Qatar’s sovereign-wealth fund, Qatar Investment Authority, and investment firms Valor Equity Partners, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz are expected to participate in the round, according to people familiar with the matter. The financing brings the total amount xAI has raised to $11 billion this year. Link It appears friends
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Eva Rodriguez de Luis for Genbeta: I have compared Kagi with DeepL and Google translator and I have been surprised: translation has a new king Original SpanishLink Translated in English link Translate.kagi.com is free, no account required.
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Vlad Prelovac, Kagi founder, at Random but Memorable: Vlad: In every transaction, there is the currency. And so, because the price of this is zero, people assume that there is no currency involved because we usually measure value in monetary terms. “The truth is, though, that there is always a
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Techdirt: “Judge: Just Because AI Trains On Your Publication, Doesn’t Mean It Infringes On Your Copyright” Part of the problem is that these lawsuits assume, incorrectly, that these AI services really are, as some people falsely call them, “plagiarism machines.” The assumption is that they’re just copying everything
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OpenAI has unveiled an “Infrastructure Blueprint for the U.S.” aimed at maintaining the country’s lead in AI over competitors like China. The plan, which includes initiatives like AI economic zones and a North American Compact for AI, emphasizes the potential of AI to revitalize the American Dream and
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Of course, like all booms, there’s going to be a bust. The AI boom will result in unmet expectations, much like the internet in the 1990s. The cost structure of AI is wonky for now. A lot of energy is required to make it all work. Link Quite a
Noam Brown, via Reuters: “It turned out that having a bot think for just 20 seconds in a hand of poker got the same boosting performance as scaling up the model by 100,000x and training it for 100,000 times longer,” said Noam Brown, a researcher at OpenAI who
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And here’s the thing – we all know that GPT-3 was vastly better than GPT-2. And we all know that GPT-4 (released thirteen months ago) was vastly better than GPT-3. But what has happened since? I could be persuaded that on some measures there was a doubling of capabilities for
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Threads is planning to kick off the effort by letting a small number of advertisers create and publish ads on the app starting in January, one of those people said. Link Today was an ads day
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It seems they are working on a web version, just confirmed on Threads
Kagi Small Web | Kagi Blog But we also recognize that the “small web” is the lifeblood of the internet, and the web we are fighting for. Those who contribute to it have already taken their own leaps of faith, often taking time and effort to create, without the assurance of