🗞 OpenAI Explores Custom Chip Development with Broadcom 💻

🔎 The Latest on the AI Frontier:

• OpenAI Explores Custom Chip Development with Broadcom 💻

• Amazon's AI Assistant Rufus Now Available Nationwide 🛒

• AI Startup World Labs Hits Unicorn Status in Record Time 📈

• Google Unveils AI-Powered Video Creation Tool 'Vids' 🎥

• Microsoft Releases Designer App with AI-Generated Art 🎨

• Microsoft's Copilot AI Faces Internal Leadership Challenges 🤖

• AMD's New Ryzen Chip Outperforms Apple in Benchmarks 🚀

• China's AI Development Hindered by Strict Censorship Rules 🐌

• Mark Cuban Challenges Elon Musk Using Musk's Own AI 🗣️

• Jared Leto Joins Celebrity Trend of AI Startup Investments 💰

💻 OpenAI in talks with Broadcom to develop custom AI chip. Link

• OpenAI is exploring developing its own AI chips to overcome shortages of expensive GPUs needed for training AI models.

• The company is hiring former Google employees who worked on Google's tensor processing unit.

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has plans to raise billions to set up chip manufacturing facilities, with Intel, TSMC and Samsung as potential partners.

🛒 Amazon expands AI shopping assistant Rufus to all US customers. Link

• Rufus, an AI-powered conversational tool in the Amazon Shopping app, can answer questions about products and orders.

• The tool has received "tens of millions of questions" from customers since its limited launch in February.

• Amazon joins other major retailers like Walmart and Target in integrating generative AI to enhance customer shopping experiences.

📈 AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li's startup World Labs reaches $1B valuation in just 4 months. Link

• World Labs aims to develop AI with human-like visual processing and advanced reasoning capabilities.

• The company has raised about $100 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Radical Ventures.

• Li's work focuses on "spatial intelligence" to create 3D environments from images and text, with potential applications in robotics, AR/VR, and computer vision.

🎥 Google launches AI video creator 'Vids' to streamline production. Link

• Vids can produce 10-minute videos from text prompts, integrating with Google Workspace tools.

• Features include AI-generated storyboards, customizable templates, and royalty-free stock content.

• The tool could significantly reduce video production costs and time for businesses, potentially disrupting traditional content creation processes.

🎨 Microsoft's AI-powered Designer app exits preview, now available to all. Link

• The free app allows users to create custom designs and AI-generated avatars using Microsoft's Copilot technology.

• Designer integrates with Microsoft 365 apps and includes features like image editing and AI-powered design generation.

• While impressive for non-designers, the app raises concerns about AI's impact on professional designers and artists.

👑 Microsoft's Copilot AI lacks unified leadership, faces internal competition. Link

• Multiple teams are developing different versions of Copilot for various Microsoft products and services.

• No single leader oversees the entire Copilot initiative, leading to potential competition over its future direction.

• Recent executive reshuffling aims to focus on more business opportunities for Copilot, with separate leadership for consumer and enterprise AI efforts.

🚀 AMD's new Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 outperforms Apple M3 Max in single-core tests. Link

• Leaked Cinebench R23 results show the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 scoring 2,010 in single-core performance, beating the Apple M3 Max's 1,968.

• The chip also outperforms previous-gen AMD and Intel processors in single-core tests, though falls behind the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D in multi-core.

• AMD's next-gen mobile and desktop chips are expected to launch in July, with the Ryzen AI 300 series dropping support for Windows 10.

🐌 China's AI progress slowed by government censorship requirements. Link

• Chinese tech companies must submit extensive content reviews to regulators, including up to 70,000 test questions to ensure "safe" AI responses.

• Chatbots are required to refuse politically sensitive queries and end conversations if users ask too many controversial questions.

• These censorship demands are diverting resources from improving AI capabilities, potentially giving U.S. companies an advantage in the global AI race.

🗣️ Mark Cuban confronts Elon Musk using Musk's own AI chatbot Grok. Link

• Cuban shared a 2020 video of himself discussing white privilege, which Musk criticized as "racist."

• In response, Cuban asked Grok to analyze the video transcript. Grok interpreted it as a call for honest dialogue about race and privilege.

• Cuban then provided examples of white privilege based on experiences shared by Black NBA players, which Grok agreed demonstrated racial disparities.

💰 Actor Jared Leto invests in $500M AI startup, joining other celebrities embracing the technology. Link

• Leto invested in Captions, a generative AI startup valued at $500M, alongside venture capitalists and Adobe.

• This marks Leto's second AI investment in 2024, following his backing of video generation company Pika in June.

• While some celebrities denounce AI, others like Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert Downey Jr. are investing in AI companies with environmental focuses.

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