OpenAI Moves To Trademark Its o1 'Reasoning' Models
OpenAI has filed a trademark application for its latest AI model, o1, as the firm moves to shield its IP.
On Tuesday, OpenAI submitted paperwork to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to register the trademark “OpenAI o1.” Interestingly, the documents reveal that OpenAI filed for a foreign trademark application in Jamaica in May, months before o1 was announced.
The USPTO hasn’t granted OpenAI the trademark yet. According to the office’s online database, the application is currently awaiting assignment to an examining attorney.
OpenAI has said that it intends for o1, its first “reasoning” model, to expand into a series of models trained to perform complex tasks. Unlike most models, reasoning models effectively fact-check themselves by spending more time considering a question or query — helping them avoid some common AI pitfalls.
OpenAI, which has filed for around 30 trademark registrations to date, including for “ChatGPT,” “Sora,” “GPT-4o,” and “DALL-E,” famously failed to trademark “GPT” in February after the USPTO ruled that the term was too generic. GPT, which stands for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer,” was in use in other contexts and by other companies when OpenAI submitted its request, the office noted.
OpenAI hasn’t aggressively asserted its trademarks yet — save for one. For several months, the startup has been fighting technologist and entrepreneur Guy Ravine for the right to use “Open AI,” which Ravine claims he pitched as a part of an “open source” AI vision around 2015 — OpenAI’s founding year.
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Thoughts on AI Agents, Automation, And The Future of Your Job
Marc Benioff is the CEO and co-founder of Salesforce. Benioff joins Big Technology Podcast for a wide ranging discussion on AI agents, automation, and the future of labor. In this episode, we discuss his vision for AI agents and how they'll transform the way companies interact with customers.
Tune in to hear why Benioff believes the future isn't about personal AI assistants, but rather company-specific agents built on robust data systems that can take effective action on our behalf. We also cover his thoughts on Microsoft's Copilot, Klarna's provocative statements about abandoning traditional software, whether he'll sell Time Magazine, and what happened with Elon's purchase of Twitter.
Hit play for an illuminating conversation about the future of work, enterprise software, and how AI might create a new era of business productivity.
Former Android Leaders Are Building An ‘Operating System For AI Agents’
Former Android VP Hugo Barra says AI needs ‘an Android-like moment.’
A new startup created by former Android leaders aims to build an operating system for AI agents. Among them is Hugo Barra, Google’s former VP of Android product management, who says the new company — named “/dev/agents” — will revisit the leaders’ “Android roots.”
AI companies are pushing AI agents as the next big leap in AI tools, promising digital assistants that can carry out tasks and make decisions autonomously and with little human input. Companies like Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI each have plans to launch some version of this concept as a product in the next few months.
“We can see the promise of AI agents, but as a developer, it’s just too hard to build anything good,” /dev/agents cofounder and CEO and Google’s former Android VP of engineering David Singleton told Bloomberg. He said the industry needs “an Android-like moment for AI.”
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WTF Is Artificial Intelligence Really? Yann LeCun x Nikhil Kamath
A lot of us have heard conjectures around A.I., edge cases of the positive and negative side of A.I., and a lot of us are trying to predict what’s next. Most of my understanding of A.I. comes only from viewing what is apparent today.. reinforcement learning spaces like chat gpt becoming a go-to..
In this episode of People by WTF, we uncover the basics of this mystery of artificial intelligence with one of the founding fathers of A.I., Yann LeCun. We spoke about popular AI myths and broke down complex concepts that can perhaps help the next generation of builders build in this space.
Elon Musk Is Straining Nvidia's Supply Of AI Chips For Colossus Training Cluster
The tech mogul's new AI training system claims the title of world's most powerful computing cluster with 100,000 Nvidia processors.
In an email to colleagues, a sales lead at the chipmaker said the billionaire’s demand for its chips was straining its supply chain, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing the email it viewed. “We’ve worked hard to meet the needs of all customers and have greatly expanded the available supply today,” an Nvidia spokesperson said in a statement shared with Quartz.
In September, Musk announced that his AI startup, xAI, had brought its Colossus training cluster online after only 122 days. Colossus, which he called “the most powerful AI training system in the world,” is powered by 100,000 Nvidia H100 training chips.
Musk said the cluster “will double in size” “in a few months” to 200,000 chips, including 50,000 of Nvidia’s more powerful H200 units. While AI rivals including OpenAI and Meta also have hundreds of thousands of Nvidia’s chips, Colossus has the most processors of an individual AI computing cluster in the world.
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Which AI Future Do We Want? | Sendhil Mullainathan At UBS Center Forum
Sendhil Mullainathan of mit, a renowned thought leader in behavioral economics and AI, challenged the audience to rethink their assumptions about artificial intelligence. He remarked, “AI is not just a tool for automation but a bicycle for the mind that augments human capabilities.”
His lecture highlighted the transformative potential of AI, urging participants to “look beyond the hype and focus on practical applications that could foster innovation and growth.” Mullainathan’s insights encouraged deep reflections on the ethical implications of AI, emphasizing the importance of ensuring that technological advancements promote social justice and equality of opportunity.
He posed critical questions about the future, challenging participants to consider how society can harness AI to drive innovation while addressing its societal impacts. Underscoring that AI’s role goes beyond automation, he illustrated its ability to enhance decision-making processes across diverse sectors.
Rather than focusing solely on defensive measures, Mullainathan called for proactive efforts, stressing the importance of using the current window of opportunity to build a desirable future. He concluded, “We need ambitious builds for meaningful problems and not just safety of whatever is being built right now.”
China Tries To Exert Control Over Apple Intelligence Launch There
A top government official has warned that an Apple Intelligence launch in China would be a “difficult and long process” unless the iPhone maker partners with a local AI company. Working with a Chinese company would instead be “simple and straightforward.”
Apple had reportedly been exploring using its own generative AI models in China, but a top regulator has strongly implied that this wouldn’t be in the Cupertino company’s best interests …
Any company wanting to launch a generative AI product in China needs approval from a regulator. The Financial Times reports that the regulator in question has just given a pretty clear indication on what the government expects.
Apple is facing an uphill battle to release its own artificial intelligence models for iPhones and other products in China, with a top Beijing official warning that foreign companies will confront a “difficult and long process” to win approval unless they partner with local groups […]
The high-ranking official at the Cyberspace Administration of China said it would be a comparatively “simple and straightforward approval process” for foreign device makers to use already vetted LLMs (large language model, aka generative AI) from Chinese groups.
Two sources cited by the FT said that Apple has been considering using its own LLMs in China, but has also been in talks with Chinese tech companies.
OpenAI Gets $1.5 Billion Investment From SoftBank In A Tender Offer
CNBC's Kate Rooney joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the latest news from OpenAI.
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