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In todayās AI Report:
š§ÆOpenAI Fires Researchers for Leaking Information
šAppleās AI-Focused M4 Chips for Macs
šMistralās Massive Open-Source LLM
š 5 Trending Tools
š°Venture Capital Updates
š¼Whoās Hiring?
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šRECENT NEWS
OPENAI
š§ÆOpenAI Fires Researchers for Leaking Information

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According to The Information, OpenAI fired two researchers for leaking sensitive information about the companyās 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., āweak supervisorā) guides a more powerful AI model (e.g., āstrong 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 OpenAIās internal turmoil in 2023.
Why Itās Important:
OpenAI doesnāt 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.
Muskās lawsuit alleges that OpenAI āset the founding agreement aflameā in 2023 by transforming into a closed-source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft.
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APPLE
šAppleās 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 Itās 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
šMistralās 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., āexpertsā) that tackle specific parts of a userās query to improve the efficiency and performance of AI models.
Popular conversational chatbots like OpenAIās ChatGPT partially rely on ācompletion modelsā for core text generation. The main drawback is that they donāt work well with empty contexts.
Mixtral 8x22B is an āautocomplete modelā that predicts the rest of a userās input to speed up data entry and reduce errors.
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š°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 xAIās Grok to rival OpenAIās ChatGPT.
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