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Move over GPT, there’s a new model on the block!
Microsoft is reportedly developing MAI-1, a massive LLM set to rival OpenAI's GPT models. The goal of this project is to create a versatile language model that can understand and generate human-like text across various applications, and ultimately power Microsoft Copilot. MAI-1 is expected to have about 500 billion parameters!
New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini (Ars Technica)
In another corner of the AI realm, Holistic AI just got a big $200M funding boost.
The startup is working to advance multi-agent AI models that learn more like humans by drawing from a broad spectrum of knowledge. Holistic AI plans to use the funding to expedite research efforts in fields like unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, and algorithms inspired by neuroscience.
DeepMind Alumni Raise $200 Million Funding Round for Holistic AI (Bloomberg)
Meanwhile, Wayve, a British startup, is revolutionizing self-driving tech with an innovative approach: embodied AI.
Unlike AI models carrying out cognitive or generative tasks, embodied AI interacts with and learns from real-world surroundings and environments…fascinating!
Wayve, an A.I. Start-Up for Autonomous Driving, Raises $1 Billion (NYT)
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