xAI gets colossal

“With great power comes great irresponsibility.”

This week, Tristan and Tasia get into some of the details about OpenAI's and Anthropic’s enterprise AI efforts, the drama regarding Oprah's upcoming AI special (that no one's actually seen yet), and the possible futility and/or self-defeating nature of the Council of Europe's AI safety treaty. Then we marvel once again, this time at xAI's Memphis Supercluster, its energy requirements, and how it helps — and possibly hurts — NVIDIA. Join us as we fire up some diesel generators in our pursuit of general artificial intelligence. What's the worst that could happen?

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FOLLOW-UP

• Exclusive: OpenAI co-founder Sutskever's new safety-focused AI startup SSI raises $1 billion

• OpenAI hits 1 million paid corporate users.

• See also: Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise to compete with AI chatbot rivals

• Google’s AI-powered Ask Photos feature begins US rollout

• YouTube is developing AI detection tools for music and faces, plus creator controls for AI training

• Marques Brownlee should be absolutely ashamed of himself. What a disgraceful thing to be associated with.

• See also: Apple, Anthropic, and other companies used YouTube videos to train AI

• See also: Oprah Winfrey is hosting a prime-time TV special on AI

AI NEWS

• The US, UK, EU and other major nations have signed a landmark global AI treaty

• Council of Europe opens first ever global treaty on AI for signature

• CERN for AI may be the EU’s ‘last chance’ to gain on foreign competition

• See also: Most of America’s AI engineers are in Silicon Valley and Seattle

• Elon Musk claims he is training “the world’s most powerful AI by every metric”

• xAI Colossus supercomputer with 100K H100 GPUs comes online — Musk lays out plans to double GPU count to 200K with 50K H100 and 50K H200

• DOJ subpoenas Nvidia in deepening AI antitrust probe, report says

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• Hello, you’re here because you said AI image editing was just like Photoshop