Unsurprisingly, a state with several of the country’s top higher education institutions, including one of the highest-ranked technology colleges in the U.S., would be the first to establish a central AI hub. This center is currently offering incentives for industry collaboration to stimulate innovation. MassTech has launched the Massachusetts AI Models Innovation Challenge, offering up…
R&D Market Pulse: NVIDIA hits $37.5B in revenue while UK regulators tap brakes on AI startup investment oversight
In a move signaling a more relaxed regulatory approach to the booming AI sector, UK regulators announced they would not investigate Google’s $2 billion investment in AI startup Anthropic. The move mirrors a similar decision regarding Amazon’s earlier $4 billion stake. This green light comes as Amazon doubles, bringing its total investment in Anthropic to…
This week in AI research: OpenAI’s valuation hits $150B as it unveils o1 model family
After nearly a year of rumors surrounding OpenAI’s “Q*” (later “Strawberry“) project and its potential for advanced reasoning, the company has finally unveiled its new “o1” AI models that mirror humans’ ability to think before speaking. These models allocate more processing power to reasoning before generating output, significantly improving accuracy on complex tasks across science,…
Coming soon to a computer near you — genAI that is actually good at math?
While the mathematical capabilities of large language models such as ChatGPT are steadily improving, math is clearly not their forté. Not only is it extremely computationally efficient to ask such a model a math question, it isn’t all that hard to find word problems that trip up even the latest LLMs — like ‘how many…