Top Stories: Big Tech Battles Over Generative AI; Uber Advances in Self-Driving Tech

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Big tech giants like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI are in a fierce race to dominate generative AI, shifting from partnerships to rivalry as they develop their own AI models. Meanwhile, companies like Uber are advancing autonomous driving by collaborating with AI firms like Wayve to bring Level 4 self-driving vehicles to the market.

TODAY’S ROADMAP

• Current Happenings in AI World

• Big Tech’s AI Arms Race: Can Amazon, Google, and Microsoft Dominate the Future?

• Sign Up on Recraft AI to Easily Remove and Redesign Backgrounds in Your Images

• 5 AI Tools to Boost Your Productivity

  and more…

NEWS

Current Happenings in AI World

• All Business: Anthropic has unveiled a new Enterprise version of Claude aimed at large businesses. It boasts a 500,000 token context window, GitHub integration, and enhanced security tools.

• Excel Successor: Paradigm, a startup, has emerged from stealth with a tool that can reportedly scan the internet for data and automatically transfer it into a spreadsheet.

• Inference Inflation: OpenAI is considering charging up to $2,000 per month for access to its upcoming reasoning-focused models, including Strawberry and Orion.

• AI Butler: Chinese fintech giant Ant Group is launching an AI assistant capable of autonomously ordering meals and hailing taxis via text or voice commands.

• Helping Hand: A recent study reveals that programmers using AI-based coding assistants are, on average, 26% more productive than their non-AI counterparts.

AI UPDATE

Big Tech’s AI Arms Race: Can Amazon, Google, and Microsoft Dominate the Future?

When a new disruption emerges, big-name players race to master it. This is happening right now as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI are actively investing in generative AI. It’s a high-stakes race where the winner takes all as the ultimate provider of all things AI. However, how realistic is this goal?

There are several key indicators of big tech companies going for an AI monopoly:

Partners turned competitors: Having invested $13 billion in OpenAI, Microsoft now considers the company its competitor. The growing competitive tension was marked by removing the OpenAI CEO without briefing the Microsoft CEO and Microsoft gave up its observer seat on the OpenAI board. Rise of big tech AI models: Big tech companies keep gravitating from partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic to developing their products. After acquiring Inflection AI, Microsoft poured $650 million into its MAI-1 model. Similarly, Amazon is now creating its own AI platform. Uber, AI Company Team to Develop Self-Driving Cars

Uber is teaming with British AI company Wayve to develop self-driving vehicles.

The ride-hailing company says it will collaborate with automakers to use the London-based start-up’s AI solutions. This will deliver Level 4 autonomous functionality on vehicles which will subsequently be used on the Uber network “in multiple markets around the world.” There is no word yet on what OEMs will be involved.

Level 4 automation is defined by the Society of Automotive Engineers as when a vehicle is in full control of driving under certain circumstances or in a specific location.

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AI MEETS PRODUCTIVITY

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