A new industry group, that includes the likes of Google, Microsoft and Intel, has been formed to help develop components that link together AI accelerator chips in data centres. The group is known as the Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Promoter Group. The group also includes AMD, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco and Broadcom. The move is seen as the latest effort to tackle the market dominance of chip-making giant Nvidia, which was absent from the group. “An industry specification becomes critical to standardise the interface for AI and machine learning, HPC (high-performance computing), and cloud applications for the next generation of AI data centres and implementations,” the companies said in a statement.
Apple, OpenAI sign billion-dollar deal
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Smartphone major Apple reportedly inked a billion-dollar strategic partnership with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI to incorporate its technology into Apple’s iOS 18 operating system for iPhones. The aim is to make Apple’s digital assistant Siri more intelligent and human-like in its responses. This is expected to be announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in the second week of June. The deal has reportedly raised concerns at Microsoft, which has invested $13 billion in OpenAI.
Openai is training new model
OpenAI said it is training a new flagship model to succeed GPT-4 — the model which powers ChatGPT. It is also setting up a new committee on AI safety and security. This comes after two high-profile exits of staffers who were leading safety efforts — chief scientist Ilya Sutskever and researcher Jan Leike — and the effective disbandment of its ‘superalignment’ group which was responsible for long-term alignment of AI and human
interests. Leike this week joined rival Anthropic to “continue the superalignment mission”. Meanwhile, OpenAI also introduced ChatGPT Edu, powered by GPY-4o, built for universities to responsibly deploy AI to students, faculty, researchers and campus operations.
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Google to set limits on AI search featureSearch giant Google said it is putting limits on its AI search experience feature AI Overviews after reports of hallucinations were shared online. The feature had reportedly told users to eat rocks and use glue to help cheese stick better on pizza. The feature was one of several big AI-related announcements it made at I/O, its annual developer conference, two weeks ago. It provided users AI-generated summaries of topics searched, along with links to go deeper, at the top of the search results.
Mistral releases GenAI model for coding
French unicorn startup Mistral, which is touted as a rival to Silicon Valley’s AI giants, released Codestral, a generative AI model for code. Mistral said the model was trained on over 80 programming languages, including Python, Java, C++ and JavaScript. It is capable of completing coding functions, writing tests and
filling in partial code, as well as answering questions about a codebase in English. The startup is backed by Microsoft and valued at $6 billion.
