OpenAI Deletes Evidence
Data & AI with Hari - Newsletter #41
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Amazon <> Claude Investment
Amazon is diving deeper into AI with a $4 billion investment in Anthropic, an AI startup known for its Claude models, which rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT. This partnership makes AWS Anthropic’s go-to cloud provider, using Amazon’s custom chips like Trainium and Inferentia to power its AI. The duo will also work on future chip development.
This move amps up the competition, putting Amazon toe-to-toe with Microsoft, Google, and others in the AI race. With Claude models integrated into Amazon Bedrock, expect cutting-edge AI solutions across industries like healthcare, finance, and customer service. Investors see this as a smart play for Amazon’s future.
OpenAI deletes evidence
OpenAI is in hot water after accidentally deleting key evidence in a copyright lawsuit with news organizations like The New York Times. The mishap happened on November 14, when engineers erased data on a virtual machine used by attorneys to review whether OpenAI’s AI models improperly used copyrighted material.
Although most data was recovered, the loss of folder structures and file names means weeks of work had to be redone. OpenAI denies wrongdoing, but the plaintiffs now want the company to search its own datasets. This case highlights growing tensions over how AI companies use copyrighted content for training models.
Mistral AI’s new Pixtral Large
Mistral AI has unveiled Pixtral Large, a powerful 124-billion parameter multimodal model designed for advanced image and text understanding. It excels in tasks like analyzing charts, documents, and multiple images at once, making it great for complex reasoning. Integrated into the Le Chat platform, it now powers features like multilingual chat, document processing, and even expense report automation.
Benchmarks show it outperforms rivals like GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro on reasoning and multimodal tasks. Available for research under a free license and commercially through platforms like Hugging Face, Pixtral Large is set to be a game-changer for AI applications.