OpenAI Bankrolls Axios, Ex-Google François Chollet's New AGI Lab, Synthesia's $2.1B Valuation, and Chinese AI Company MiniMax Releases New Models
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OpenAI is bankrolling Axios’ expansion into four new markets (TechCrunch)
AI video platform Synthesia doubles valuation to $2.1 billion in bumper funding (CNBC)
AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI (TechCrunch)
Google Workspace AI is now free to paying business customers (The Verge)
Chinese AI company MiniMax releases new models it claims are competitive with the industry’s best (TechCrunch)
TSMC Q4 profit set for big leap on strong demand for AI chips (Reuters)
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Microsoft: Lessons From Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products
In recent years, AI red teaming has emerged as a practice for probing the safety and security of generative AI systems. Due to the nascency of the field, there are many open questions about how red teaming operations should be conducted. Based on our experience red teaming over 100 generative AI products at Microsoft, we present our internal threat model ontology and eight main lessons we have learned (arXiv)
