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Microsoft has launched a new version of its Copilot app and as well as a new look it includes a ‘voice mode’ similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Advanced Voice. I gave it a try and was impressed.

One group is doubling down on optimism over AI; the other is fighting it out of fear.

OpenAI, the company behind artificial Intelligence chatbot ChatGTP, has secured new financing to the tune of $6.6 billion from a variety of investors. The start-up is now valued at $157 billion, on par with such groups as Uber or AT&T. It will have to commit to converting to a for-profit…

NVIDIA recently unveiled powerful open-source multimodal large language models (LLMs) dubbed NVLM 1.0 with the flagship model, NVLM-D-72B featuring up to 72 billion parameters.

The departure of OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever raised concern among top officials in the firm behind the curtains. They reportedly tried to get the Chief Scientist back on the team by extending him a new and possibly lucrative deal, but their efforts were turned down.

OpenAI has officially closed its funding round with a $157 billion market capitalization after raising $6.6 billion from many big tech corporations, including Microsoft, NVIDIA, SoftBank, and more.

OpenAI did not name the investors, but reports said that the funding round was led by New York-based venture capital firm Thrive Capital, including the company's biggest backer Microsoft and new participants, chipmaker Nvidia and SoftBank, among others.

Priceline debuts AI voice assistant using OpenAI model.

The startup behind ChatGP, which is reportedly planning to become a for-profit business, is now valued on par with Uber

The AI startup is grappling with a wave of high-level exits and internal debate over its business objectives, but it has not dampened investors’ appetite.