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Online journalist Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER. He believes that artificial intelligence will fundamentally change the relationship between humans and computers.
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SoftBank is investing $960 million to expand its computing power by 2025 with the goal of developing world-leading generative AI models, reports Nikkei Asia. The Japanese telecommunications company is buying Nvidia GPUs and plans to complete a large language model (LLM) with 390 billion parameters this year. SoftBank plans to first train a Japanese-language AI model with top global performance, followed by a state-of-the-art model with over a trillion parameters next year. This investment makes SoftBank the leader in processing power in Japan, with access available to other companies. In addition, SoftBank is building one of Japan's largest AI data centers in Hokkaido to provide new services and ensure data sovereignty as required by the government. OpenAI recently released a Japanese language optimized version of GPT-4.

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Google is consolidating its generative AI teams under the leadership of DeepMind to accelerate the development of more advanced models, building on previous consolidation efforts such as the merger of DeepMind and Brain last year. All teams working on AI models are now under one roof, including the Responsible AI team, which will play a larger role in developing new models, Alphabet CEO Pichai wrote on Thursday. Google also wants to standardize the requirements for rolling out AI capabilities, and invest more in testing to ensure the models' responses are accurate and appropriate. The consolidation effort also extends to AI hardware development, with the Platforms and Ecosystems and Devices and Services teams being combined into a new group called Platforms and Devices.

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OpenAI has filed a motion to dismiss Elon Musk's lawsuit, Bloomberg reports. OpenAI says Musk's claim that the company abandoned its altruistic principles in favor of profits is "revisionist history." OpenAI claims that Musk wants to use OpenAI's success for his own competing AI company, XAI. In his lawsuit, Musk quotes from OpenAI's founding charter, in which the company promises to make its products open source for the benefit of the general public. OpenAI counters that it never promised not to monetize its technology. The charter also states that the open-source clause does not apply in principle, but only when open source is actually useful, which OpenAI says must be constantly discussed. The partnership with Microsoft does not violate any agreements. A hearing on the dismissal of the lawsuit is scheduled for April 24, Bloomberg reports.

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