In other news, several publishers, including Condé Nast and Vox, have sued AI company Cohere for copyright violations, alleging unauthorized use of copyrighted articles to train its language models. Additionally, Figure AI is reportedly in talks to raise $1.5 billion in venture capital, while AI legal company Luminance has secured $75 million in series C funding. Elon Musk's unsolicited bid for OpenAI's nonprofit controlling entity has stirred attention, potentially complicating OpenAI's transition to a for-profit company. Lastly, generative AI is being used in romance scams, with AI chatbots creating deceptive scripts and fake profiles on dating apps.
Key takeaways:
- Mira Murati, former CTO of OpenAI, launched a new venture called Thinking Machine Labs to build accessible AI systems.
- Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, launched a new AI model called Grok-3, which can process complex questions but has not been independently evaluated yet.
- A group of publishers, including Condé Nast and Vox, sued AI company Cohere for copyright violations related to scraping copyrighted articles.
- Elon Musk made a $97.4 billion bid for the nonprofit controlling OpenAI, causing a stir and putting pressure on OpenAI's transition to a for-profit company.