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In today’s Daily Report:
🇨🇳China’s ByteDance Exploits AI Chip Loophole in U.S. Restrictions
🗣️AI-Powered Digital Avatars Create Natural Gestures
✋Non-Profit Group Is Blocking OpenAI’s For-Profit Transition?
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🗞RECENT NEWS
BYTEDANCE
🇨🇳China’s ByteDance Exploits AI Chip Loophole in U.S. Restrictions
Image Source: Canva’s AI Image Generators/Magic Media
China’s Internet Giant ByteDance is storing GPUs in data centers located in other regions like Southeast Asia to exploit a loophole in U.S. restrictions.
Key Details:
Due to national security concerns, the U.S. prohibits AI chip firms like Nvidia from directly selling GPUs to Chinese companies.
However, these U.S. restrictions don’t prevent Chinese companies from storing GPUs in data centers located in other regions like Southeast Asia.
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) can perform Parallel Processing or mathematical calculations simultaneously, making them essential for AI projects.
Why It’s Important:
ByteDance plans to spend over $7 billion on Nvidia’s GPUs in 2025 by exploiting this loophole in U.S. restrictions.
China doesn’t possess the correct knowledge or infrastructure to create AI chips. So, without Nvidia’s GPUs, ByteDance must halt AI projects.
AI RESEARCH
🗣️AI-Powered Digital Avatars Create Natural Gestures
Image Source: University of Stanford (“Stanford”)/New Scientist/“AI-Powered Digital Avatars Can Gesture Naturally as They Speak”/Screenshot
Researchers at the University of Stanford (“Stanford”) developed an AI model that enables digital avatars to create gestures that match spoken words.
Key Details:
As humans talk, we gesture to help convey our meaning. However, when digital avatars attempt to replicate this behavior, they make generic movements regardless of what they’re saying.
To make digital avatars gesture more realistically, an AI model was trained on a massive dataset of:
Audiobooks: 1,000 hours of spoken language.
Motion Capture: 60 hours of human gestures with corresponding speech patterns.
When given a text or audio input, the AI model generates a set of instructions for the digital avatar’s gestures.
These instructions control the digital avatar’s hand movements, arm swings, and head nods.
Why It’s Important:
This AI model allows digital avatars to generate a sequence of gestures that align with speech patterns.
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says we’ll be able to send a digital avatar of ourselves to meetings within the next five years. Having digital avatars with realistic gestures that match spoken words is critical for this to happen.
AI DRAMA
✋Non-Profit Group Is Blocking OpenAI’s For-Profit Transition?
Image Source: OpenAI/YouTube/OpenAI DevDay 2024/“Fireside Chat With OpenAI CEO Sam Altman”/Screenshot
Encode, a non-profit group that advocates for AI safety, has joined Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s legal effort to prevent OpenAI’s For-Profit transition.
OpenAI recently raised $6.6 billion at a $157 billion valuation. Now, the company is officially in the process of restructuring from a Non-Profit Initiative into a For-Profit Framework.
In response, Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, alleging that Altman breached OpenAI’s “founding agreement” by transforming the Research Lab into a closed-source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. The lawsuit explains that a Research Lab has never “gone from a tax-exempt charity to a $157 billion for-profit, market-paralyzing gorgon in just eight years.”
Encode supported Musk by submitting a proposed brief to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that states: “OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, claim to be developing society-transforming technology, and those claims should be taken seriously. If the world truly is at the cusp of a new age of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), then the public has a profound interest in having the technology controlled by a public charity legally bound to prioritize safety and the public benefit rather than financial returns for a few privileged investors.”
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