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🔴 OpenAI Risks Bankruptcy Within a Year Without Major Funding

• OpenAI might go bankrupt next year because it’s losing a lot of money. They think they will lose $5 billion and spend $7 billion this year just to keep their AI services like ChatGPT running.

• OpenAI only makes about $3.5 billion, but their costs are much higher. This big difference in money coming in and going out makes people wonder if OpenAI can keep going in the tough AI market.

• Some experts are also worried about how useful these AI tools really are. Only about one in three companies thinks they are getting their money’s worth from these AI services, which makes it hard for businesses to want to spend a lot on them.

👋 Two Co-Founders and Staff Exit OpenAI

• Dario Amodei, who worked on making AI safe and strong at OpenAI, has left to join another AI company called Anthropic.

• Paul Christiano, one of the people who started Anthropic and used to work at OpenAI, is now back at Anthropic after working at OpenAI for a while.

• Chris Olah, who was a scientist at OpenAI, also moved to Anthropic.

• These important people leaving, especially Amodei who was really focused on AI safety, is a big loss for OpenAI as they try to keep making AI better and safer.

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🎮 Video Game Voice Actors Strike Over AI Concerns

• The actors’ union called SAG-AFTRA is striking against video game companies. They stopped talking because they couldn’t agree on new rules to protect actors who do voice and motion work from being replaced by AI.

• The strike affects 160,000 union members who can’t start new video game jobs, and it’s causing problems for games that are already being made. This includes games from big and small companies.

• The video game companies only wanted to protect voice actors that you can recognize in games made with AI. But the union, SAG-AFTRA, said this isn’t fair because it leaves out many other performers like those who do motion capture and stunts.

🔄 Founders of Character AI Return to Google

• Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, who started Character.AI, are going back to work at Google. They made a deal that lets Google use some of Character.AI’s technology but doesn’t stop Character.AI from using it too. Shazeer will work with a team at Google called DeepMind.

• This deal means Google can use Character.AI’s technology for making smart AI that understands language, and it also helps Character.AI get more money to grow and make new AI products.

• Shazeer helped write a very important study in 2017 called “Attention is All You Need.” This study introduced a new way to help computers understand language, which is used a lot today in AI systems.