Week 27: What’s Happening in AI

Welcome to What's Happening in AI. In this week's edition, we cover the US Justice Department's new Chief AI Officer, military drone strikes with AI, and Microsoft diversifying by investing in Mistral

Policy

United States

The Justice Department announced Princeton’s Jonathan Mayer as Chief AI Officer to “keep pace with rapidly evolving scientific and technological developments.” 

Commerce Secretary Raimondo announced over 600 companies requested more than double the available funds from the Chips Act.

Europe

Resource: The EU’s AI Act and How Companies Can Achieve Compliance

AI development + deployment

Governance

• Google Chatbot’s A.I. Images Put People of Color in Nazi-Era Uniform

• Microsoft Announces Principles to Foster Innovation, Competition in AI

• Resource: Microsoft Releases its Internal Generative AI Red Teaming Tool to the Public

Open-Source

• ServiceNow, Hugging Face, and NVIDIA Release New Open-Access LLMs to Help Developers Tap Generative AI to Build Enterprise Applications

• Google Is Giving Away Some of the A.I. That Powers Chatbots

• Redis Unveils Redis Vector Library for Generative AI Development

Elections

• AI Chatbots Not Ready for Election Prime Time, Study Shows

Capacity

• There's a Power Struggle Brewing Over Crypto and AI — Literally

• AI Is Exploding Data Center Energy Use. A Google-Created Technique May Help

Chips

• Intel’s CEO Says AI Is the Key to the Company’s Comeback. More here.

• Interview with Jensen Huang: Nvidia Hardware Is Eating the World

• Korean AI Chip Startup DeepX Nears $90 Million

Investment

• Microsoft partners with Mistral in second AI deal beyond OpenAI

• Inside the funding frenzy at Anthropic, one of AI’s hottest startups

• Huawei’s cloud unit banks on booming AI demand with global footprint expansion in Europe and Middle East

• Drop In Venture Funding To Black-Founded Startups Greatly Outpaces Market Decline

Where AI is going

Security

• US Used AI to Help Find Middle East Targets for Airstrikes

• Here’s how AI experts think ChatGPT might help the military

• China’s Rush to Dominate A.I. Comes With a Twist: It Depends on U.S. Technology

Data

• Reddit says it’s made $203M so far licensing its data

• DatologyAI is building tech to automatically curate AI training datasets

• External Data and AI Are Making Each Other More Valuable

New applications

• How Indian AI chatbot could be ‘game-changer’ for women’s access to sexual health information

• Deutsche Telekom showcases app-less AI smartphone concept

Raises and releases

• Raises: Baseimmune raises $10M to use AI to develop new vaccines, Abridge raises $150 mln for AI model for clinicians, Work Assistant Glean Grabs $200M At $2.2B Valuation

• Releases: China's Honor globally launches AI-enhanced Magic 6 Pro smartphone, Lenovo doubles down on AI, Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant, Stable Diffusion 3 arrives to solidify early lead in AI imagery

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