Turo scraps plans for an IPO
Turo on Thursday withdrew its plans for an IPO, ending a three-year wait to bring the online car-sharing network to the public marketplace, according to a regulatory filing. Turo, which…
UK drops ‘safety’ from its AI body, now called AI Security Institute, inks MOU with Anthropic
The U.K. government wants to make a hard pivot into boosting its economy and industry with AI, and as part of that, it’s pivoting an institution that it founded a…
Meta CTO says staff should quit if they don’t like Meta’s new policies
Meta’s CTO said staff unhappy with the tech giant’s latest policies should work somewhere else, an internal chat reveals. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Google Gemini now brings receipts to your AI chats
Google’s Gemini AI chatbot can now tailor answers based on the contents of previous conversations, the company announced in a blog post on Thursday. Gemini can summarize a previous conversation…
Arm is launching its own chip this year with Meta as a customer
Public semiconductor company Arm will start making its own chips this year after landing a high-profile enterprise customer. Arm, which is majorly owned by SoftBank, will start making its own…
OpenAI removes certain content warnings from ChatGPT
OpenAI says it has removed the “warning” messages in its AI-powered chatbot platform, ChatGPT, that indicated when content might violate its terms of service. Laurentia Romaniuk, a member of OpenAI’s…
Anthropic AI Launches the Anthropic Economic Index: A Data-Driven Look at AI’s Economic Role
Artificial Intelligence is increasingly integrated into various sectors, yet there is limited empirical evidence on its real-world application across industries. Traditional research methods—such as predictive modeling and user surveys—struggle to…
Meta AI Introduces CoCoMix: A Pretraining Framework Integrating Token Prediction with Continuous Concepts
The dominant approach to pretraining large language models (LLMs) relies on next-token prediction, which has proven effective in capturing linguistic patterns. However, this method comes with notable limitations. Language tokens…
Elon Musk’s full offer letter to buy OpenAI reveals five key details
A group led by Elon Musk’s x.AI wants to buy OpenAI. Read five key takeaways from its offer letter. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Can 1B LLM Surpass 405B LLM? Optimizing Computation for Small LLMs to Outperform Larger Models
Test-Time Scaling (TTS) is a crucial technique for enhancing the performance of LLMs by leveraging additional computational resources during inference. Despite its potential, there has been little systematic analysis of…