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• 💪 OpenAI Sora Beta Testers

• 🧪 AI Assurance and Discovery Lab

• 🎯 Nvidia Has A Target On Its Back

• 🔻 Instability AI

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TECH

OpenAI Sora Beta Testers

OpenAI's announcement of their AI video generator, Sora, has continued to stir discussions over a month later. The company provided beta access to various artists and filmmakers to explore its capabilities, recently sharing early impressions and creative outputs, including the first generated short film.

One highlighted clip by Alex Reben demonstrates Sora's advanced capabilities, like rotating objects in 3D space—a breakthrough for AI video technology typically confined to 2D. This platform not only pushes the boundaries of creativity but also democratizes artistic expression, enabling individuals without traditional artistic skills to visually articulate their ideas and stories in ways previously unimaginable.

GOVERNMENT

AI Assurance and Discovery Lab

MITRE, a public interest nonprofit corporation, recently unveiled its AI Assurance and Discovery Lab aimed at evaluating the risks associated with government use of artificial intelligence. This new facility focuses on testing AI systems in simulated environments, examining potential biases, and ensuring user information control, in response to concerns over AI trustworthiness among Americans.

The initiative aligns with legislative interests and President Joe Biden's executive order to bolster AI risk management, serving as a pivotal resource for developing and applying AI assurance tools across various sectors. At the lab's launch in McLean, Virginia, key figures including MITRE executives and Virginia congressional members emphasized the importance of balancing security with innovation to advance safe AI practices.

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BIG TECH

Nvidia Has A Target On Its Back

Nvidia has reached a $2.2 trillion market cap, with its technology being a cornerstone for major tech companies like Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google's Alphabet. Its competitive edge is not just in hardware but also in Nvidia's CUDA software platform, relied upon by over 4 million developers globally.

A coalition including Qualcomm, Google, and Intel aims to challenge Nvidia's dominance by targeting its software ecosystem, intending to free developers from dependence on Nvidia chips. This group, part of the UXL Foundation, is developing OneAPI and other tools to facilitate software compatibility across various AI chips, striving for an open ecosystem that supports a broader range of hardware options. With plans to engage more companies and create a universal programming model, UXL aims to decentralize AI computing power, currently dominated by a few chipmakers, and even plans to eventually support Nvidia hardware.

STARTUPS

Instability AI: Stability AI CEO Resigns

Emad Mostaque, the CEO who played a pivotal role in launching Stability AI and its groundbreaking product Stable Diffusion, is resigning to explore the realm of decentralized AI. Mostaque's departure is marked by his relinquishment of both his CEO position and board membership, sparking significant changes within the company.

This transition occurs amidst Mostaque's expressed desire to challenge the dominance of centralized AI models, advocating for an open and decentralized approach to AI development. His exit follows a turbulent period for Stability AI, which saw the resignation of key researchers and comes in parallel with significant moves within the AI industry, including Microsoft's acquisition of talent from rival startup Inflection AI.

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