Welcome to Eye on AI! In this edition…Disney and Universal join forces in lawsuit against AI image creator Midjourney…France’s Mistral gets a business boost thanks to fears over U.S. AI dominance…Google names DeepMind’s Kavukcuoglu to lead AI-powered product development.
Mark Zuckerberg is rumored to be personally recruiting—reportedly at his homes in Lake Tahoe and Palo Alto—for a new 50-person “Superintelligence” AI team at Meta meant to gain ground on rivals like Google and OpenAI. The plan includes hiring a new head of AI research to work alongside Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, who is being brought in as part of a plan to invest up to $15 billion for a 49% stake in the training data company.
