AI Developments Dominate Tech News as Nvidia Reaffirms OpenAI Investment and Chatbots Cite Grokipedia
Developments in the artificial intelligence sector continued to make headlines this week, with Nvidia reaffirming its commitment to OpenAI and several AI chatbots drawing information from Elon Musk's Grokipedia. Meanwhile, outside of AI, the TV industry appeared to be scaling back on 8K technology, and a woman claimed her Global Entry was revoked after an encounter with an ICE agent using facial recognition.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang denied reports that he was "unhappy" with OpenAI and stated that the company still planned to make a significant investment in the ChatGPT creator, according to The Verge. Nvidia had announced in September that it would invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI. Huang told reporters in Taipei that the deal was still on track.
In related AI news, ChatGPT was not the only AI tool using Grokipedia as a source, The Verge reported. Citations to Elon Musk's AI-generated encyclopedia were appearing in answers from Google's AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini, as well as Perplexity and Microsoft. Data suggested this trend was increasing.
Arcee, a San Francisco-based AI lab, released its largest open language model to date, Trinity Large, a 400-billion parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE), VentureBeat reported. The company also released a "raw" checkpoint model, Trinity-Large-TrueBase, allowing researchers to study a 400B sparse MoE model. According to VentureBeat, Arcee made waves last year for being one of the only U.S. companies to train large language models (LLMs) from scratch and release them under open or partially open source licenses.
Outside of the AI realm, Ars Technica reported that the TV industry was seemingly conceding that 8K might not be the future. Companies had been trying to promote 8K displays since 2012, when Sharp brought the first 8K TV prototype to CES. Samsung released the first 8K TVs in the US in 2018, starting at $3,500.
In other news, Nicole Cleland, a Minnesota resident, claimed her Global Entry and TSA Precheck privileges were revoked after an incident involving immigration agents, Ars Technica reported. Cleland said in a court declaration that an agent told her he used facial recognition technology to identify her. Cleland, a director at Target Corporation, volunteers with a group that tracks potential Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) vehicles in her neighborhood, according to her declaration. The incident occurred three days prior to the revocation, Ars Technica reported.
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