Pope Francis Calls for Treaty to Regulate AI, After Viral Fake Pic

🤑 Elon Musk’s xAI Secures $1 Billion in Funding for its Ambitious AI Project 🚀🤖🌐

🇨🇳 01.AI: The Chinese AI Unicorn Challenging Silicon Valley with its Open-Source Model 🚀

Chinese AI startup called 01.AI is raising up to $200 million in fresh capital, according to two sources. The company is led by computer scientist Lee Kai-fu, who is also the CEO of venture firm Sinovation Ventures. The company’s open-source AI model, Yi-34B, became the first Chinese LLM to top the leaderboard of Huggingface, a platform for tech firms to share LLMs.

• 🚀 Chinese AI startup 01.AI is raising up to $200 million in fresh capital, two sources familiar with the matter said.
• 🏆 The company’s Yi-34B model became the first Chinese LLM to top the leaderboard of Huggingface, a platform for tech firms to share LLMs, which then get rated for performance and popularity.
• 🌎 The company aims to provide a superior alternative not just for China but for the global market, competing with tech giants like OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft.
• 🦄 The company has reached a valuation of more than $1 billion after a funding round that included Alibaba’s cloud unit, making it a unicorn in less than eight months.
• 🔮 The company is working on a 100-billion-plus parameter model, benchmarked against OpenAI’s GPT-4, and plans to expand beyond Chinese and English.

     Read about it here: Link

🙏 Pope Francis Urges World Leaders to Sign Treaty for Ethical AI 🤖

Pope Francis calling for a treaty to regulate artificial intelligence, after he was a victim of AI-generated imagery. He praised the benefits of technology and AI, but warned against the risks of losing sight of human values and creating inequality. He encouraged the experts and developers of AI to respect values such as inclusion, transparency, security, equity, privacy and reliability. He hoped that AI can contribute to a better world and an integrally higher quality of life.

• 🙏 Pope Francis, who was once a victim of AI-generated imagery, calls for a treaty to regulate artificial intelligence.
• 🌐 He urges world leaders to adopt ethical standards for the development and use of AI, especially in areas such as human dignity, social justice and peace.
• 🤖 He praises the benefits of technology and AI, but warns against the risks of losing sight of human values and creating inequality.
• 🧑‍⚖️ He encourages the experts and developers of AI to respect values such as inclusion, transparency, security, equity, privacy and reliability.
• 🕊️ He hopes that AI can contribute to a better world and an integrally higher quality of life.

     Read more about it: Link

🎤 Bad Bunny Slams AI Copycats for Using His Voice Without Permission 🎵

Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny lashing out over viral AI copycat hits that use his voice without his permission. Bad Bunny told his 20 million WhatsApp followers to leave if they liked "this shitty song that is viral on TikTok … I don’t want you on tour either".

• 🎤 Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny lashes out over viral AI copycat hits that use his voice without his permission.
• 🎵 Chilean artist Maurico Bustos, also known as FlowGPT, launched the trend with the song NostalgIA, which was written and recorded by Bustos using artificial intelligence to modify Bad Bunny’s vocals.
• 📱 The song became a viral hit on TikTok, prompting parodies and copycat versions by other users.
• 😡 Bad Bunny told his 20 million WhatsApp followers to leave if they liked "this shitty song that is viral on TikTok … I don’t want you on tour either".
• 🤖 FlowGPT sent a response as the AI entity, saying he was a fan of Bad Bunny’s work and that he was built to be the best artist in the world.
• 🚫 Claudia Gutierrez, a consultant on AI issues, said due to a legal void, this trending type of generative AI will be difficult to clamp down on.

     Read about it here: Link

🚀 xAI: Elon Musk’s AI Startup Raises $1 Billion to Build General-Purpose AI 🤖

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI, which has filed with the U.S. securities regulator to raise up to $1 billion in an equity offering. The company aims to develop a general-purpose AI system that can learn from any data and perform any task, competing with rivals like OpenAI, Microsoft and Google. The company launched its first AI model, a chatbot with a “rebellious streak” called Grok, which will be integrated into Musk’s social media platform X and also be available as a standalone app.

• 🚀 Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has filed with the U.S. securities regulator to raise up to $1 billion in an equity offering.
• 🤖 The company has already raised $135 million from investors and is seeking a total of $1 billion in equity financing, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
• 🌐 The company aims to develop a general-purpose AI system that can learn from any data and perform any task, competing with rivals like OpenAI, Microsoft and Google.
• 🎙️ The company launched its first AI model, a chatbot with a “rebellious streak” called Grok, which will be integrated into Musk’s social media platform X and also be available as a standalone app.
• 🧠 The company is led by computer scientist Lee Kai-fu, who is also the CEO of venture firm Sinovation Ventures, and the team behind xAI comes from Google’s DeepMind, Microsoft, and other top AI research firms.

Read about it here: Link

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