AI Edition - It's AI Time - 78 [01-07-2024]

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 78

OpenAI Strikes A Deal With Time

Time has signed a licensing deal with OpenAI, allowing the company's AI to train on 101 years of its journalism and access real-time content for answering user queries about breaking news. In return, OpenAI will cite Time and link back to its source material.

AI development needs high-quality data. Researchers at Google, Stanford, and Oxford trust Prolific to provide it

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Improving AI's Writing Skills

Suri is a dataset of 20,000 long-form texts paired with complex instructions. It is designed to improve AI's ability to follow detailed writing constraints. The team that developed Suri has introduced Instructional ORPO (I-ORPO), an alignment method that uses synthetically corrupted instructions, for feedback.

Amazon's AGI Talent Grab

Amazon hired Adept co-founder and CEO David Luan, who will oversee Amazon's "AGI Autonomy" division, reporting directly to Rohit Prasad, head of Amazon's AGI unit. Amazon will license Adept's technology, including multimodal models and datasets, under a non-exclusive agreement to enhance its digital agent capabilities. Adept, founded in 2022 by former OpenAI and Google engineers, was valued at over $1B in early 2023 and is known for developing AI agents that can perform complex tasks without human assistance.


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