Tokyo-based Turing, which is developing an AI model for self-driving vehicles, raised a ~$99M Series A, sources say at a ~$388M valuation, nearly 4x from 2024
Min-Jeong Lee / Bloomberg :
Scale AI rivals like Snorkel AI, Labelbox, and Turing report a surge in interest from clients worried about Scale's independence after Meta's $14.3B investment
Bloomberg :
A look at the Coller Dolittle challenge, modeled on the Turing test with a $10M equity investment prize to decipher an animal's language and elicit a reply
Anjana Ahuja / Financial Times :
Sesame, headed by Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe, exits stealth with an undisclosed amount of funding, unveiling an AI speech model and plans for AI glasses
Here's an embedded 13-minute audio clip of my first attempt! — www.theverge.com/news/621022/ ... X: @sesame : At Sesame, we believe in a future where computers are lifelike. Today we are unveiling a...
Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for his “foundational contributions to the theory of computation”, including his work on randomness
friend and mentor to so many (including me) https://www.acm.org/... Tarun Chitra / @tarunchitra : Some of my favorite Wigderson papers are: 1. Hardness vs. Randomness 2. Algebrization: A new barrier i...
OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”
and says computer scientists need ethics training Brian Fung / CNN : AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk Alka Jain / Livemint : Industry leaders warn ‘AI poses risk...