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Weekly AI Highlights Review: November 19-26
The US sees China as a contender in the AI race; DeepSeek launches R1-Lite-Preview, an open-source "reasoning" model; Amazon has invested an additional $4B in Anthropic; AI announcements in Microsoft's Ignite 2024; OpenAI launches Advanced Voice Mode for the web; and more.
Nov 26, 2024
Anthropic secured another investment from Amazon, named AWS its primary training partner
Anthropic and Amazon have recently expanded their partnership, with Amazon making another $4B investment in the startup. Correspondingly, Anthropic has named AWS its main cloud and training partner, and committed to contribute to optimizing AWS's hardware and software stack.
Nov 25, 2024
OpenAI launched Advanced Voice Mode on the web
OpenAI has expanded the availability of Advanced Voice Mode to the web experience for paid subscribers, who can talk to ChatGPT right from their browser. OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil confirmed the company is looking to enable free users to use AVM from their browser soon.
Nov 25, 2024
The UK's CMA closed its investigation on the Alphabet/Google-Anthropic partnership
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has closed its investigation into the arrangement between Alphabet/Google and Anthropic. The CMA determined that a merger situation is unlikely given Anthropic's market share size, and the lack of demonstrable material influence on Google's part.
Nov 25, 2024
Ignite 2024: Microsoft announced Copilot Actions and agents for Microsoft 365
Microsoft announced Copilot Actions and agents at Ignite 2024. The announced features build on the company's commitment to make Copilot a powerful AI-powered personal assistant, and to enhance productivity and transform business processes by applying the much-touted potential of AI agents.
Nov 25, 2024
Microsoft Launches Azure AI Foundry to streamline enterprise AI development
Microsoft introduced Azure AI Foundry at Ignite 2024, a comprehensive platform that unifies AI services, tools, and models to help enterprises streamline AI application development with enhanced scalability, privacy, and management capabilities.
Nov 25, 2024
DeepSeek has launched R1-Lite-Preview, a reasoning model to compete with OpenAI's o1
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, has released R1-Lite-Preview though its chat interface. R1-Lite-Preview is marketed as an open-source OpenAI o1 contender, as it reportedly performs comparably in math benchmarks such as AIME and MATH.
Nov 25, 2024
Paris-based startup H launches proprietary agentic AI and automation platform
H launched its automation platform Studio and Runner H, an AI agent that automates web tasks through natural language commands. Notably, Runner H outperforms recent tools like Anthropic's computer use API, while being built on models a fraction of Sonnet 3.5's size.
Nov 24, 2024
Asian News International (ANI) has sued OpenAI for copyright infringement
Indian news agency Asian News International (ANI) recently filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company of using ANI's content to train its models without permission, and of attributing fabricated news stories to the agency, to the detriment of its reputation.
Nov 24, 2024
Perplexity is going after the e-commerce market with a new AI-powered shopping assistant
Perplexity AI has launched an AI-powered shopping assistant featuring one-click checkout, visual search capabilities, and unbiased product recommendations, alongside a new merchant program to expand its retail partnerships.
Nov 23, 2024
OpenAI and Common Sense Media launched a ChatGPT guide for educators
OpenAI and Common Sense Media have launched a free online course for K-12 educators about AI and ChatGPT, though teachers remain skeptical about AI's benefits. According to a Pew Research Center study, only 6% of public school K-12 teachers believe generative AI is more beneficial than harmful.
Nov 23, 2024
Roboflow has secured $40M to make computer vision applications accessible to all
Roboflow, a computer vision development platform used by over 25,000 organizations, including several Fortune 100 companies, has secured $40 million in a Series B led by GV. Roboflow has also seen continued growth of its open source community, hitting 1M downloads of its tools in the last 30 days.
Nov 22, 2024