The new ‘land grab’ for AI companies, from Meta to OpenAI, is military contracts
Silicon Valley generative AI companies are getting over their aversion to working with the U.S. Department of Defense, as the pressure builds to get returns on massive AI investments.
Artists Stick It to ‘AI Overlords’ and Leak OpenAI’s Sora Video Generator
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Artists Testing OpenAI’s Sora AI Tool Leaked It Online: OpenAI Can’t Catch a Break
OpenAI’s Sora and other AI video makers look amazing in their demos – why won’t they let us try them?
Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model
QwQ-32B-Preview is “openly” available under an Apache 2.0 license, meaning it can be used for commercial applications. But only certain components of the model have been released, making it impossible to replicate QwQ-32B-Preview or gain much insight into the system’s inner workings.
Orange signs deal with OpenAI to get access to pre-release AI models
Orange has struck a multi-year partnership with OpenAI in Europe that will give the French telecoms operator access to pre-release AI models, group chief artificial intelligence officer Steve Jarrett said on Wednesday.
OpenAI’s Sora Video Tool Leaked by Artists Recruited as Beta Testers in Protest of ‘Corporate AI Overlords’
A group of artists who were testing OpenAI's Sora text-to-video tool leaked access to it late on Tuesday, focing OpenAI to shutdown access
OpenAI's AI video generator Sora was leaked in 'artist protest' — here's what we know
OpenAI's yet-to-be-released flagship AI video generator Sora was leaked on HuggingFace yesterday. A group of disgruntled artists given early access decided to share it with the world in protest of being used as "PR puppets."
OpenAI’s AI-powered video maker Sora appears to have leaked
OpenAI's upcoming AI-powered video maker, Sora, appears to have leaked. These are some examples of what this AI tool can create.
Artists briefly leak access to OpenAI’s Sora video generator
A group of artists has leaked access to Sora, an OpenAI artificial intelligence model designed for video generation that is currently in private alpha. The artists made Sora’s application programming interface accessible via Hugging Face, Quartz reported today. OpenAI blocked access to the API after about three hours.
Orange partners with Meta and OpenAI for African languages AI models
LAGOS — French telecoms company Orange plans to partner with Meta and OpenAI to develop new artificial intelligence models trained on African languages.
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What NotebookLM’s success says about the future of AI tools
Following NotebookLM’s viral rise, Google doubled down with Learn About, a new AI-powered educational tool. Resembling an interactive encyclopedia, Learn About offers concise summaries, timelines, FAQs, and interactive explorations across topics like history, biology, and sports.
Amazon develops video AI model, The Information reports
Amazon has developed new generative artificial intelligence that can process images and video in addition to text, The Information reported on Wednesday.
Report: xAI developing new consumer chatbot and AI model
According to the Journal, xAI will raise more funding next year to support its growth efforts. The company has received at least $11 billion since it was launched by Elon Musk last year.