🤖 Antitrust Probes into Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia

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In today’s AI Report:

• 🦺Antitrust Probes into Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia

• 📊Asana Introduces “AI Teammates”

• 💊AI Predicts New Antibiotics?!

• 🛠5 Trending Tools

• 💰Venture Capital Updates

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION (FTC)

🦺Antitrust Probes into Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are set to open antitrust investigations into Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia.

Key Details:

• FTC Chair Lina Khan announced the inquiry in January during the agency’s technology summit on AI, explaining: “Our study will shed light on whether investments and partnerships pursued by dominant companies risk distorting innovation and undermining fair competition.”

• The FTC inquiry will examine how these investments impact the competitive landscape of emerging technologies by allowing established companies to acquire potential rivals.

• Regulators will apply antitrust laws to these deals to determine if technology companies are buying competitors or leveraging acquisitions to expand into new markets.

• For example, Microsoft invested $13 billion in OpenAI to leverage the startup’s AI models to develop products and services like Microsoft Copilot. In return, Microsoft’s stock achieved a $3 trillion market cap.

• A recent lawsuit by Elon Musk alleges OpenAI has “set the founding agreement aflame” in 2023 by transforming into a closed-source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft.

• Technology giants like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta are racing to integrate AI models to ensure they don’t fall behind in a market predicted to reach $1 trillion in revenue within a decade.

Why It’s Important:

• Microsoft’s vice chair and president, Brad Smith, stated: “Our partnership with OpenAI has fostered AI innovation and competition while preserving independence for both companies. That’s very different from an acquisition.”

• This inquiry is an effort by governing bodies to understand how companies use partnerships, investments, and acquisitions to expand their influence in AI markets.

🩺 PULSE CHECK

ASANA

📊Asana Introduces “AI Teammates”

Work management platform Asana introduced “AI Teammates,” adaptable AI collaborators that help teams maximize their impact and achieve goals faster.

Key Details:

• “AI Teammates” advise on priorities, power workflows, and even take action on work.

• “AI Teammates” can scale workflows by taking on tasks, triaging requests, and assigning work.

• With “AI Teammates,” the level of customization is limitless. Workflows can be tailored for every role, every process, and every industry.

• “AI Teammates” can even be used in “multi-player” mode, where multiple people can collaborate with AI add-ons in real-time.

• Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder and CEO at Asana, explained: “The future of work is about combining humans and AI to work together effortlessly.”

Why It’s Important:

• “AI Teammates” is a prime example of how to integrate AI-enabled features into employee workflows to drive productivity and innovation gains that bring value to a company.

• “AI Teammates” offers a glimpse into how AI models can tackle critical business workflows like product launches, strategic planning, new hire onboarding, and creative production.

AI RESEARCH

💊AI Predicts New Antibiotics?!

Researchers published a study outlining the use of an AI algorithm to mine all the microbial diversity on earth, leading to the discovery of nearly a million new molecules.

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) caused over 1.2 million deaths in 2019. AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites evolve over time and no longer respond to medicines.

Researchers developed the AI algorithm by leveraging AI models to analyze publicly available data on over 100,000 genomes (i.e., the entire set of DNA instructions found in a cell).

Then, the AI algorithm predicted which parts of the microbial genomes could potentially produce antibiotic compounds.

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💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES

• Qargo raises a $14M Series A to digitize and decarbonize the trucking industry.

• Prolific Machines secures a $55M Series B to grow lab proteins for food and medicine.

• Kleiner Perkins leads a $14.4M Seed Round into Fizz, a credit-building debit card aimed at Gen Z.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• Businessolver (Remote): Data & Database Engineer Intern, Summer 2024

• Samba TV (Los Angeles, CA): Programmatic Analyst Intern, Summer 2024

• Tesla (Palo Alto, CA): Technical Program Management, Cell Engineering, Fall 2024

• BMW (Oxnard, CA): Computer Science Emissions Lab Intern, Fall 2024

• TikTok (Los Angeles, CA): Product Designer Intern, Fall 2024

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