🤖 Mysterious AI Models Appear in LMSYS Chatbot Arena

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In today’s AI Report:

• 🔎Mysterious AI Models Appear in LMSYS Chatbot Arena

• 👨‍⚖️OpenAI Whistleblowers File Complaint

• 🦾Artificial “Muscles” for Safer, Softer Robots

• 🛠5 Trending Tools

• 💰Venture Capital Updates

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

OPENAI

🔎Mysterious AI Models Appear in LMSYS Chatbot Arena

A series of mysterious AI models called “upcoming-gpt-mini,” “column-r,” and “column-u” appeared in the LMSYS Chatbot Arena.

Key Details:

• The new AI models were available in the LMSYS Chatbot Arena’s “Battle” section, which allows website visitors to compare how AI models tackle user queries to generate outputs.

• “upcoming-gpt-mini” identifies itself as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, while “column-r” and “column-u” refused to reveal any identifying details.

• “upcoming-gpt-mini” is a cost-effective Small Language Model (SLM) that requires less compute and energy to operate.

• “The process is ludicrously energy intensive, with experts estimating the AI industry could soon suck up as much electricity as an entire country,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

• OpenAI has previously tested unreleased AI models in the LMSYS Chatbot Arena, with “gpt2-chatbot” appearing before releasing GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”).

Why It’s Important:

• Q* (“Q-Star”) refers to OpenAI’s project to develop an AI algorithm that automates processes and solves some of the world’s most pressing issues.

• OpenAI users speculate “upcoming-gpt-mini” creates the conditions for Q* (“Q-Star”) to become a reality. OpenAI will use “upcoming-gpt-mini” to reduce energy requirements and save compute while incorporating Q* (“Q-Star”) variants to equip the AI model with superintelligence.

OPENAI

👨‍⚖️OpenAI Whistleblowers File Complaint

OpenAI whistleblowers filed a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), alleging the company illegally prohibited employees from warning regulators about AI risks.

Key Details:

• The whistleblowers claim OpenAI issued overly restrictive employment, severance, and non-disclosure agreements with penalties to prevent employees from criticizing OpenAI or communicating securities violations with the SEC.

• According to a seven-page letter sent to SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey earlier this month, OpenAI incentivized staff to waive their federal rights to whistleblower compensation.

• OpenAI’s exit documents also contained a non-disparagement clause. If employees refuse to sign the exit documents, OpenAI threatens to take away their vested equity in the startup.

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X: “There was a provision about potential equity cancellation in our previous exit documents. It shouldn’t have been something we had in our documents.”

Why It’s Important:

• “These contracts send a message that we don’t want employees talking to federal regulators,” said one of the anonymous whistleblowers. “I don’t believe AI companies can build safe technologies for public interest if they shield themselves from scrutiny and dissent.”

• OpenAI spokesperson Hannah Wong explained: “Our whistleblower policy protects employees’ rights to make protected disclosures.”

🩺 PULSE CHECK

AI RESEARCH

🦾Artificial “Muscles” for Safer, Softer Robots

Northwestern University (NU) engineers developed a new device called “Soft Actuator” that enables robots to move by expanding and contracting like human muscles.

“Soft Actuator” is a cylindrical, worm-like, soft artificial robot bicep made of 3D-printed rubber that mimics muscle movements.

In experiments, the cylindrical, worm-like, soft artificial robot bicep navigated tight, hairpin curves in a narrow pipe-like environment. It also repeatedly lifted a 500-gram (gm) weight 5,000 times.

The “Soft Actuator” could be used to develop inexpensive, flexible robots that are safer and more practical for real-world applications.

“If a soft artificial robot bicep hit a person, it wouldn’t hurt nearly as much as getting hit with a rigid, hard robot component. Our Soft Actuator could be used in robots designed for human-centric environments,” said Ryan Truby, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at NU.

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💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES

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