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.
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.
Adobe's AI image generator, Firefly, has been found to produce historically inaccurate AI images, similar to the recently shut down Google Image Tool in the chat app Gemini. Firefly generated on-demand images of black soldiers in Nazi Germany and black Founding Fathers in the U.S., suggesting that the app is attempting to avoid racial stereotypes or intentionally create diversity that did not historically exist, as first reported by Semafor. Adobe emphasizes that Firefly is not "meant for generating photorealistic depictions of real or historical events." The company has implemented feedback mechanisms in its generative AI products to identify issues and resolve them by fine-tuning or adjusting the filters. Meta's image generator is also generating historically incorrect images. Critics view this as a distortion of history. An alternative perspective is that image generators are not intended to be history books and are allowed to be imaginative.
"image of the Founding Fathers and the constitutional convention in 1787", Firefly 2 prompted by THE DECODER
Reddit announced on Friday, as part of its upcoming IPO, that the company is under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for its data licensing practices. The FTC informed Reddit that it is conducting a non-public investigation into the practices by which user-generated content is sold, licensed, or shared with third parties to train AI models. Reddit emphasized that these practices are consistent with the values and rights of its users. The company expects to generate around USD 60 million in 2024 from the data licensing agreement it signed with Google in January alone. Reddit expects its growing platform data to be a key element in training leading Large Language Models (LLMs) and serve as an additional monetization channel.
