OpenAI and Google kicked off the week by releasing competing multimodal artificial intelligence products. On Monday, OpenAI announced its flagship model ChatGPT-4o — a multimodal chatbot that can see, hear, and have real-time conversations. On its heels, Google unveiled a prototype of its AI assistant that it says can see through a user’s phone and other objects like smart glasses.
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Microsoft is reportedly asking hundreds of its employees in China to consider relocating outside of the country amid growing tensions between the U.S. and China.
Nvidia has been on a hot streak so far this year — and its chief executive is headed for compensation outpacing his chip rivals.
The Silverstone motor racing circuit in England is familiar with a chance of rain and the world’s fastest drivers — but for the first time, the track will become the site of a car race between man and artificial intelligence.
Google is preemptively hedging against any risk of backlash from creative industries over its new AI media-generation tools — by bringing artists in as spokespeople.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Tuesday announced an AI tool that could very well quell the pleas of every young person who’s watched a parent scroll through photos on their smartphone for long minutes in search of “that one time when…”
AI assistants are picking up more senses. On Monday, OpenAI showed off a new ChatGPT model that promises to see, hear, and speak through smartphones, among other new abilities. Now Google is announcing a rival assistant with similar capabilities.
Skeptics thought generative artificial intelligence was a big threat to Google, a tech giant that makes most of its money through its ever-popular search engine.
OpenAI on Monday debuted a new chatbot with some impressive — or freaky, depending on your perspective — capabilities. With its ability to see, hear, and talk like a real person, OpenAI executives demonstrated how the latest ChatGPT can translate live conversations and tell bedtime stories in different voices.
OpenAI on Monday announced its new flagship model ChatGPT-4o — an AI chatbot that can see, hear, and have real-time conversations.
Almost one third of respondents in a new Bloomberg Markets Live Pulse Survey said they are turning to tech stocks, not gold, to shield themselves from inflation. And leading that pack is AI chipmaker Nvidia.
Some may say generative artificial intelligence wade its way into mainstream culture at the debut of ChatGPT in 2022. But the research that laid the foundation for modern AI took decades, and the developers leading it went on to influence major tech companies and policymakers on the most disruptive technology of the 21st century to date.
