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Elon Musk releases Grok 3, calling it “smartest AI on Earth”
Read more: Elon Musk releases Grok 3, calling it “smartest AI on Earth”Elon Musk released Grok 3, the AI app for his company xAI. Musk, no stranger to superlatives, boasted that Grok 3 is the “smartest AI on Earth.” Grok 3 reportedly used (1) synthetic datasets, (2) self-correction mechanisms, and (3) reinforcement learning.
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OpenAI Board rejects Elon Musk’s offer to buy OpenAI
Read more: OpenAI Board rejects Elon Musk’s offer to buy OpenAIOpenAI’s Board issued a statement rejecting Elon Musk’s $97 billion offer to buy OpenAI, even though Elon Musk has his own AI company called xAI. Musk has also sued OpenAI and Microsoft alleging various claims, including antitrust violations. This is the second lawsuit Musk has brought against OpenAI, a company that he formerly provided funding…
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Elon Musk: “A lot of very smart, very motivated [AI] engineers in China.”
Read more: Elon Musk: “A lot of very smart, very motivated [AI] engineers in China.”Everyone is recognizing the competition–and threat–China poses to the U.S. in the AI arms race. Here’s Elon Musk’s assessment, in discussing the DeepSeek moment. “There are a lot of very smart, very motivated engineers in China. So you should expect that China will come up with many great things. They have come up with many great things.…
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Elon Musk makes $97.4B offer to buy OpenAI
Read more: Elon Musk makes $97.4B offer to buy OpenAIElon Musk and a group of investors have offered to buy, unsolicited, OpenAI for $97.4 billion, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal. That price seems low, given that OpenAI was recently valued at $300 billion. UPDATE: But the $97.4 billion offer apparently may complicate OpenAI’s attempt to convert from nonprofit to for-profit company.…
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Court grants extension of time, until Feb. 4, 2025, for Elon Musk, Tesla, Warner Bros. Discovery to reply to Alcon Entertainment’s complaint
Read more: Court grants extension of time, until Feb. 4, 2025, for Elon Musk, Tesla, Warner Bros. Discovery to reply to Alcon Entertainment’s complaintJudge Wu granted Elon Musk, Tesla, and Warner Brothers Discovery until Feb. 4, 2024 to respond to the complaint filed by Alcon Entertainment for the defendants’ alleged use of still image from the plaintiffs’ movie Blade Runner 2049 after being denied a license for it.
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Elon Musk adds Microsoft to suit against Sam Altman, OpenAI, and antitrust claims
Read more: Elon Musk adds Microsoft to suit against Sam Altman, OpenAI, and antitrust claimsElon Musk, who once was a big investor in OpenAI in its early formation, has filed a first amended complaint against the company, its founder Sam Altman, and Gregory Bockman, which now has added Microsoft as a defendant and antitrust claims for alleged efforts by OpenAI to discourage funders from backing “actively trying to eliminate…
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Alcon Entertainment, maker of Blade Runner 2049 film, sues Tesla, Elon Musk, Warner Brothers for copyright infringement.
Read more: Alcon Entertainment, maker of Blade Runner 2049 film, sues Tesla, Elon Musk, Warner Brothers for copyright infringement.The copyright lawsuits keep coming. Alcon Entertainment, which owns the copyright to the movie Blade Runner 2049, has sued Elon Musk, Tesla, and Warner Brothers for allegedly infringing a scene from the movie. From the allegations in the Complaint: Here’s where Musk used the generated image and referred to the movie Blade Runner (2049).
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Status of all 28 copyright lawsuits plus 1 new state law suit v. AI (Aug. 7, 2024): 2d case involving YouTube videos but no copyright claim
Read more: Status of all 28 copyright lawsuits plus 1 new state law suit v. AI (Aug. 7, 2024): 2d case involving YouTube videos but no copyright claimHere’s the latest status report on all 28 copyright lawsuits against AI companies. Major developments: Other developments include: New developments since last week’s report are indicated with an asterisk*. Case name Jurisdiction Judge Latest status Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence Inc. D. Del. Bibas *Final Pretrial Conference proceedings held before…
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Elon Musk drops his lawsuit againt OpenAI
Read more: Elon Musk drops his lawsuit againt OpenAIElon Musk dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI in California state court. In March 2024, Musk’s Complaint alleged that Sam Altman and OpenAI have breached the Founding Agreement to keep the AI model open source and for the public benefit. The case was dismissed without prejudice, according to CNBC. The dismissal comes on the eve of…
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OpenAI: Elon Musk sued b/c he “wants success for himself” after abandoning OpenAI
Read more: OpenAI: Elon Musk sued b/c he “wants success for himself” after abandoning OpenAIOpenAI filed a response to Elon Musk’s lawsuit in California state court, seeking the designation of “complex” pursuant to California Rule of Court 3.400. Yet, the response seems far more a refutation of Musk’s claims. OpenAI says basically Musk is having remorse for abandoning OpenAI and now having to watch the company succeed: “Though an…