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š¤ OpenAIās $103 Billion Valuation?!
PLUS: AI Creates DOOM Video Game, Magicās New 100 Million Context Window
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In todayās AI Report:
š®AI Creates DOOM Video Game
šµOpenAIās $103 Billion Valuation?!
š§āāļøMagicās New 100 Million Context Window
š 5 Trending Tools
š°Venture Capital Updates
š¼Whoās Hiring?
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šRECENT NEWS
GOOGLE DEEPMIND
š®AI Creates DOOM Video Game
Google DeepMind researchers developed āGameNGen,ā an AI-powered game engine that generates interactive video game environments.
Key Details:
Video games are manually written around the following Game Loop:
Gather User Inputs
Update Game State
Render It to Screen Pixels
This Game Loop creates the illusion of an interactive virtual world for the player.
However, the hardware just emulates the manually written video game software.
āGameNGenā can create entirely new video game worlds in real-time tailored to each playerās decisions, including levels, characters, and gameplay mechanics.
āGameNGenā can interactively simulate the classic video game DOOM at over 20 frames per second on a single Tensor Processing Unit (TPU).
Why Itās Important:
āGameNGenā is the first AI-powered game engine to generate playable video games in real-time without any underlying manually written software.
It can theoretically generate infinite video game worlds, ensuring thereās always something new to explore.
šØWatch Google DeepMindās āGameNGenā gameplay here.
OPENAI
šµOpenAIās $103 Billion Valuation?!
Image Source: Canvaās AI Image Generators/Magic Media
OpenAI is reportedly raising a new funding round that would value the startup at more than $100 billion.
Key Details:
Private documents show that OpenAI shareholders plan to sell their shares at a fixed price to outside investors, which would value the startup at $103 billion.
Thrive Capital is leading the new funding round and will invest $1 billion.
Tech Giant Microsoft also plans to participate in the new funding round.
Itās important to note that investors donāt own any private equity since OpenAI is technically a non-profit organization.
In 2019, OpenAI transitioned from a non-profit structure to a ācapped profitā framework called OpenAI LP to āraise investment capital and attract employees with startup-like equity.ā
Microsoft currently holds a 49% stake in OpenAI, having invested $13 billion into the startup since 2019.
OpenAIās annualized revenue (i.e., how much money a startup expects to earn over a year) reportedly surpassed $3.4 billion earlier this year.
However, OpenAI is projected to lose nearly $5 billion by the end of this year and has already spent over $8.5 billion on training AI models.
Why Itās Important:
AI startups continue to attract investors despite reporting relatively small earnings. @edzitron posted on X: āOpenAI will have to raise more money than has ever been raised to survive.ā
Whatās OpenAIās main revenue stream? Is it subscriptions, renting access, or strategic partnerships?
š©ŗ PULSE CHECK
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AI RESEARCH
š§āāļøMagicās New 100 Million Context Window
Magic is an AI startup building safe Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) to accelerate humanityās progress in solving the worldās most critical problems.
Magicās new Long-Term Memory (LTM) AI model, āLTM-2-Mini,ā boasts a 100 million context window. Thatās 10 million lines of code or 750 novels.
The bigger an AI modelās context window, the more information it can process in a given prompt.
āLTM-2-Miniā requires 1,000X less compute and memory than Metaās Llama 3.1 405B.
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š°VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES
š¼WHOāS HIRING?
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