Amir Efrati

2 days ago | theinformation.com | Amir Efrati

For the past three years, Microsoft has introduced a slew of new software tools, such as Copilot, by drawing on artificial intelligence developed by OpenAI. Under the terms of the software giant’s financial backing for OpenAI, Microsoft has access to the tech through 2030. The only risk was that OpenAI could move to cut off access if its board decided the AI had developed to the point where it could outsmart humans.

2 weeks ago | theinformation.com | Amir Efrati

Source: The InformationAmazon Web Services is revamping a key cloud service for developing and running artificial intelligence in a bid to catch up to Google and Microsoft, The Information reported. AWS is preparing to make it easier for businesses to use a wider array of AI models and other software for developing AI apps such as agents, which can perform tasks like maintaining a spreadsheet to keep track of unpaid bills.

2 weeks ago | theinformation.com | Amir Efrati

Annualized revenue at “AI native” companies selling artificial intelligence models or apps has passed $15 billion just two and a half years since OpenAI launched ChatGPT, according to The Information’s Generative AI Database. While that’s not the same as $15 billion in actual revenue, it’s still an unprecedented haul for such a short time period and means that, collectively, the companies generated about $1.25 billion of revenue in May alone.

2 weeks ago | theinformation.com | Amir Efrati

Before we get to today’s column, here’s something to noodle on. On Friday, word spread widely across the industry that an unnamed public company was going to invest a cool $10 billion in an unnamed private AI firm. On Saturday afternoon, Scale AI’s name popped up as the alleged recipient. By nighttime, Bloomberg reported Meta Platforms was the public company in question. The question was: Why?

1 month ago | theinformation.com | Amir Efrati

By hiring Instacart CEO Fidji Simo to manage OpenAI’s business, CEO Sam Altman can focus on his primary ambition: attaining artificial superintelligence. The term refers to technology that would help humans solve fundamental scientific challenges around energy and physics to become multiplanetary, colonizing other planets and eventually other star systems, according to a person who has heard him speak about it.