Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of Perplexity, says that the AI-powered search engine is now performing 100 million queries each week. Extrapolated out to a month, that’s roughly 400 million queries — up from 250 million queries in July. Perplexity’s rapid rise comes as the company teases ecommerce features, including the ability for subscribers to its […]
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OpenAI is reportedly planning to release its next frontier AI model, codenamed Orion inside the company, by December of this year, The Verge reported on Thursday. Unlike previous releases, the company reportedly plans to release the model gradually to trusted partners before a broader rollout through ChatGPT. An OpenAI spokesperson tells TechCrunch the report is
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Perplexity shot back at media companies skeptical of AI’s benefits in a blog post Thursday, responding to News Corp’s lawsuit filed against the startup earlier this week. The lawsuit alleged Perplexity engaged in large-scale copyright violations against Dow Jones and the NY Post. Several other media organizations – including Forbes, The New York Times, and
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Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now write and run JavaScript code. Today, Anthropic launched a new analysis tool that helps Claude respond with what the company describes as “mathematically precise and reproducible answers.” With the tool enabled — it’s currently in preview — Claude can perform calculations and analyze data from files like spreadsheets and PDFs,
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President Joe Biden on Thursday is expected to sign a memorandum detailing how intelligence and national security agencies, including the Pentagon, should use and implement guardrails around AI, reports The New York Times. The order urges keeping humans “in the loop” of AI tools that may be used as targeting weapons, and prohibits letting AI
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Nvidia announced a series of partnerships with Indian firms on Tuesday to deploy its AI chips and technology, deepening its push into a key growth market as demand for AI infrastructure surges. The U.S. chip designer said at its AI Summit in Mumbai that Tech Mahindra will use its technology to develop Indus 2.0, a
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Miles Brundage, a longtime policy researcher at OpenAI and senior advisor to the company’s AGI readiness team, has left. In a post on X today and an essay on his personal blog, Brundage said that he believes he’ll have more impact as a policy researcher and advocate in the nonprofit sector, where he’ll have “more
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Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. The agents are coming — the AI agents, that is. This week, Anthropic released its newest AI model, an upgraded version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet, that can interact with the web and desktop apps by clicking
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Google is making SynthID Text, its technology that lets developers watermark and detect text written by generative AI models, generally available. SynthID Text can be downloaded from the AI platform Hugging Face and Google’s updated Responsible GenAI Toolkit. “We’re open-sourcing our SynthID Text watermarking tool,” the company wrote in a post on X. “Available freely to developers
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