Maximilian Schreiner
Max is the managing editor of THE DECODER, bringing his background in philosophy to explore questions of consciousness and whether machines truly think or just pretend to.
Read full article about: UK government gains access to OpenAI and DeepMind's AI models
Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic will give the UK government access to their AI models for research and security purposes, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced at London Tech Week on Monday. The UK aims to become a global hub for AI safety regulation.
Plans include a global AI security summit and a £100m Foundation Model Taskforce. OpenAI and Anthropic recently established their European headquarters in the UK.
"AI is surely one of the greatest opportunities before us," Sunak said. But the technology needs to be developed and deployed safely, he said, "I know people are concerned."
Read full article about: AI firm Synthesia hits $1B valuation with Nvidia support
Synthesia, an AI platform for synthetic media, has raised $90 million, bringing its valuation to $1 billion. The round was led by Accel and included Nvidia and other investors such as Kleiner Perkins, GV, FirstMark Capital and MMC.
Synthesia is a London-based company that applies artificial intelligence to video production. The technology allows users to create digital avatars that can deliver presentations or training videos in multiple languages.
Synthesia just raised $90 million in Series C funding led by @Accel and with that… officially joined the unicorn club 🦄 🦄 🦄
Back in 2017, no one really understood our vision..
When @vriparbelli and @Stjerrild first used the term "generative video," people just didn't get… pic.twitter.com/y1bQ8OyCBW
— Synthesia 🎥 (@synthesiaIO) June 13, 2023
Read full article about: The ChatGPT ecosystem is growing fast
The ChatGPT ecosystem has grown to nearly 400 plugins, with more than 100 added over the weekend. Plugins significantly extend the capabilities of ChatGPT, turning the closed chatbot into a web-enabled assistant. Many of these plugins may soon be available directly in Windows 11: OpenAI and Microsoft are supporting a shared AI plugin ecosystem.
ChatGPT Plugins are growing like crazy.
There are now 400 ChatGPT plugins available, with 100 added in the last 24h alone.
We tracked all plugins released since launch. pic.twitter.com/Z0coCuoiKh
— Plugins Pulse (@pluginspulse) June 11, 2023
Read full article about: Amazon tests AI summarizer for customer reviews
Amazon is testing AI-generated summaries of product reviews, users report. The feature is in A/B testing and the company has yet to make an official announcement.
The AI summaries appear above the reviews, after the star rating, and appear to include links to related reviews.
Amazon is summarizing reviews using AI. Here is their summary for AirPods. pic.twitter.com/S2pd5YZ8Hx
— Juozas Kaziukėnas (@juokaz) June 9, 2023
