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Nvidia on top, Microsoft's 'iPhone moment,' and Elon Musk's factory: AI news roundup

Nvidia on top, Microsoft's 'iPhone moment,' and Elon Musk's factory: AI news roundup

Plus, Apple is looking for an OpenAI alternative in China — where there is no ChatGPT

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Nvidia is new to the $3 trillion market-cap club, but this week it passed both Apple and Microsoft to become the most valuable public company in the world.

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Meanwhile, OpenAI rival Anthropic announced its Claude 3.5 Sonnet model which it says beat GPT-4o in tasks including graduate-level reasoning and coding.

Read about this and more in the AI news roundup.

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Vinod Khosla made the remarks at the Forbes Iconoclast Summit in New York on Thursday.
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Billionaire entrepreneur and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla believes artificial intelligence will make pretty much all expertise free within the next two decades.

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AI startup Anthropic on Thursday debuted its updated AI model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which it said bests OpenAI’s GPT-4 in important tasks and is twice as fast as its previous model, Claude 3 Opus.

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People buy the newly launched iPhone 15 and other Apple products at a flagship store on September 22, 2023 in Beijing, China.
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Apple earlier this month unveiled its generative artificial intelligence plans, which are rolling out later this year — but it’s facing a problem in its second-largest iPhone market.

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Dell CEO Michael Dell during the 2013 Oracle Open World conference on September 25, 2013 in San Francisco, California.
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Dell Technologies and Super Micro Computer both saw their stocks jump Thursday morning, a day after announcing a partnership with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI.

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Nvidia is new to the $3 trillion market cap club, and it’s already passed both Microsoft and Apple to become the world’s most valuable public company.

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Ilya Sutskever left OpenAI in May, where he co-lead the company’s “super alignment” team.
Ilya Sutskever left OpenAI in May, where he co-lead the company’s “super alignment” team.
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After almost a decade as chief scientist of artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever left in May. One month later, he’s announced his own AI company — Safe Superintelligence Inc.

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Nvidia headquarters on February 5, 2024 in Santa Clara, California.
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Nvidia has had a good year so far — and so have people inside the company.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during the Nvidia GTC Artificial Intelligence Conference at SAP Center on March 18, 2024 in San Jose, California.
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Nvidia recently joined Apple and Microsoft in the $3 trillion market cap club — and now it’s passed both companies to become the most valuable public company by market cap in the world.

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Microsoft manager Brett Ostrum with a Surface laptop and tablet that are designed for use with artificial intelligence.
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Microsoft’s “year of the AI PC” is coming to stores, and one of its exclusive retail partners is preparing tens of thousands employees to sell it to you.

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Autonomous truck startup Waabi aims to launch its vehicles in 2025, just four years after it was founded.
Autonomous truck startup Waabi aims to launch its vehicles in 2025, just four years after it was founded.
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More self-driving trucks are coming to Texas next year, as Canadian startup Waabi is getting ready to put its artificial intelligence-powered fleet on the road.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during OpenAI DevDay on November 6, 2023 in San Francisco, California.
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Microsoft is undoubtedly a frontrunner in the generative artificial intelligence race — and it could be the tech giant’s “iPhone Moment,” analysts said.

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McDonald’s is scrapping the AI drive-thru systems it was testing at more than 100 locations after a series of public blunders.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during the Nvidia GTC Artificial Intelligence Conference at SAP Center on March 18, 2024 in San Jose, California.
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Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang is recruiting for his $3.2 trillion company, and says he’s a “very nice boss” who is “universally loved.”

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