Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang refuted reports suggesting discontent with OpenAI, affirming the company's commitment to a substantial investment in the ChatGPT creator. Huang addressed reporters in Taipei, stating that Nvidia still planned to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI, despite recent speculation that the deal might be in jeopardy, according to The Verge.
In other news from the tech world, 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), now available in preview, VentureBeat reported. Alongside this, Arcee is providing a "raw" checkpoint model, Trinity-Large-TrueBase, for researchers to study the intricacies of a 400B sparse MoE model. Carl Franzen of VentureBeat noted that Arcee gained recognition last year as one of the few U.S. companies training large language models (LLMs) from scratch and releasing them under open or partially open source licenses.
Meanwhile, the open-source AI assistant OpenClaw, formerly known as Clawdbot and Moltbot, reached 180,000 GitHub stars and attracted 2 million visitors in a single week, according to its creator Peter Steinberger, VentureBeat also reported. However, security researchers discovered over 1,800 exposed instances leaking API keys, chat histories, and account credentials. Louis Columbus of VentureBeat pointed out that this grassroots agentic AI movement represents a significant unmanaged attack surface, often invisible to traditional security tools, especially when agents operate on BYOD hardware.
In the realm of consumer technology, the TV industry appeared to be reconsidering the future of 8K displays, Ars Technica reported. Companies had invested heavily in promoting 8K technology throughout the 2010s, with Sharp showcasing the first 8K TV prototype in 2012 and Samsung releasing the first 8K TVs in the US in 2018. However, widespread adoption has been slow.
Separately, Nicole Cleland, a Minnesota resident and Target Corporation director, claimed her Global Entry and TSA Precheck privileges were revoked after an incident involving immigration agents, Ars Technica reported. Cleland stated in a court declaration that an agent used facial recognition technology to identify her three days after she observed activity by immigration agents. Cleland volunteers with a group that monitors potential Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) vehicles in her neighborhood.
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