Author HubMaximilian 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.
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New Othello experiment supports the world model hypothesis for large language models

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ChatGPT might be draining your brain, MIT warns - what ‘cognitive debt’ means for you

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Anthropic releases Claude 4 with new safety measures targeting CBRN misuse

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Camb AI has released Mars5, an open-source voice cloning AI model that claims to offer higher realism compared to competitors like ElevenLabs. According to the company, Mars5 captures nuances in speech, including emotion, rhythm, and intonation. Camb is also planning to release Boli, a translation model that captures context and colloquialisms better than tools like Google Translate. The company is working with clients such as Major League Soccer, Tennis Australia, and movie studios. Mars5 is available in English on GitHub, while the multi-language version with support for 140 languages is accessible through Camb's paid Studio platform.

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OpenAI's annualized revenue has more than doubled to $3.4 billion over the past six months, CEO Sam Altman told the company's employees, according to a report from The Information. This puts OpenAI far ahead of competitors like Anthropic and Cohere. Most of the revenue comes from subscriptions and API access, with a small portion from Microsoft's Azure sales. The integration of ChatGPT into Apple products could give OpenAI another boost. The company also plans to launch a search engine, the video generation model Sora, and new models.

However, the numbers should be treated with caution: In a statement to The Information, an OpenAI spokesperson called them "inaccurate," but did not provide details.

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Aleph Alpha, a Heidelberg-based AI company specializing in generative AI, and Silo AI, Europe's largest private AI lab, are entering into a strategic partnership. The goal is to advance the use of open-source AI and enterprise solutions in Europe. Aleph Alpha will contribute its technology stack and Silo AI will bring its experience in developing and implementing AI solutions in companies. Both companies share the mission of equipping European companies with sovereign generative AI and are committed to developing open-source language models for European languages.

"The partnership between Aleph Alpha and Silo AI provides customers with a generative AI tech stack that is scalable and meets the highest standards of sovereignty, trustworthiness and transparency," said Aleph Alpha.

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"What I cannot create, I do not understand," Richard Feynman once said. Thanks to a four-hour video by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, anyone can now recreate GPT-2. In the video, Karpathy shows all the necessary steps from building the GPT-2 network to optimization and training to generating the first text.

The OpenAI co-founder, who was also head of AI at Tesla, left the company after a second round at OpenAI in February 2024 to devote himself to his own projects.

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AI coding can make developers slower even if they feel faster

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Musk unveils Grok 4 as xAI’s new AI model that beats OpenAI and Google on major benchmarks

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"Cat attack" on reasoning model shows how important context engineering is

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