New: Three senior researchers - Jakub Pachocki, Szymon Sidor and Aleksander Madry - have resigned from OpenAI following Sam Altman's ouster
Jon Victor
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- I’m happy to share that I’m taking on an exciting new beat here @theinformation. I’ll be writing about the world of enterprise AI, including the businesses and people looking to transform the way we work. I’m looking to dive deep into how companies like Oracle, Salesforce,
- New: Igor Babuschkin, whom Elon Musk hired to lead his new AI lab, was arrested last month in Palo Alto for domestic battery, public records show
- New: Google quietly scrapped a set of Gemini launch events planned for next week, delaying the model’s release to early next year. theinformation.com/articles/googl… w/ @amir
- More on Q*: it was enabled by a research breakthrough by Ilya Sutskever earlier this year. Within months, Sutskever began working on “Superalignment,” but other researchers including Jakub Pachocki and Szymon Sidor used the advance to build Q*
- New: OpenAI's $86 billion tender offer is in doubt now that Sam Altman and other key employees are gone. The round was expected to close as soon as next month theinformation.com/articles/opena… @KateClarkTweets @aaronpholmes
- NEW: OpenAI dropped work earlier this year on a major new AI model called Arrakis after it failed to perform as expected during training
- Exclusive: Elon Musk has approached artificial intelligence researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to ChatGPT, the high-profile chatbot made by the startup OpenAI
- BREAKING: Yale Econ 115 professor makes midterm exam optional after students write in expressing shock about presidential election:
- Exclusive: OpenAI is looking to beat Google in rolling out multimodal LLM features widely before Gemini's release They're also working on a new multimodal LLM called Gobi
- New: OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever made a key research advance in the months before forming a team focused on alignment. The breakthrough raised concerns among some staff that the company didn’t have proper safeguards in place to commercialize such advanced AI models
- SCOOP: The endowments of Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Dartmouth and UNC have all made investments into at least one cryptocurrency fund
- 1/ I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be rejoining @theinformation in early October as a reporter covering Alphabet, based in San Francisco. I’m excited to get started and look forward to being part of the team again.


