AI News. AI Chess in action
Once again, we’re bringing you the biggest news in AI this week, and wow, what a week it has been. All the big boys (and it does seem to be a bit of a boys club) have made some really exciting announcements. It really is like watching a giant game of multidimensional AI chess unfold before our very eyes.
Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang, announces the biggest GPU ever.
As part of a keynote speech that cemented Nvidia at the centre of the AI revolution, Jensen announced its new Blackwell chip and platform that is expected to power the next generation of AI applications. This chip is huge in every sense of the word. The entire keynote speech in this video, and at 2 hours long, it might be a bit long unless you are a bit nerdy, like us. Jump to 26 mins to hear all about this new chip. Looks like he’s bringing his queen into action.
Microsoft hires Mustafa Suleyman, the Deep Mind co-founder, to lead their new AI division.
Mustafa Suleyman joins Microsoft
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, is wheeling and dealing again. Rather than acquire Mustafa Suleyman’s start-up Inflection AI, which recently raised $1.3 billion and was valued at $4 billion, Microsoft has hired the brain behind it, and a lot of the team appears to be following. This strategic play has people suggesting that Microsoft have leapt ahead as it reduces its dependence on Open AI. Read the full story in the Guardian. A classic Castle move that switches everything up.
Sam Altman talks about the future of AI, the imminent and hints about GPT5 (or whatever it may be called)
Sam Altman, already a rock star in AI and not to be outdone by Jensen and Satya, has given an insightful interview on the outstanding Lex Fridman podcast. It’s worth watching (all the big podcasts are on video these days). Given the new Nvidia chip and the additional hints he gave about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), we suspect it might arrive sooner than we all might expect. Is Sam the King? He might be for now, but only time will tell.
Tune in next week for more AI news.