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Good morning, Caffeinators☀️
Happy 2024! 2023 was a crazy year for LLMs. Let’s hope 2024 is as exciting!
Today’s Starting Sips:
🚨 The New York Times vs OpenAI
💰 $10M Boost for Superalignment
💸 OpenAI Needs $100 Billion
This was the headlines before we celebrated Christmas and NYE.
This isn't just any lawsuit—it's a showdown that could redefine the AI-publishing landscape.
Specifics:
Lawsuit Basics: The New York Times claims OpenAI used its content to power ChatGPT, violating intellectual property rights.
Common Crawl's Role: ChatGPT, like many AI models, is trained on Common Crawl, which requires users to adhere to original content owners' terms.
IP Controversy: The tech world often disregards intellectual property, a sentiment rooted in early digital culture like Napster and Google.
Direct Competition: The lawsuit highlights how ChatGPT competes directly with NYTimes services like Wirecutter, without driving traffic or revenue back to them.
Why it is important:
The lawsuit extends beyond OpenAI and Microsoft. It could reshape how AI models are trained and the ethical standards of tech companies regarding intellectual property.
If the NYTimes wins, it might trigger stricter regulations on AI training data, affecting not just OpenAI but the entire field.
OpenAI is funding research to tame the beast of superhuman AI systems. The goal is to make smarter AIs that play nice and safe.
Specifics:
What is alignment? Ensures that AI system goals and actions are in line with human values and well-being. Aka: AI safety.
$10 Million Grant: Offering $100K–$2M to labs, nonprofits, and individuals that address AI alignment and safety.
Research Focus Areas: Key areas include weak-to-strong generalization, interpretability, scalable oversight, and more.
Why it is important:
The initiative marks a paradigm shift in AI development, moving from just advancement to responsible innovation.
It's a call to action for the global research community to collaborate on one of the most pressing technical challenges of our era.
OpenAI is in early talks for a funding round that could skyrocket its valuation to $100 billion or more.
Details:
Second Place: This will place OpenAI as the second most valuable startup (behind SpaceX).
Unsettled Previous Funding: OpenAI's valuation was previously set at $86 billion, with a tender offer led by Thrive Capital, which is not yet settled.
AI Chip Venture: OpenAI is also in talks of raising $8-10 billion with Abu Dhabi-based G42 for a new chip venture, a rival of Nvidia
Why It Is Important:
If they hit that $100 billion mark, it's a clear signal to the world: AI is not just a buzzword, but a powerhouse driving the future of technology.
The focus on developing their own AI chips, in collaboration with G42, hints at OpenAI's ambition to not just play in the AI software arena but to potentially redefine the hardware landscape as well.
🥤 To-Go Cup
The New York Times is suing OpenAI for copyright infringement
OpenAI will fund researchers, groups, and individuals around the world to achieve “Superalignment”
OpenAI is in talks of boosting its valuation to $100 billion
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