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Open AI CEO Sam Altman, left, and SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son attend a marketing event in Tokyo, Japan, on Feb. 3, 2025.

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Hard Numbers: OpenAI monster funding round, Meta’s glasses sales, Teens fall for AI too, The Beatles win at the Grammys, Anthropic’s move to reduce jailbreaking

340 billion: OpenAI is closing in on a new funding round that would value the company at $340 billion. Japanese venture firm SoftBank is leading the round, which would make the ChatGPT developer the most valuable private company in the world, leaping ahead of TikTok parent company ByteDance, worth $220 billion. SoftBank and OpenAI also announced a new joint venture in Japan called SB OpenAI Japan on Monday.
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Looking into the code.

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Looking inside the black box

One of the biggest challenges facing artificial intelligence companies is that they don’t know everything about their algorithms. This so-called black box problem is exacerbated by the fact that deep learning models do precisely that — they learn. And when they learn they change. They take in enormous troves of data, detect patterns, and spit something out: How a sentence should read, what an image should look like, how a voice should sound.
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Anthropic releases the Claude 3 series model, Suqian, Jiangsu province, China, March 5, 2024

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Hard Numbers: Amazon’s AI ambitions, what to use ChatGPT for, energy crisis, Enter Stargate

2.75 billion: Amazon invested an additional $2.75 billion in the AI startup Anthropic, which makes the popular chatbot Claude, brings their total investment to around $4 billion, while Google also has a $2 billion stake in the company. The big tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, with its $13 billion deal with OpenAI, have chosen investments and strategic partnerships instead of buying startups outright. Amazon also announced it’ll spend $150 billion on data centers over the next 15 years to support its AI ambitions.

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Executive Vice-President Vestager and Commissioner Breton on fostering a European approach to Artificial Intelligence, in the European Commission. Brussels the 21/04/2021.

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Let’s get some non-American options

In a recent interview, European Union antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said that Europeans should have AI tools that aren’t exclusively made by American companies.

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