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OpenAI in talks to raise new funding at $100bn valuation

The terms, valuation and timing of the funding round have not yet been finalised and could still change

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Microsoft, OpenAI tie-up comes under antitrust scrutiny

UK to look at whether Microsoft-OpenAI deal harms competition

Sam Altman to return as OpenAI CEO

Sam Altman will return as CEO days after his ouster, following several days of drama between him and the board of OpenAI

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UPDATE: Sam Altman to join Microsoft after OpenAI exit

Altman’s sacking angered current and former employees and worried them over an upcoming $86bn share sale

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Elon Musk unveils AI-bot ‘Grok’, announces plan to integrate xAI with his social media platform

xAI released its first AI model, a bot named Grok, which was made available to all X Premium+ subscribers before its public launch

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United Nations creates advisory body to address AI governance

Members include tech company executives, government officials from Spain to Saudi Arabia, and academics from countries such as the US, Russia and Japan

Abu Dhabi’s G42, OpenAI partner Middle East AI push

GITEX GLOBAL 2023: G42, OpenAI partner to advance AI in Middle East

The partnership will focus on delivering OpenAI’s generative AI models across sectors spanning financial services to energy and healthcare

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ChatGPT adds voice, image feature: Everything you need to know

Voice feature will be available on both iOS and Android, and users can opt in through their settings

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OpenAI: Fine tuning feature now live on GPT-3.5 Turbo

The update gives developers the ability to customise models that perform better for their use cases

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Google will expand generative AI tool to select websites

Google said the new feature would generate summaries only for content that is free to read

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Apple tests ‘Apple GPT,’ develops generative AI tools to catch OpenAI

Apple is laying the foundation for AI services with the Ajax framework, as well as a ChatGPT-like tool for use, internally

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Elon Musk unveils new company xAI, seeks to build ChatGPT alternative

Musk and Jared Birchall, who operates Musk’s family office, incorporated a business called X.AI in March

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AI founders vie for Big Wealth in unicorn frenzy

Investors are exuberant over AI’s potential, from infrastructure inspection to language translation and image recognition

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ChatGPT maker OpenAI is staying private so it can make ‘strange’ decisions

Chief executive officer Sam Altman emphasised his willingness to work with regulators to develop frameworks to reduce potential harm from AI, at an event in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday

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Abu Dhabi’s TII unveils its Falcon 40B AI model open source

Falcon 40B is a foundational large language model with 40 billion parameters and trained on one trillion tokens

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OpenAI raises $175m for startup investment fund

The platform has been investing in startups working in artificial intelligence for a while

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What is ChatGPT-4 and how to use it: Everything you need to know

ChatGPT-4 is said to be an even more powerful tool, sure to send even bigger ripples across the world

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ChatGPT creator OpenAI debuts new GPT-4 AI system

The new version will be available to OpenAI’s paid ChatGPT Plus subscribers

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Snap debuts ‘My AI’ chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT technology

The chatbot is available only to Snapchat Plus members, who pay $3.99 a month to subscribe

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Microsoft eyes $10bn investment in ChatGPT creator

ChatGPT has lit up the internet since launching at the end of November last year, gathering its first million users in less than a week