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In today’s edition:

• Apple Intelligence Launched On iPhone, iPad, & Mac

• Meta is Developing a New AI-Powered Search Engine

• xAI and Nvidia Team Up on World’s Largest AI Supercomputer

• Google Integrates Writing Assisstant in Gmail

• And more AI news….

Top Developments

Apple

Apple Intelligence Launched On iPhone, iPad, & Mac

The Gist: Apple Intelligence has launched, bringing AI-driven enhancements to Siri, Photos, Notifications, and more on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Key Details:

• Siri now has a conversational update, allowing seamless switching between text and voice commands with improved contextual responses.

• Systemwide writing tools enable users to rewrite, proofread, and summarize text across different apps, while notifications offer summarized views for quick insights.

• The Photos app now supports natural language search, object removal, and a Memories feature that creates custom videos from user descriptions.

• Available on the latest iPhone, iPad, and Mac models, Apple Intelligence will expand to additional regions and languages over the coming months.

Meta

Meta is Developing a New AI-Powered Search Engine

The Gist: Meta is developing its own AI-driven search engine, aiming to provide real-time search summaries via its chatbot and reduce dependence on Google and Microsoft.

Key Details:

• Meta’s AI chatbot, used across Instagram and Facebook, will now deliver AI-generated summaries of recent events, potentially phasing out reliance on external search engines for current information.

• Web crawlers and an eight-month effort indicate Meta's building of a robust, in-house database to support real-time query handling.

• The initiative aligns Meta with other tech giants, like Apple and OpenAI, who are also working on independent AI-powered search solutions.

• Meta’s long-term plans include gathering location data, positioning it to potentially compete with Google Maps in the future.

xAI/Nvidia

xAI and Nvidia Team Up on World’s Largest AI Supercomputer to Power Grok

The Gist: Elon Musk’s xAI is using Nvidia’s advanced Spectrum-X tech to boost the power of Colossus, the world’s largest AI supercomputer, for training the next-gen Grok language models.

Key Details:

• Colossus, located in Memphis, runs on 100,000 Nvidia Hopper GPUs and will soon double to 200,000 GPUs, enhancing training speed and accuracy for AI models.

• Nvidia’s Spectrum-X networking tech allows Colossus to achieve high throughput with low latency, key for managing extensive AI training data without network congestion.

• This architecture supports Grok’s development by processing large datasets directly across GPUs, bypassing traditional network bottlenecks for optimal performance.

• Nvidia’s stock saw minimal movement following the announcement, trading at $141 with a market cap of $3.45 trillion.

Quick Gist

Russia is reportedly acquiring NVIDIA H100 AI chips via an Indian pharmaceutical company, potentially bypassing U.S. sanctions with implications for military applications amid heightened geopolitical tensions (Read More).

The Red_Panda AI image model has gained attention as a powerful new competitor in the Artificial Analysis Image Arena, sparking speculation about its origin within the industry (Read More).

Pharma Intelligence UK Limited has registered in England and Wales, marking its formal establishment with company number 13787459 (Read More).

Julian Schrittwieser, known for his work on AlphaGo and MuZero at Google DeepMind, has joined Anthropic, bringing his extensive AI expertise to the research organization (Read More).

Google launched a $49 course called Prompting Essentials to help users improve their AI prompting skills and maximize their use of the Gemini AI platform (Read More).

Sierra Technologies, an AI startup by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, secured $175 million in funding, reaching a valuation of $4.5 billion to support its conversational AI platform for businesses (Read More).

Google AI Overviews is expanding to more than 100 countries to serve over a billion users monthly, broadening language accessibility and AI-based information services worldwide (Read More).

Uber unveiled Genie, an AI-powered copilot that has efficiently handled over 70,000 support queries by enhancing incident response using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) (Read More).

Gmail has integrated a writing assistant to suggest phrases and streamline email composition, aiming to enhance productivity and user experience (Read More).

The U.S. government has expanded investment restrictions on China's AI and tech sectors to enhance national security, building on prior export controls amid continuing trade tensions (Read More).

OpenAI reports 250 million active weekly users for ChatGPT, with 75% of its revenue from subscriptions, while exploring new business models beyond its current consumer offerings (Read More).

AMD is set to integrate an AI-powered ray tracing denoiser into its upcoming FSR 4 technology, with hints at adding specialized hardware to future RDNA GPUs for enhanced graphics performance (Read More).

THAT’S IT FOR TODAY!