OpenAI is expanding to Japan, with the opening of a new Tokyo office and plans for a GPT-4 model optimized specifically for the Japanese language. The move is significant for a few reasons. It underscores the opportunity the company sees to court business in the country, and highlights how OpenAI will likely need to localize […]
Databricks spent $10M on new DBRX generative AI model, but it can’t beat GPT-4
If you wanted to raise the profile of your major tech company and had $ 10 million to spend, how would you spend it? On a Super Bowl ad? An F1 sponsorship? You could spend it training a generative AI model. While not marketing in the traditional sense, generative models are attention grabbers — and […]
Anthropic claims its new models beat GPT-4
AI startup Anthropic, backed by hundreds of millions in venture capital (and perhaps soon hundreds of millions more), today announced the latest version of its GenAI tech, Claude. And the company claims that it rivals OpenAI’s GPT-4 in terms of performance. Claude 3, as Anthropic’s new GenAI is called, is a family of models — […]
Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant
Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI is gradually building an alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic as its latest announcement shows. The company is launching a new flagship large language model called Mistral Large. It is designed to rival other top-tier models when it comes to reasoning capabilities, such as GPT-4 and Claude 2. In addition to […]
Disney’s VR treadmill, OpenAI fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4, and Apple rolls out stolen device protection
Hey, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering notable happenings in tech over the past few days. On the agenda for this edition is Disney’s innovative VR treadmill, OpenAI fixing its “lazy” AI and MIT’s high-capacity, fast-charging organic battery tech. We also cover Apple’s new stolen device protection feature, AI […]