Plus: Apple has been developing AI chips for data centers, the WSJ reports.
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| Here’s a look at today's AI briefing: - OpenAI creating ChatGPT web search with citations.
- Apple unveils M4 chip with advanced AI capabilities.
- Holistic secures $200M for "multi-agent" models.
- Apple developing AI chips for data centers.
- OpenAI tool can detect DALL-E 3 images.
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| 1 | | OpenAI is creating a new web-searching feature for ChatGPT that cites sources like Wikipedia and blogs, a source told Bloomberg. One version of the tool also displays relevant images alongside written answers. More: - A previous report by The Information said OpenAI is developing a web search product, which could use Microsoft's Bing.
- Some social media users have noted the existence of a web page search.chatgpt.com, which was temporarily re-routed to chatgpt.com over the weekend.
- ChatGPT has a limited online search feature, which sometimes includes citations, but it's only available to paying users.
Zoom out: - The feature would put ChatGPT in competition with Perplexity's AI-powered search engine and Google's Search Generative Experience, which has been undergoing limited testing.
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| 2 | | Apple announced its new M4 chip with advanced AI capabilities. The chip is now available in Apple's latest iPad Pro tablets, with additional hardware such as Macs expected to follow. More: - Apple called the custom M4 processor an “outrageously powerful chip for AI."
- The M4 contains a faster neural engine to power AI tasks, such as real-time audio captions, and a feature to identify objects in photos and videos.
- The engine, capable of up to 38 trillion operations per second, is "more powerful than any neural processing unit in any AI PC today," said Apple's Tim Millet.
- Apple could announce AI features that take advantage of the new chip at its June developer conference.
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| 3 | | French AI startup Holistic secured $200M in the initial phase of its funding round. Bloomberg sources say investors committed $80M in equity and $120M in convertible debt to Holistic, primarily to purchase computing power. More: - Holistic, co-founded by former DeepMind scientists, aims to create "multi-agent" models where multiple AI systems interact.
- The Paris startup plans to develop an AI model with capabilities others have struggled with.
- This includes memory, planning, and “tactical decision making," according to an investor presentation reported by Bloomberg.
- The presentation says Holistic builds "genuine AGI capabilities."
- Investors reportedly include Accel Partners LP and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
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| 4 | | Apple has been developing AI chips for data centers, according to the WSJ. The custom server hardware would run AI programs in data centers, though it's unclear if the chips will ever be deployed. More: - The project is internally code-named Project ACDC, or Apple Chips in Data Centers.
- Apple would leverage its chip design expertise to develop the server processor.
- The chip will likely focus on AI inference rather than model training.
Zoom out: - If successful, Apple would join Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta, which already use their own semiconductors in data centers to varying degrees.
- However, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman countered that a prior Apple server chip project, aimed at curbing its reliance on chips like Google's, was canceled.
- He expressed skepticism about Apple developing the chips due to high costs and its focus on on-device AI.
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| 5 | | OpenAI is launching a tool to detect images generated by its DALL-E 3 technology. The image detection classifier “predicts the likelihood that an image was generated” with DALL-E 3. More: - In internal testing, the tool correctly identified 98% of DALL-E 3 generated images.
- Minor image modifications like cropping slightly lowered detection rates to 95-97%, while hue adjustments dropped it to 82%.
- The tool accurately classified only 5-10% of images produced by other AI models.
- OpenAI has opened applications for the detector to its first group of testers, including research labs and journalism nonprofits.
Zoom out: - OpenAI also announced plans for tamper-resistant watermarking for digital content photos and audio.
- Concerns about upcoming elections are "absolutely driving a bunch of this work,” OpenAI's David Robinson told The WSJ.
- A rise in AI-generated content online has heightened concerns about election misinformation as voters in over 60 countries head to the polls this year.
- A UChicago Harris/AP-NORC Poll found that 63% of U.S. adults believe tech companies bear "a lot" of responsibility to prevent this type of misinformation.
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| 7 | | QUICK HITS: - Microsoft deployed a GPT4-based model, isolated from the internet, for U.S. intelligence agencies to analyze top-secret data securely.
- A U.S. State Department arms control official called on China and Russia to pledge, like the U.S. and its allies, that only humans will make nuclear weapon deployment decisions.
- Google unveiled its latest budget smartphone, the Pixel 8a, which incorporates Google AI tools such as Magic Editor, Circle to Search, and Best Take.
- AI-generated Met Gala photos of Katy Perry, Rihanna, and Dua Lipa are circulating the internet, with some users deceived before the images were labeled as digitally created.
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 | AI and technology writer | | Beth is a contributing editor and writer of Inside's AI and Tech newsletters. She has written for publications including USA Today, the Arizona Business Gazette, and The Arizona Republic, where she received recognition with a Pulitzer Prize nomination and a First Amendment Award for collaborative reporting on state pension cost increases. You can reach her at Beth.Duckett@yahoo.com. | | This newsletter was edited by Beth Duckett | |
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