Welcome to the newest edition of FindBiometrics’ AI update. Here’s the latest big news on the shifting landscape of AI and identity technology:
Ilya Sutskever has launched Safe Superintelligence (SSI) Inc., a startup with “one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence,” he wrote on social media. Sutskever recently departed from OpenAI, which he co-founded, seemingly over concerns about the company’s race to develop superintelligent AI without adequate attention to safety risks.
Sakana AI is finalizing a $100 million funding round led by New Enterprise Associates, Lux Capital, and Khosla Ventures. The Tokyo-based LLM developer is positioning itself as a Japan-based rival to OpenAI and others. The funding round would value it at about $1 billion.
Anthropic has launched Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the latest version of its flagship AI model. The startup says that according to its own evaluations, Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms rivals like OpenAI’s ChatGPT in areas including coding and text-based reasoning, with Anthropic co-founder and President Daniela Amodei calling it “the best and most intelligent model in the industry.”
Paul M. Nakasone has been appointed to OpenAI’s Safety and Security Committee. A retired U.S. Army general, Nakasone previously led USCYBERCOM and the National Security Agency. On its board, he will help OpenAI to “better understand how AI can be used to strengthen cybersecurity by quickly detecting and responding to cybersecurity threats,” the company said.
Cerebras has quietly filed for an IPO. The California-based chipmaker is a rival to Nvidia. It is also preparing preferred shares that will be priced at a steep discount to its latest private funding round, which will presumably be offered to private investors ahead of the public offering.
HeyGen has raised $60 million in a funding round led by Benchmark and featuring Conviction, Thrive Capital, and Bond Capital. The startup’s platform lets end users create realistic deepfake avatars that can speak in their own voices. The funding round values HeyGen at $500 million.
AI technology will “inflame” the threat of propaganda, and big tech companies’ commitments to label AI-generated content won’t be enough to stop other countries from using it, according to Jen Easterly, the head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Easterly made her comments at The Washington Post’s Futurist Summit this week.
LatticeFlow AI has launched a new audio-focused deepfake detection tool. According to co-founder and CEO Petar Tsankov, the LatticeFlow AI Audio system “can automatically find and identify AI audio data and model errors,” enabling clients to quickly develop deepfake detection applications.
A “coin-stealing hacking gang” is using deepfake technology to bypass OKX’s authentication systems, according to the crypto exchange’s founder, Star Xu. The comments came after an account reportedly lost about $11 million to one or more of the scammers.
The chatbot’s take: We asked for ChatGPT’s view on Cerebras’s IPO maneuvering. (This is not investment advice.)
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June 21, 2024 – by Alex Perala
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