Also, Anthropic releases Claude Enterprise.
Safe Superintelligence cofounders (from left to right) Daniel Gross, Ilya Sutskever and Daniel Levy. / Safe Superintelligence
Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI company recently co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, raised $1bn in funding from investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, Reuters reported Wednesday.
The company is currently valued at $5bn less than three months after it was founded.
Sutskever announced in an X post that he was leaving OpenAI in May to pursue “a project that is very personally meaningful.” As its name suggests, SSI was founded with the guiding mission of developing highly advanced AI that doesn’t behave contrary to human interests and goals.
The company currently has 10 employees and will use the new injection of capital to acquire top talent and computational resources, according to Reuters.
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Starting today, auto giant Volkswagen is launching a ChatGPT-enabled voice assistant feature in certain vehicles across the US. The new feature builds upon VW’s preexisting Ida voice assistant, with the brand announcing: “Previously, passengers could ask, ‘Hey, Ida, can you please set the temperature at 70 degrees? However, the latest integration allows drivers and passengers to express themselves more vividly when seeking assistance. By simply saying, ‘Hi Ida, I’m chilly,’ the technology detects that the driver is feeling cold and will automatically activate the heating system.”
The new feature will be automatically uploaded into compatible vehicles with a Plus Speech subscription, which costs $9 a year. Most of the brand’s 2025 models will come equipped with the new ChatGPT integration as soon as they hit the market.
AI startup Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a subscription-based version of its Claude chatbot for businesses.
By uploading proprietary information to Claude Enterpise, organizations will be able to leverage the chatbot as a kind of internal AI assistant across projects and functions. The company specified that it would not use organizations’ internal information to train the model.
With the launch, Anthropic will compete with rivals more readily at the enterprise level. OpenAI launched a business-focused version of ChatGPT last August, and AI-powered search engine Perplexity launched its Enterprise Pro product earlier this year.
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American semiconductor giant Nvidia was subpoenaed by the US Department of Justice on Tuesday, according to Bloomberg.
Though details surrounding the subpoenas are scant, the agency is reportedly investigating whether Nvidia may be exerting pressure on clients to avoid buying its competitors‘ chips, in potential violation of national competition law. The news led to a drop in the company’s share price – and a record-setting single-day loss in market cap of $279bn.
Nvidia has since denied that it has been subpoenaed by the agency, according to reports.
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YouTube is releasing new tools designed to alert artists and creators when AI-generated recreations of their voices or likenesses are being shared on the platform, according to a company blog post by the company‘s vice-president of creator products Amjad Hanif.
The video-sharing platform is also working on new features for creators who want to license their IP to third-party companies in order to train AI models.
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