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Commercial robotaxi company Waymo held a launch event in Japan last week, as the company prepares to enter early manual testing on its first international roads. After Waymo shared plans to start testing vehicles in Japan in December, the Google-owned firm detailed the launch event in a press release on Monday. The event featured officials from project partners GO, a taxi platform, and Nihon Kotsu, the largest taxi company in Tokyo, along with featuring one of the company’s camera-, lidar-, and radar-outfitted Jaguar I-Pace units, expected to begin manual testing around Tokyo in the weeks to come. Ichiro Kawanabe, Board…

Image: Envato/YuriArcursPeopleimages In the high-stakes race for AI dominance, Google’s DeepMind division is tightening its grip on talent, forcing some employees to sit out of the industry for up to a year if they leave. According to multiple reports and former employees, DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, is using aggressive noncompete clauses to block staff, especially those working on key projects like the Gemini AI model, from joining rivals like OpenAI or Microsoft for months after quitting. Some senior-level researchers are subject to a full year of paid “garden leave,” during which they are prohibited from taking other roles. “That’s…

AsianFin — The global venture capital (VC) transaction volumes plunged in the first quarter of 2025, according to global research institutions Crunchbase and PitchBook-NVCA.Despite a decline in overall deal volume, artificial intelligence (AI) investments have experienced the most robust quarter in the first quarter of 2025 since mid-2022.Global VC transactions in Q1 2025 reached 7,551 deals, a 32% year-over-year decline, as per PitchBook. However, the total transaction value surged to $126.3 billion, representing a 53.46% increase compared to the same period in 2024.AI and machine learning led the charge, with 2,101 transactions worth $73.1 billion, making up 57.87% of the…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI released GPT-4.1 this morning, directly challenging competitors Anthropic, Google and xAI.By ramping up its coding and context-handling capabilities to a whopping one-million-token window and aggressively cutting API prices, GPT-4.1 is positioning itself as the go-to generative AI model. If you’re managing budgets or crafting code at scale, this pricing shake-up might just make your quarter. Performance upgrades at Costco prices The new GPT-4.1 series boasts serious upgrades, including a 54.6% win rate on the SWE-bench coding benchmark, marking a considerable…

OpenAI on Monday launched a new family of models called GPT-4.1. Yes, “4.1” — as if the company’s nomenclature wasn’t confusing enough already. There’s GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano, all of which OpenAI says “excel” at coding and instruction following. Available through OpenAI’s API but not ChatGPT, the multimodal models have a 1-million-token context window, meaning they can take in roughly 750,000 words in one go (longer than “War and Peace”). GPT-4.1 arrives as OpenAI rivals like Google and Anthropic ratchet up efforts to build sophisticated programming models. Google’s recently released Gemini 2.5 Pro, which also has a 1-million-token…

#google #openai #mlnews Updates from the world of Machine Learning and AI Great AI memes here: OUTLINE: 0:00 – Google I/O 2023: Generative AI in everything 0:20 – Anthropic announces 100k tokens context 0:35 – Intro 1:20 – Geoff Hinton leaves Google 7:00 – Google memo leaked: we have no moat 11:30 – OpenAI loses 540M 12:30 – Google AI: Product first 15:50 – Ilya Sutskever on safety vs competition 18:00 – AI works cannot be copyrighted 19:40 – OpenAI tries to trademark GPT 20:30 – StarCoder: accessible code model 21:40 – RedPyjama & OpenLlama 22:55 – Mosaic 7B model…

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This is a video of GSP and I training & discussing jiu jitsu and MMA, including Khabib and the fight between Elon and Zuck. OUTLINE: 0:00 – Lex and GSP training 1:12 – Wrestling 2:54 – Khabib and MMA 7:50 – Fighting on the ground 11:11 – Training with Elon source

Did you know that up to 40% of global crop yields are lost to pests and diseases each year? This translates to billions of tons of food lost annually, posing a serious threat to global food security. Researchers around the world, including those from the University of Oxford, UK, are using Google DeepMind’s AI tool, AlphaFold, to accelerate scientific research in making plants more resistant to diseases. One day, this work could help protect the world’s food supplies. Research is still unfolding… source

We’re starting to rollout Projects – an easy way to organize chats that share topics or context. Projects combines chats, files, and custom instructions. 🟢 Rolling out over the next few days to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro users globally. 🟡 We’ll bring it to Enterprise and Edu users in January, and to Free users soon. source