🤖 OpenAI Forces NDA Documents on Employees

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In today’s AI Report:

• 🔐OpenAI Forces NDA Documents on Employees

• 🍎Apple’s WWDC24 AI Leaks

• 🗣Cohere’s New Multilingual LLMs

• 🛠5 Trending Tools

• 💰Venture Capital Updates

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

OPENAI

🔐OpenAI Forces NDA Documents on Employees

On Friday, Vox reported that OpenAI employees who wanted to leave the startup were confronted with expansive and restrictive exit documents.

Key Details:

• These exit documents contained a non-disparagement clause to prevent employees from criticizing OpenAI after departing the startup.

• If they refused to sign the exit documents, OpenAI threatened to take away their vested equity in the startup, potentially losing millions of dollars.

• OpenAI recently completed a deal with venture firm Thrive Capital that values the startup at $80 billion, nearly tripling OpenAI’s valuation in less than 12 months.

• Like Silicon Valley startups, OpenAI employees receive most of their expected compensation in equity. Once the equity has “vested” based on the schedule in their employment contracts, they’re entitled to that portion of the equity.

• 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 or communications. I didn’t know this was happening, and I should’ve.”

Why It’s Important:

• Despite OpenAI executives claiming they were unaware of the non-disparagement clause, exit documents with signatures from OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap and OpenAI CSO Jason Kwon state: “If you have any vested Units…you’re required to sign a release of claims agreement within 60 days to retain such Units.”

• Now we know why former OpenAI employees remained quiet and posted positive messages across social media after being laid off or quitting.

🚨View an OpenAI exit document here.

🩺 PULSE CHECK

APPLE

🍎Apple’s WWDC24 AI Leaks

Apple plans to unveil several AI-enabled features during the company’s 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC24) in June, including Project Greymatter and AI integrations for iOS 18 and MacOS 15.

Key Details:

• Project Greymatter will merge AI add-ons into core iOS 18 functionalities and apps (e.g., Safari, Photos, and Notes) to automate tasks like texting friends, calling relatives, adding calendar invites, or creating to-do lists.

• Apple will roll out GenAI emojis, allowing users to create custom emojis on the fly.

• An AI-enabled “Smart Recaps” feature will generate summaries of missed notifications, lengthy text messages, and other forms of media.

• Apple’s Reference Resolution as Language Modeling (ReALM) converts on-device screen information into text inputs, bypassing bulky image recognition parameters when processing user requests.

• Siri struggles to understand references in conversations. For example, if an iPhone user asks Siri, “Call the restaurant I visited last week,” the digital assistant struggles to recall the restaurant.

• ReALM solves this issue by converting all contextual information into text, including open apps (e.g., iMessage or Apple Maps), empowering Siri to understand references.

Why It’s Important:

• ReALM addresses Siri’s limitation of understanding context, improving the virtual assistant’s ability to respond to voice commands and offer tailored advice for specific situations.

• The iOS 18 and MacOS 15 operating systems will include software applications that determine whether an AI task should be handled on the device or via the cloud to achieve optimal computing efficiency.

AI RESEARCH

🗣Cohere’s New Multilingual LLMs

Cohere For AI unveiled Aya 23, a new family of state-of-the-art multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs) that support 23 different languages.

Aya 23 is an open-source science movement with over 3,000 collaborators worldwide. Its goal is to build the most expansive multilingual instruction fine-tuning dataset.

Aya 23 focuses on depth with an advanced 35 billion parameter model based on the “Command-R” architecture.

“Command-R” is a GenAI model optimized for long context tasks, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): a new AI framework that combines LLMs with external knowledge bases to improve the accuracy of AI model responses.

🛠TRENDING TOOLS

🪴Nomic refines your data to fuel your AI models.

📻AI Jukebox is an in-browser text-to-music generator.

🎨Remix leverages text prompts to remix AI images creatively.

🤝Layerpath creates interactive product demonstrations in minutes.

📑Afforai helps you search, summarize, and translate knowledge from hundreds of documents.

🔮Browse our always Up-To-Date AI Tools Database.

💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES

• Portal raises $3M to expand its AI-driven fitness solutions.

• Vercel secures a $250M Series E to accelerate AI and security innovation for next-generation applications.

• Healthcare technology firm Atropos Health raises a $33M Series B to generate personalized, real-world evidence.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• Debbie (Austin, TX): Marketing and Growth Intern, Fall 2024

• Hippocratic AI (Palo Alto, CA): Research Scientist Intern, AI, Fall 2024

• Tesla (Palo Alto, CA): Software Engineer Intern, AI Inference, Fall 2024

• Magna (New York, NY): Software Engineer, New Grad

• StepStone Group (San Diego, CA): Data Analytics/Reporting Analyst, New Grad

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