It wasn’t the best week for AI chatbots, which were making high-profile mistakes in both text and video. But Nvidia joined the $2-trillion club, as Wall Street’s favorite AI chipmaker beat sky-high earnings expectations and the stock kept rallying. And we take a look at the life of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Check out the slideshow above for that and more of this week’s news in AI.
Google said it was pausing its AI model’s ability to generate images of people after users pointed out that its Gemini AI was making historically inaccurate images of people, such as racially diverse Nazi-era German soldiers.
ChatGPT started throwing out “unexpected responses,” according to OpenAI’s status page. Users posted screenshots of their ChatGPT conversations full of wild, nonsensical answers from the AI chatbot.
AI chatbots made headlines this week with a range of glaring flubs that were hard to look past. Tech companies are rushing to show off their non-offensive, error-free AI chatbots. They’re hoping to show investors that the billions of dollars spent on this technology was a good investment. This week, AI chatbots showed they are not ready for the spotlight just yet.
The chipmaker powering the AI models taking the world by storm just made its own mark with a record valuation. Semiconductor firm Nvidia became the first in the chip industry to reach a $2 trillion valuation — driven by the boom in the AI industry.
Before leading OpenAI, Sam Altman was the president of Y Combinator, a startup accelerator that has launched companies including Airbnb, Instacart, and Dropbox. Now Altman is leading one of the hottest and most important companies of the moment: OpenAI, which has launched ChatGPT and, most recently, the AI video generator Sora.
When it comes to generative AI, the companies that come to mind are Google, Meta, and OpenAI. But don’t count Amazon out of the AI race. One of Amazon’s biggest focuses is in cloud computing, where the company’s Amazon Web Services is a market leader. The online tech and retail giant has also built in-house chips to power the cloud and has partnered with OpenAI rival Anthropic on infrastructure that enables large-scale AI modeling.
Microsoft is tapping semiconductor pioneer Intel in its ambitions to make more chips as it races to develop further AI models. The company plans to use Intel’s 18A manufacturing technology to make a future chip that has been designed in-house, Microsoft and Intel said, but didn’t specify what the chip would be used for.
Reddit announced it is partnering with Google to let the search engine train its AI models with its user-generated content. The partnership is reportedly a $60 million-per-year deal — a move that could give Reddit a financial boost as it prepares to go public.
