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Meta and xAI are in a tug-of-war over Character.ai.
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META VS X
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and Elon Musk’s xAI are both interested in partnering with Character.ai, a well-known chatbot maker in Silicon Valley.
These tech giants are keen to collaborate with leading AI start-ups to advance their technology.
Meta has been in talks with Character.ai to improve its AI models and pre-training techniques.
Although no deal has been struck yet, Meta plans to integrate AI chatbots across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, including celebrity personas like Snoop Dogg.
Meanwhile, Musk’s xAI has developed its own chatbot, Grok, available to premium subscribers on X.
They, too, are looking at partnering with Character.ai to boost their AI capabilities.
It remains to be seen whether both companies would partner with them, or if they are racing to be exclusive.
What you should know:
Meta and xAI's interest in Character.ai highlights the tech race for AI partnerships.
Meta and Character.ai discussed enhancing AI models and pre-training.
xAI also wants to use Character.ai to boost AI capabilities.
An AI tug-of-war basically
Big Tech generally prefers strategic partnerships over full acquisitions due to regulatory concerns.
For instance, Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI is under scrutiny by UK and US authorities.
Meta continues to invest heavily in AI, aiming to become a world leader.
Their open-source Llama models offer a cheaper alternative for developers, unlike the closed models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Meta and xAI fighting over Character.ai is like watching billionaires bicker over who gets the latest tech toy.
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AI FAIL
Google's new AI Overview feature has hit some snags, causing quite a stir on social media.
This has led Google to quickly disable AI Overviews for certain searches as these strange suggestions go viral.
Google has been testing AI Overviews for a year, launching the beta in May 2023 as the Search Generative Experience.
CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned they've served over a billion queries and reduced the cost of delivering AI answers by 80%.
However, this optimisation might have been premature.
An anonymous AI founder noted that Google, once known for high-quality output, is now seeing its work turned into memes.
Despite this, Google insists that most of its AI outputs are high quality, blaming uncommon queries and doctored examples for the mishaps.
The company is actively removing problematic AI Overviews and making improvements.
Here is what’s happening:
Google’s AI Overview service is facing issues with inaccurate and bizarre suggestions.
The company has reduced AI delivery costs by 80% but might have optimised too soon.
Competitors and market pressure are pushing Google to refine its AI outputs swiftly.
Memes and missteps
AI expert Gary Marcus highlighted the challenge of achieving 100% accuracy with AI, explaining that while getting to 80% is relatively easy, the final 20% is incredibly tough.
It involves reasoning and fact-checking, tasks that might require artificial general intelligence (AGI), which current models like Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s GPT-4 aren’t designed for.
Google is under pressure as competitors like Bing, OpenAI, and new startups gain ground.
While Google has ambitious plans for AI Overviews, including advanced reasoning and video search, its reputation depends on perfecting the basics, which it is currently struggling with.
AI about to tell me to add milk before cereal next?
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