Industrial-Strength LLM: Anthropic teamed up with South Korea’s largest mobile phone provider.
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Industrial-Strength LLM: Anthropic teamed up with South Korea’s largest mobile phone provider.

Anthropic, the startup behind the safety-focused Claude chatbot, teamed up with South Korea’s largest mobile phone provider.

August 30, 20232 min read
Industrial-Strength LLM: Anthropic teamed up with South Korea’s largest mobile phone provider.
Tech & Society

Industrial-Strength LLM: Anthropic teamed up with South Korea’s largest mobile phone provider.

Anthropic, the startup behind the safety-focused Claude chatbot, teamed up with South Korea’s largest mobile phone provider.

August 30, 20232 min read
AI Chip Challenger Gains Traction: Nvidia's competitor Cerebras secured a contract with a major tech conglomerate.
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AI Chip Challenger Gains Traction: Nvidia's competitor Cerebras secured a contract with a major tech conglomerate.

An upstart supplier of AI chips secured a major customer. Cerebras, which competes with Nvidia in hardware for training large models, signed a $100 million contract with Abu Dhabi tech conglomerate G42. The deal is the first part of a multi-stage plan to build a network of supercomputers.

August 23, 20232 min read
AI Chip Challenger Gains Traction: Nvidia's competitor Cerebras secured a contract with a major tech conglomerate.
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AI Chip Challenger Gains Traction: Nvidia's competitor Cerebras secured a contract with a major tech conglomerate.

An upstart supplier of AI chips secured a major customer. Cerebras, which competes with Nvidia in hardware for training large models, signed a $100 million contract with Abu Dhabi tech conglomerate G42. The deal is the first part of a multi-stage plan to build a network of supercomputers.

August 23, 20232 min read
Defcon Contest Highlights AI Security: A hacker competition to break guardrails around language models
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Defcon Contest Highlights AI Security: A hacker competition to break guardrails around language models

Hackers attacked AI models in a large-scale competition to discover vulnerabilities. At the annual Defcon hacker convention in Las Vegas, 2,200 people competed to break guardrails around language models, The New York Times reported.

August 23, 20232 min read
Defcon Contest Highlights AI Security: A hacker competition to break guardrails around language models
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Defcon Contest Highlights AI Security: A hacker competition to break guardrails around language models

Hackers attacked AI models in a large-scale competition to discover vulnerabilities. At the annual Defcon hacker convention in Las Vegas, 2,200 people competed to break guardrails around language models, The New York Times reported.

August 23, 20232 min read
News Outlet Challenges AI Developers: The New York Times forbids the use of its work in training datasets.
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News Outlet Challenges AI Developers: The New York Times forbids the use of its work in training datasets.

The New York Times launched a multi-pronged attack on the use of its work in training datasets. The company updated its terms of service to forbid use of its web content and other data for training AI systems.

August 23, 20232 min read
News Outlet Challenges AI Developers: The New York Times forbids the use of its work in training datasets.
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News Outlet Challenges AI Developers: The New York Times forbids the use of its work in training datasets.

The New York Times launched a multi-pronged attack on the use of its work in training datasets. The company updated its terms of service to forbid use of its web content and other data for training AI systems.

August 23, 20232 min read
ChatGPT’s Best Friend: Unitree's robot dog Go2 is smarter than ever.
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ChatGPT’s Best Friend: Unitree's robot dog Go2 is smarter than ever.

The latest robot dog is smarter — and less expensive — than ever. Unitree Robotics of Hangzhou, China, unleashed Go2, a quadruped robot that trots alongside its owner, stands on two legs, jumps, talks, takes photos, and retails for less than a high-end MacBook.

August 16, 20231 min read
ChatGPT’s Best Friend: Unitree's robot dog Go2 is smarter than ever.
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ChatGPT’s Best Friend: Unitree's robot dog Go2 is smarter than ever.

The latest robot dog is smarter — and less expensive — than ever. Unitree Robotics of Hangzhou, China, unleashed Go2, a quadruped robot that trots alongside its owner, stands on two legs, jumps, talks, takes photos, and retails for less than a high-end MacBook.

August 16, 20231 min read
China’s LLMs Open Up: Alibaba’s new open source LLMs
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China’s LLMs Open Up: Alibaba’s new open source LLMs

The latest wave of large language models trained in Chinese is open source for some users. Internet giant Alibaba released large language models that are freely available to smaller organizations.

August 16, 20232 min read
China’s LLMs Open Up: Alibaba’s new open source LLMs
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China’s LLMs Open Up: Alibaba’s new open source LLMs

The latest wave of large language models trained in Chinese is open source for some users. Internet giant Alibaba released large language models that are freely available to smaller organizations.

August 16, 20232 min read
The High Cost of Serving LLMs: How much does serving large language models at scale cost?
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The High Cost of Serving LLMs: How much does serving large language models at scale cost?

Amid the hype that surrounds large language models, a crucial caveat has receded into the background: The current cost of serving them at scale. As chatbots go mainstream, providers must contend with the expense of serving sharply rising numbers of users.

August 10, 20231 min read
The High Cost of Serving LLMs: How much does serving large language models at scale cost?
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The High Cost of Serving LLMs: How much does serving large language models at scale cost?

Amid the hype that surrounds large language models, a crucial caveat has receded into the background: The current cost of serving them at scale. As chatbots go mainstream, providers must contend with the expense of serving sharply rising numbers of users.

August 10, 20231 min read
Robots Work the Drive-Thru: Drive-thru fast-food restaurants are rolling out chatbots to take orders.
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Robots Work the Drive-Thru: Drive-thru fast-food restaurants are rolling out chatbots to take orders.

Chatbots are taking orders for burgers and fries — and making sure you buy a milkshake with them. Drive-thru fast-food restaurants across the United States are rolling out chatbots to take orders.

August 9, 20232 min read

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