Microsoft hires Sam Altman to lead new AI research team

🦾Plus: Meta releases Emu AI video, image editing tools

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  • 🧠GPT-5 Is Officially on the OpenAI Roadmap

  • Sam Altman Fired as CEO of OpenAI

  • 🤖Microsoft Ignite 2023 AI Announcements

  • 🎶 Google and YouTube reveal 'Lyria'!

  • ⚙️ Meta releases new Emu AI video and image editing tools

  • 📝 Microsoft launches Loop to rival Notion

  • 👚 Google's AI Shopping Assistant

  • 👀 Microsoft’ and ‘Be My Eyes’ aid blind users with AI

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Nvidia unveiled the H200, a graphics processing unit designed for training and deploying the kinds of artificial intelligence models that are powering the generative AI boom.

“Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the company said. “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”

Chief technology officer Mira Murati will be the interim CEO, effective immediately.

Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to lead a “new advanced AI research team,” Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella announced on Monday.

Meta is bringing Emu to Facebook and Instagram as 2 new features: Emu Edit and Emu Video. Emu Edit will let users pick specific parts of a photo and edit them. You’ll be able to remove or edit objects in an image without any professional image editing experience.

YouTube just previewed two new AI music experiments to clone artist voices and co-create tools with musicians in partnership with Google DeepMind’s brand-new AI music generation model, ‘Lyria’.

Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source. It will work with PhD students, postdocs and researchers on research papers and open source projects.

Microsoft is officially launching its Notion-like productivity and collaboration app called Loop. Loop lets you use flexible, collaborative workspaces and pages to make it easier to cooperate on workBiden and Xi agree to discuss AI safety

> At Microsoft Ignite 2023, major AI announcements included the rebranding of Bing Chat to Copilot in Bing, expanding its availability across Windows and various Microsoft platforms.

> New custom AI chips, Azure Maia 100 AI Accelerator and Azure Cobalt 100 CPU, were introduced to enhance Azure's capabilities.

> A suite of new AI tools, including Copilot for Azure and Copilot Studio, was unveiled, offering diverse functionalities.

> Microsoft Teams received AI enhancements like advanced noise reduction and a new background decoration feature.

> A unified project management tool merging Microsoft To Do, Planner, and Project was announced for Microsoft Teams

See the full Microsoft Ignite 2023 keynote here (Watch)

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🧠AI Ethics

The EU power trio of France, Germany, and Italy just jointly agreed on a proposal for voluntary but binding AI rules for the bloc — pushing back on sanctioning of foundation models, instead lobbying for more self-regulation.

🤖AI Applied Use Cases

Microsoft just partnered with the mobile app Be My Eyes to bring AI-powered visual assistance to blind customers. Using GPT-4, digital visual assistant ‘Be My AI’ resolves issues in just four minutes without human agents — with the collaboration helping to automate support for underserved groups.

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