Big Tech Unites for Open Source AI—and Against Anthropic
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What headlines kick off today's AI Daily Brief and why do they matter?
Today on the AI Daily Brief, a big tech coalition throws its weight behind open weights models. And before that in the headlines, NVIDIA also throws its weight behind Ilya Sutsgever's safe superintelligence. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. All right, friends, quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Robots and Pencils, Blitzy, and Airtable. To get an ad-free version of the show, go to patreon.com slash ai-dailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. To learn more about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors at ai-dailybrief.ai. And if you want to not just hear about the news and discussions in AI, but actually dig in and learn AI, come check out our summer adventure.
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Now, that's a name that hasn't come up on this show, at least very much, in years. Going back a bit, for those who haven't been here for as long, Ilya was one of the central figures in the OpenAI leadership dispute in late 2023. First, he was a major driver in deposing Sam, then he came back on board with Sam coming back to the CEO role. It was all very confused. When the dust had settled, he ended up leaving the company, along with CTO Meera Muradi, both spinning off to found their own AI labs. As that was happening, the safe bet was on Ilya building something interesting and novel in the space. He was the scientist with the decades-long history in AI, completing his PhD under Jeffrey Hinton and pioneering the early work at OpenAI.
Meanwhile, some investors openly scoffed during Mirati's fundraising campaign. And yet, almost two years later, Mirati's Thinking Machines Lab has hired an all-star team of AI researchers and is at the center of this new trend of helping companies think about fine-tuning their own models. All of that happening while we haven't heard anything about what safe superintelligence is up to. But then again, the actual mission statement of the company implied secrecy from the start. While Thinking Machines had a practical goal of building a future where everyone has access to the knowledge and tools to make AI work for their unique needs and goals, that's their phrase, SSI's goal was much more narrow, with ILIA proposing a straight-shot research organization to produce safe superintelligence.
Indeed, what has been clear from the beginning with SSI is that Ilya was taking the position that the whole game is superintelligence, and that anything that you have to do for short-term commercial purposes on the way to superintelligence is ultimately just a distraction. So while yes, other companies have raced off $2 trillion valuations in the private markets based on billions in enterprise sales, Ilya's bet is that that is actually potentially a distraction from what is the ultimate mission, or at least what his ultimate mission is. Now, the actual news of this new deal between NVIDIA and SSI is very brief. In a joint press release, NVIDIA said that they had made a substantial investment in safe superintelligence without giving a number.
The release also stated that SSI would receive access to NVIDIA's next-generation Vera Rubin chips. SSI said that the deal would 10x their compute resources over the next 12 months.
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