Nvidia on top, Microsoft's 'iPhone moment,' and Elon Musk's factory: AI news roundup
Nvidia is new to the $3 trillion market-cap club, but this week it passed both Apple and Microsoft to become the most valuable public company in the world.
Meanwhile, OpenAI rival Anthropic announced its Claude 3.5 Sonnet model which it says beat GPT-4o in tasks including graduate-level reasoning and coding.
Read about this and more in the AI news roundup.
AI could make all expertise free within 15 years, billionaire VC says
Billionaire entrepreneur and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla believes artificial intelligence will make pretty much all expertise free within the next two decades.
Anthropic just fired the latest AI salvo in its race with ChatGPT
AI startup Anthropic on Thursday debuted its updated AI model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which it said bests OpenAI’s GPT-4 in important tasks and is twice as fast as its previous model, Claude 3 Opus.
Apple is looking for an OpenAI alternative in China — where there is no ChatGPT
Apple earlier this month unveiled its generative artificial intelligence plans, which are rolling out later this year — but it’s facing a problem in its second-largest iPhone market.
Dell and Super Micro Computer will build Elon Musk’s ‘AI factory’ — and their stocks are jumping
Dell Technologies and Super Micro Computer both saw their stocks jump Thursday morning, a day after announcing a partnership with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI.
Nvidia stock keeps rising after it passed Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable company
Nvidia is new to the $3 trillion market cap club, and it’s already passed both Microsoft and Apple to become the world’s most valuable public company.
OpenAI’s former chief scientist is launching a new AI startup focused on safe ‘superintelligence’
After almost a decade as chief scientist of artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever left in May. One month later, he’s announced his own AI company — Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Nvidia insiders have sold more than $700 million worth of stock this year
Nvidia has had a good year so far — and so have people inside the company.
Nvidia just passed Microsoft and is now the most valuable company in the world
Nvidia recently joined Apple and Microsoft in the $3 trillion market cap club — and now it’s passed both companies to become the most valuable public company by market cap in the world.
Best Buy employees are learning to sell you AI laptops
Microsoft’s “year of the AI PC” is coming to stores, and one of its exclusive retail partners is preparing tens of thousands employees to sell it to you.
Nvidia-backed self-driving truck startup says its AI-powered cars will hit the roads next year
More self-driving trucks are coming to Texas next year, as Canadian startup Waabi is getting ready to put its artificial intelligence-powered fleet on the road.
AI is Microsoft’s ‘iPhone Moment,’ analysts say
Microsoft is undoubtedly a frontrunner in the generative artificial intelligence race — and it could be the tech giant’s “iPhone Moment,” analysts said.
McDonald’s is scrapping its AI drive-thru experiment
McDonald’s is scrapping the AI drive-thru systems it was testing at more than 100 locations after a series of public blunders.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he’s a ‘very nice boss’ who is ‘universally loved’
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang is recruiting for his $3.2 trillion company, and says he’s a “very nice boss” who is “universally loved.”