In other AI news, AI newsreader Particle was launched, Writer raised $200 million, AWS launched Build on Trainium, Red Hat is acquiring Neural Magic, and X is testing a free version of its AI chatbot, Grok. Anthropic is partnering with Palantir and AWS to provide U.S. intelligence and defense agencies access to its AI models. Google claims to have developed an improved AI model for flood forecasting, and AI developer Rami Seid released a Minecraft-simulating model. DeepMind released the code for AlphaFold 3, its AI-powered protein prediction model.
Key takeaways:
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei believes that scaling up models is a viable path towards more capable AI and doesn't think a shortage of data will present a challenge to AI development.
- Amodei anticipates that a superintelligent AI, exceeding human-level performance on a number of tasks, will be created by 2026 or 2027, and expresses concerns about the potential abuse of power.
- Google has developed an improved AI model for flood forecasting that can predict conditions accurately up to seven days in advance in dozens of countries.
- AI developer Rami Seid has released a Minecraft-simulating model, Lucid v1, that can run on a single Nvidia RTX 4090 and emulates Minecraft's game world in real time.