On 17 November, OpenAI's board of directors unexpectedly fired the company's CEO Sam Altman. The board cryptically announced that Altman "was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities". This led to a wave of rumours about the reason for the decision. Within hours, Greg Brockman, the president of OpenAI, was also removed from the board and three senior researchers – Jakub Pachocki, Aleksander Madry and Szymon Sidor – also quit. Brockman later resigned from the company.

In another twist on the OpenAI saga that raged over the weekend, Microsoft has swooped in and hired Sam Altman and Greg Brockman just after OpenAI confirmed Altman won't be returning, CEO Satya Nadella announced in a post on X. The pair, along with colleagues are joining Microsoft "to lead a new advanced AI research team." Nadella added that Microsoft "remain[s] committed to our partnership with OpenAI," but the move looks a giant hedge on that bet. It also means the much of OpenAI's talent may be moving to Microsoft, which may stall progress on the widely-used ChatGPT product. We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners.

In another twist on the OpenAI saga that raged over the weekend, Microsoft has swooped in and hired Sam Altman and Greg Brockman just after OpenAI confirmed Altman won't be returning, CEO Satya Nadella announced in a post on X. The pair, along with colleagues are joining Microsoft "to lead a new advanced AI research team." Nadella added that Microsoft "remain[s] committed to our partnership with OpenAI," but the move looks a giant hedge on that bet. It also means the much of OpenAI's talent may be moving to Microsoft, which may stall progress on the widely-used ChatGPT product. We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners.

Microsoft on Monday announced it has hired ousted OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman to head a new advanced AI research team after OpenAI's board decided against reinstating Altman following negotiations over the weekend. The appointment caps off a chaotic weekend for the tech world, which kicked off Friday after OpenAI's board of directors suddenly fired Altman, a high-profile figure and wunderkind of the artificial intelligence boom. It appeared there was a chance Altman could return to OpenAI but the board instead decided to appoint its second interim CEO, seemingly ending Altman's hopes of returning to the helm after his shocking ouster. Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella said Monday the tech giant -- who is a lead investor in OpenAI -- is also bringing in OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, who resigned as president of the company in protest over the firing of Altman. "We're extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team," Nadella wrote in a statement posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Japan's AI research team developed a new AI model which can detect and predict the hidden turbulent motions taking place inside the sun's atmosphere. The data was collected from the surface of the solar photosphere. It is the surface of the sun and it's considered the lowest layer of the solar atmosphere and the region in which solar activity such as sunspots, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections originate. The new AI model could correctly identify turbulent horizontal motion below the surface. This could help us to better understand solar convection, and processes that generate explosions and jets erupting from the sun.

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Even in today's fast-paced digital era, a picture is still worth a thousand words. But, did you know that images have become the most potent source of Big Data Analytics for AI research teams? And, incredibly the novel image analytics research brings together the powerful capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Neural Networking. In the latest blog, popular Social Media technology and Big Data aggregation company Facebook has revealed how its AI research team has found out the "secret' ingredient that goes into every recipe by simply looking at its picture. Facebook AI research team created a system that smartly analyzes the photograph of food items and creates a recipe "from scratch." The combination of AI and Computer Vision techniques achieves this unique feat of laying down the entire list of ingredients that went into the cooking bowl to create the dish. Facebook calls this "Inverse Cooking" system. Computer Vision (also called CV) is used to refer to the branch of AI technique used to extract inference from image data based on what a computer sees or captures through its camera lens, smart devices, and vision-related engineering. It also includes images extracted from 3D models, drones, AR VR, object detection and online search engines. Today, CV is recognized as one of the most compelling AI techniques within the Big Data industry. By 2030, the CV industry and associated hardware market are slated to become a $28 billion economy. Michal Drozdzal, a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research, explains the data engine that drives the inverse cooking system for Facebook's CV technique. Michal states, "Inverse Cooking system splits the image-to-recipe problem into two parts: One neural network identifies the ingredients that it sees in the dish, while the other devises a recipe from the list." Michal added, "The enhanced computer vision system is more effective than retrieval image-to-recipe techniques, which work to recognize the tasty treat in question and then search a database of preexisting recipes.

Facebook researchers have developed Fashion, a system that uses artificial intelligence to recommend how to make an outfit more stylish. AI has been slow to penetrate subjective fields like fashion, so Fashion relied on humans to evaluate its suggestions. The technology could be used by digital assistants to provide personal styling or shopping advice. Can a computer learn to tell what is fashionable and what is not? Artificial intelligence researchers at Facebook believe it can.

Yann LeCun has been the face of Facebook's AI research efforts since 2013, but you'll have to get used to some new people in the mix. An interview with LeCun at Quartz has revealed that he's stepping down from his position as part of a shakeup meant to place AI on an even higher pedestal at the company. LeCun will still be around as the chief AI scientist, but he's being replaced with IBM and BenevolentTech alumni Jérôme Pesenti, who'll take over both the research spot and the Applied Learning Group that rolls AI into products like the News Feed. The newcomer will "oversee all the AI at Facebook," LeCun said, and not just the experimental work. The company didn't have much choice.

Google announced today that it's expanding its AI research efforts, setting up a new research team in France that will work with the country's AI research community on issues ranging from health to the environment. Google says the team's work will be published and any code it produces will be open source. Along with creating a dedicated AI team at Google France, the company is also expanding its workforce by 50 percent and opening four hubs that will provide free digital literacy training to the residents of France. While Facebook already has an AI lab in the country, it announced today that it would put €10 million towards accelerating AI innovation in France. That money will be used for scholarships, funding servers and open datasets that public institutions can use and adding 30 additional fellowship positions to Facebook AI Research Paris' PhD program.