Matthias Bastian
Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER, exploring how AI is fundamentally changing the relationship between humans and computers.
Read full article about: Deepmind co-founder becomes new head of consumer AI products at Microsoft
Microsoft has hired Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google's DeepMind AI lab, as CEO of a new team responsible for the company's consumer AI products, including Copilot, Bing and Edge. Suleyman will also serve as executive vice president of Microsoft AI, part of a leadership team that reports directly to CEO Satya Nadella. Suleyman co-founded Deepmind in 2010 and left the company in 2019. He was then hired by Google for product management and AI policy, before leaving the company in 2022 to co-found LLM startup Inflection AI. Suleyman took some of his Inflection team with him to Microsoft. Inflection AI continues with a new CEO and is bringing its models to the Azure cloud, including the recently released Inflection 2.5.
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Source: Inflection | Microsoft
Read full article about: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman promises 'amazing' AI model for 2024
OpenAI will release an "amazing model" this year, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The name has not yet been decided, says Altman in the latest Lex Fridman podcast. Recently, a GPT-4.5 landing page was briefly indexed by search engines before being removed. Until the new model arrives, Altman says OpenAI plans to release "many different things" and "other important things" before it can talk about GPT-5 - one of those releases could be the Sora video model, also announced for 2024. When asked by Fridman, Altman declined to comment on the Q* project, which has been hyped as an AI breakthrough. However, he does confirm that Q* is related to logic and that this is an unsolved problem. Altman also said that he thinks GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-4 "kind of suck", and that the jump from GPT-4 to GPT-5 could be as big as the jump from GPT-3 to GPT-4. Ilya is fine, and he hasn't seen AGI, Altman said.
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Source: Lex Fridman Podcast
