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If Musk wants AI for the world, why not open-source all the Grok models?

ZDNet

Elon Musk's xAI, the startup that owns the X (formerly Twitter) social media platform and builds AI models, unveiled its latest innovation, Grok 3, on Monday. This AI model challenges the best from OpenAI in reasoning and other tasks. The unveiling follows Musk's hostile bid for OpenAI, Inc., the non-profit that controls OpenAI, last week. Musk released a statement about the bid, saying "It's time for OpenAI to return to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was." The latest move is part of a campaign Musk has waged against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, Musk's former partner in the company's founding.


Why AI resorts to stereotypes when it is role-playing humans

New Scientist

Artificial intelligence models from OpenAI and Meta often resort to simplistic and sometimes racist stereotypes when prompted to portray people of certain demographic identities – a notable flaw at a time when some tech companies and academic researchers want to replace humans with AI chatbots for some tasks. Companies such as Meta have already tried boosting engagement on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram by deploying AI chatbots that mimic human profiles and respond to people's posts.


Meta just scheduled a generative AI conference called LlamaCon for April 29

Engadget

Meta just announced its first-ever LlamaCon, a dev conference dedicated to generative AI. It's scheduled for April 29. The company titled the event after its family of generative AI models. Meta promises to "share the latest on our open source AI developments to help developers do what they do best: build amazing apps and products." Beyond that vague description, we don't know much.


Elon Musk's startup rolls out new Grok-3 chatbot as AI competition intensifies

The Guardian

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI has introduced Grok-3, the latest iteration of its chatbot that integrates with X, formerly Twitter. Grok-3 debut comes at a critical moment in the AI arms race as Musk looks to compete with the Chinese AI firm DeepSeek, Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google. Musk's bot has seen less widespread adoption than DeepSeek's namesake chatbot, which wowed the world weeks ago and caused panic in stock markets, as well as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. Grok-3 is being rolled out immediately to Premium subscribers of X, the social media platform owned by Musk. The chatbot can generate texts and images without many of the common guardrails against sexually suggestive imagery, vulgarity or the reproduction of well-known people's likenesses. "Grok-3 across the board is in a league of its own," Musk said during a livestream alongside three xAI engineers late on Monday.


'Hopeless' to potentially handy: law firm puts AI to the test

BBC News

This was the second time Linklaters had run its LinksAI benchmark tests, with the original exercise taking place in October 2023. In the first run, OpenAI's GPT 2, 3 and 4 were tested alongside Google's Bard. The exam has now been expanded to include o1, from OpenAI, and Google's Gemini 2.0, which was also released at the end of 2024. It did not involve DeepSeek's R1 - the apparently low cost Chinese model which astonished the world last month - or any other non-US AI tool. The test involved posing the type of questions which would require advice from a "competent mid-level lawyer" with two years' experience.


Musk debuts Grok-3 AI chatbot to rival OpenAI, DeepSeek

The Japan Times

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup, xAI, showed off the updated Grok-3 model, showcasing a version of the chatbot technology that the billionaire has said is the "smartest AI on Earth." Across math, science and coding benchmarks, Grok-3 beats Alphabet's Google Gemini, DeepSeek's V3 model, Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's GPT-4o, the company said via a live stream on Monday. Grok-3 has "more than 10 times" the computing power of its predecessor and completed pretraining in early January, Musk said in a presentation alongside three of xAI's engineers. "We're continually improving the models every day, and literally within 24 hours, you'll see improvements," Musk said.


OpenAI's reasoning models just got two useful updates

ZDNet

OpenAI's reasoning models, o1 and o3-mini, are helpful tools for people who rely on ChatGPT for more complex prompts, including coding, math, and even multi-step text prompts, such as working through a problem or building an itinerary. To make the experience more helpful, OpenAI has deployed small but mighty updates. Also: 3 easy side hustles OpenAI's Operator just made possible - plus how you can get started OpenAI announced via an X post that OpenAI o1 and o3-mini now support file and image uploads in ChatGPT. Two updates you'll like-- OpenAI o1 and o3-mini now support both file & image uploads in ChatGPT We raised o3-mini-high limits by 7x for Plus users to up to 50 per day Combining the ability to upload files and the advanced reasoning of ChatGPT opens a new range of use cases. For example, when uploading a long research paper, ChatGPT can provide a more thorough and meaningful analysis than before.


Chatbot vs. national security? Why DeepSeek is raising concerns

The Japan Times

Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot DeepSeek upended the global industry and wiped billions off U.S. tech stocks when it unveiled its R1 program, which it claims was built on cheap, less sophisticated Nvidia semiconductors. But governments from Rome to Seoul are cracking down on the user-friendly Chinese app, saying they need to prevent potential leaks of sensitive information through generative AI services. Here is a look at what's going on:


Can Musk damage OpenAI even though his bid has failed?

BBC News

It was a huge sum - but less than the 157bn the firm was valued at in a funding round just four months ago, and much lower than the 300bn that some think it is worth now. Complicating all of this is OpenAI's unusual structure which involves a partnership between non-profit and for-profit arms. Mr Altman is understood to want to change that, stripping it of its non-profit board. That involves costs which Mr Musk is seemingly trying to inflate. "What Musk is trying to do here is raise the perceived value of the non-profit arm of OpenAI, so that OpenAI has to pay more to get out of the obligations it has to its own non-profit," said Dr Penn.


Perplexity has its own 'Deep Research' tool now too

Engadget

In a blog post on Friday, Perplexity introduced a new tool called Deep Research that it says can conduct "in-depth research and analysis" to deliver detailed reports in response to your questions, and it's free for limited use. It comes just a couple of weeks after OpenAI announced its own Deep Research feature for ChatGPT Pro users… which itself followed Google's December announcement of Deep Research for Gemini. Perplexity's tool is available only on the web to start, but it will hit the iOS, Android and Mac apps soon too. Deep Research lets you generate in-depth research reports on any topic. Perplexity says its Deep Research "excels at a range of expert-level tasks -- from finance and marketing to product research" and takes about 2-4 minutes to come up with an answer, during which it "performs dozens of searches, reads hundreds of sources, and reasons through the material."