Over the past month, we've seen a rapid cadence of notable AI-related announcements and releases from both Google and OpenAI, and it's been making the AI community's head spin. It has also poured fuel on the fire of the OpenAI-Google rivalry, an accelerating game of one-upmanship taking place unusually close to the Christmas holiday.
Early testers are playing with Google's new Veo 2 and finding it bests OpenAI's Sora when it comes to accuracy.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai sees a slowdown while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman envisions acceleration to generative artificial intelligence next year, according to the New York Times.
Microsoft-backed OpenAI on Monday said that it was opening access to ChatGPT Search to all users, having previously limited the feature to subscribers. That’s more than 300 mill
Google announces Veo 2, a generative AI video competitor to Open AI's Sora. Meanwhile, account creation for Sora is back after being halted temporarily.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicts a fiercely competitive but diverse AI market, even with Microsoft's close ties to OpenAI. He acknowledged Google's current revenue dominance from Windows and celebrated OpenAI's recent deal with Apple.
Google has asked the U.S. government to break up Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI's technology on its cloud servers, the Information reported on Tuesday.
Google reportedly wants the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to end Microsoft's exclusive cloud deal with OpenAI that requires anyone wanting access to OpenAI's models to go through Microsoft's servers.
Here are some screenshots from Google Veo 2 generated video.
This week highlights OpenAI unveiling its o3 models, Amazon’s new password sharing policies, rumors of the iPhone SE 4 being renamed to iPhone 16e, WhatsApp’s seasonal features, and Google’s announcement of a 10% job cut in managerial positions.
Sam Altman, the hype master, was at it again without any short breaks. Delivering a speech at the 2024 FinRegLab AI Symposium, Altman said, “By the end of 2025, I expect we will have systems that can do truly astonishing cognitive tasks, like where you’ll use it and be like, that thing is smarter than me at a lot of hard problems.”