more had agreed to a set of voluntary principles to help support the responsible development of AI. President Biden will speak on the topic at 1:30pm.

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