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šŸ¤– OpenAI Fires Researchers for Leaking Information

PLUS: Appleā€™s AI-Focused M4 Chips for Macs, Mistralā€™s Massive Open-Source LLM

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In todayā€™s AI Report:

  • šŸ§ÆOpenAI Fires Researchers for Leaking Information

  • šŸŽAppleā€™s AI-Focused M4 Chips for Macs

  • šŸš€Mistralā€™s Massive Open-Source LLM

  • šŸ› 5 Trending Tools

  • šŸ’°Venture Capital Updates

  • šŸ’¼Whoā€™s Hiring?

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šŸ—žRECENT NEWS

OPENAI

šŸ§ÆOpenAI Fires Researchers for Leaking Information

Image Source: Benedikt von Loebell/World Economic Forum

According to The Information, OpenAI fired two researchers for leaking sensitive information about the companyā€™s roadmap to external sources.

Key Details:
  • Leopold Aschenbrenner was on the superalignment team and focused on weak-to-strong generalization: when a less powerful AI model (e.g., ā€œweak supervisorā€) guides a more powerful AI model (e.g., ā€œstrong learnerā€) to achieve better generalization on new tasks.

  • Pavel Izmailov was on the superintelligent alignment team to develop scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI models smarter than us.

  • The nature of the leaked information is unknown. However, internal sources claim they were influential in leaking the Q-Star (Q*) project during OpenAIā€™s internal turmoil in 2023.

Why Itā€™s Important:
  • OpenAI doesnā€™t seem open about sharing research roadmaps containing sensitive details about future projects, algorithms, and functionalities to maintain a competitive edge in AI advancements.

  • In 2015, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman approached Elon Musk to create an open-source, non-profit company to explore how Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) could benefit humanity.

  • Muskā€™s lawsuit alleges that OpenAI ā€œset the founding agreement aflameā€ in 2023 by transforming into a closed-source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft.

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APPLE

šŸŽAppleā€™s AI-Focused M4 Chips for Macs

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Apple is reportedly preparing to overhaul its entire lineup of Macs with AI-focused M4 chips to boost performance, enhance power efficiency, and streamline on-device AI tasks.

Key Details:
  • Last year, Apple released the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips, showcasing tighter transistor densities with faster performance and better battery life.

  • The new M4-equipped Macs will be offered in three tiers: entry-level Donan, high-performance Brava, and top-end Hidra.

  • Apple aims to release the updated computers late this year and early next year in the new iMacs, an entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro, a high-performance 16-inch MacBook Pro, and the Mac Minis.

Why Itā€™s Important:
  • Apple plans to boost sluggish computer sales by offering a new family of in-house processes designed to enhance on-device AI tasks and integrate them into the next version of MacOS.

  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will use an improved version of the 3nm process, which creates transistors that are 3 nanometers (nm) wide. This process allows more transistors to be packed onto a chip, developing faster and more powerful chips.

AI RESEARCH

šŸš€Mistralā€™s Massive Open-Source LLM

Mistral AI released Mixtral 8x22B, a massive Large Language Model (LLM) with over 176 billion parameters and a context window size of 65,000 tokens.

The AI model leverages a Sparse Mixture of Experts (SMoE): multiple specialized sub-networks (i.e., ā€œexpertsā€) that tackle specific parts of a userā€™s query to improve the efficiency and performance of AI models.

Popular conversational chatbots like OpenAIā€™s ChatGPT partially rely on ā€œcompletion modelsā€ for core text generation. The main drawback is that they donā€™t work well with empty contexts.

Mixtral 8x22B is an ā€œautocomplete modelā€ that predicts the rest of a userā€™s input to speed up data entry and reduce errors.

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šŸ’°VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES

  • Procurement Sciences AI raises $10M Series A to revolutionize the government contracting business-development process.

  • Oden Technologies secures $28.5M Series B to launch a suite of AI products for manufacturing.

  • Elon Musk seeks $4B to enhance xAIā€™s Grok to rival OpenAIā€™s ChatGPT.

šŸ’¼WHOā€™S HIRING?

  • PatientPoint (Cincinnati, OH): Data Quality Intern, Summer 2024

  • Neuralink (Fremont, CA): Corporate Accounting Intern, Fall 2024

  • M7 Health (New York City, NY): Software Engineer, New Grad

  • Shield AI (Dallas, TX): Program Finance Manager

  • Rad AI (Remote): Marketing Operations Lead

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