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The geopolitics of on-device AI

Since its inception, generative AI such as ChatGPT has run primarily in the cloud: large data centers run by large companies. In that home, AI is reliant on electricity-hungry computers, robust internet connections, and centralized data. But now AI is beginning to move directly onto devices themselves, encouraged by advances in AI models, user-friendly tools, and ideological factors. This transformation has broad implications for the geopolitics of AI.

Whether for corporate or personal use, on-device AI is fundamentally different from cloud-based AI. When running on your own device, AI no longer requires racks of electricity-hungry computers, a reliable internet connection, or particularly custom hardware to operate. From a user’s point of view, one can more safely and privately give on-device AI access to all data on the device — including messages, photos, and real-time location — without risking privacy leakages. The on-device AI could control apps on the user’s behalf, and their apps could also efficiently use the on-device AI. All for free, with no usage limits.

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What is artificial general intelligence?

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is the holy grail of AI research and development. What exactly does AGI mean, and how will we know when we’ve achieved it? On Ian Explains, Ian Bremmer breaks down one of the most exciting (and terrifying) discussions happening in artificial intelligence right now: the race to build AGI, machines that don’t just mimic human thinking but match and then far surpass it. The idea of AGI is still a little hard to define. Some say it’s when a computer can accomplish any cognitive task a human can, others say it’s about transfer learning. Researchers have been predicting AGI’s arrival for decades, but lately, as new AI tools like ChatGPT and DeepSeek become more and more powerful, there is a consensus that achieving true general intelligence in computers isn’t a matter of if, but when. And when it does arrive, they say it will transform almost everything about the way humans live their lives. But is society ready for the huge changes experts warn are only a few years away? What happens when the line between man and machine disappears altogether?

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What we learned from a week of AI-generated cartoons

Last week, OpenAI released its GPT-4o image-generation model, which is billed as more responsive to prompts, more capable of accurately rendering text, and better at producing higher-fidelity images than previous AI image generators. Within hours, ChatGPT users flooded social media with cartoons they made using the model in the style of the Japanese film house Studio Ghibli.

The ordeal became an internet spectacle, but as the memes flowed, they also raised important technological, copyright, and even political questions.

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Elon Musk wants to buy OpenAI

Elon Musk is leading a contingent of investors seeking to buy OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT.

The group, which also includes the firms Valor Equity Partners, Baron Capital, Atreides Management, Vy Capital, and 8VC, reportedly offered $97.4 billion to buy OpenAI. The plan: To buy the biggest name in AI and merge it with Musk’s own AI firm, xAI, which makes the chatbot Grok.

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Hard Numbers: Amazon’s spending blitz, Cal State gives everyone ChatGPT, a $50 AI model, France and UAE shake hands

100 billion: Amazon disclosed plans on Thursday to spend $100 billion this year to capitalize on a “once-in-a-lifetime type of business opportunity” in artificial intelligence. That would represent a 20% increase in the company’s capital expenditures from 2024 when it spent $83 billion. “The vast majority of that capex spend is on AI for AWS,” CEO Andy Jassy told investors.
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Gov, a version of its popular chatbot specifically built for US government agencies. It’s similar to the enterprise version of the software but claims to have enhanced security features that can handle “non-public, sensitive information.”
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Can OpenAI reach 1 billion users?

OpenAI has big plans: The company behind ChatGPT wants to grow to 1 billion users in the next year, quadrupling its current count of 250 million.
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OpenAI scores a copyright win in court

A federal judge in Manhattan last Thursday threw out a lawsuit filed by the news outlets Raw Story and AlterNet against OpenAI, alleging that the artificial intelligence startup behind ChatGPT used its articles improperly to train large language models.

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