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Eric Schmidt’s Warnings About China’s AI Industry Revealed in Emails, Alongside His Efforts to Establish Connections

Contributor — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 11:00:00 +0000

In November 2019, the US government’s National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), an influential body chaired by former Google CEO and executive chairman Eric Schmidt, warned that China was using artificial intelligence to “advance an autocratic agenda.” Just two months earlier, Schmidt was also seeking potential personal connections to China’s AI industry on a...

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The Process Behind Developing the World’s Most Dominant Open Source AI Model

Contributor — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000

This past Monday, about a dozen engineers and executives at data science and AI company Databricks gathered in conference rooms connected via Zoom to learn if they had succeeded in building a top artificial intelligence language model. The team had spent months, and about $10 million, training DBRX, a large language model similar in design...

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The Founder of Perplexity Draws Inspiration from Sundar Pichai and Embarks on a Search Reinvention Competition

Contributor — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Aravind Srinivas credits Google CEO Sundar Pichai for giving him the freedom to eat eggs. Srinivas remembers the moment seven years ago when an interview with Pichai popped up in his YouTube feed. His vegetarian upbringing in India had excluded eggs, as it had for many in the country, but now, in his early twenties,...

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