Microsoft, Salesforce, and Nvidia swoop in to hire OpenAI employees as walkout threats increase
OpenAI’s future remains uncertain as employees threaten a walkout over the firing of former CEO and co-founder Sam Altman.
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OpenAI’s future remains uncertain as employees threaten a walkout over the firing of former CEO and co-founder Sam Altman.
The U.S. imposed export restrictions on high-level AI chips to China in October, but Chinese companies are finding new ways to develop the technology.
The action reportedly came as a part of a general inquiry of French antitrust authorities into the cloud computing sector.
Capital One also joined the investment round, despite being the top client of rival cloud platform Snowflake.
Adobe, IBM, Nvidia and five other companies have joined the initiative, unveiled in July, aimed at preventing the misuse of AI's capabilities for harmful purposes.
Meta is reportedly in the process of building a new, more powerful and open-source AI model to rival the most powerful systems of its rival OpenAI.
The U.S. Department of Commerce denied blocking AI chip sales to the Middle East and remained silent about whether the requirements were only imposed on specific countries.
U.S. regulators have told AI chip maker Nvidia and its rival AMD to curb exports of high-level semiconductor chips used to develop AI to certain Middle Eastern countries.
Iris Energy has invested $10 million in the latest generation Nvidia GPUs to explore generative AI while it continues to focus on Bitcoin mining.
The chips will be used to set up an AI resource as a recent report said 20% of firms can’t get enough computing power for AI.