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OpenAI sparked Hugging Face bids with early investment offer ahead of Nvidia's $13 billion deal (opens the original)
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Before Nvidia agreed to pay roughly $13 billion to buy open-source platform Hugging Face this month, OpenAI tried to invest $100 million into the startup, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. Deal discussions between OpenAI began after a high-profile hack of Hugging Face in July, when AI agents from the ChatGPT creator broke out of a controlled testing environment, went rogue, and accessed the open web, said the people, who asked not to be named because the talks were confidential.
Y Combinatorâs Garry Tan says 'do nothing' about distillation as AI giants accuse China of copying their tech (opens the original)
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At a time when some Silicon Valley giants and national security experts are calling for action against Chinese companies engaged in model distillation, Garry Tan, chief executive of famed startup accelerator Y Combinator, is less concerned. "I would do nothing" about distillation, he told CNBC's Kate Rooney at Y Combinator's annual Demo Day. "We could argue that there should be an American distillation regime." Distillation is the process of using the outputs of a more capable AI model to train
Anthropic's distillation battle turns to the dark web as China concerns swell (opens the original)
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Anthropic's head of threat intelligence, Jacob Klein, says his company welcomes competition. But what's coming out of the Chinese market, he says, is something much closer to theft. Foreign adversaries, Klein says, are accessing Anthropic's Claude models â a process known as distillation â to train competing technology and sell copycat versions at a lower price. While distillation can be done legally, Klein says that's not what's happening here. "There's an entire illicit ecosystem to try to
Anthropic IPO filing will show AI backlash as a risk factor, sources say (opens the original)
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Anthropic is poised to hit the public market at a time when an increasing number of Americans are worried about artificial intelligence and are loudly opposing new data centers. That backlash is expected to be a key risk factor in Anthropic's IPO prospectus, according to people familiar with matter. The Claude creator has been holding preliminary "test-the-water" meetings with bankers and investors in San Francisco, said the people, who asked not to be named because the sessions are confidential
OpenAI CFO Friar tells investors that enterprise business now bigger than consumer by revenue (opens the original)
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At the end of a week of turmoil in OpenAI's C-suite, finance chief Sarah Friar held a meeting with investors on Friday and touted the company's growth in enterprise, which she said now accounts for more revenue than the ChatGPT-led consumer business. "We entered the year at 60-40, but enterprise has accelerated much faster than expected and those lines have now crossed," Friar said, according to a person who was in attendance but asked not to be named due to confidentiality. "The majority of our
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