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Luma AI secures $900 million to speed up multimodal AGI push

BENGALURU: Luma AI has raised $900 million in Series C funding led by HUMAIN, the Public Investment Fund-backed AI company developing one of the world’s largest compute clusters, as the Palo Alto startup accelerates its effort to build multimodal artificial general intelligence capable of understanding and simulating the physical world.The round, also backed by AMD…

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Not just AGI, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman strongly disagrees with Sam Altman on this ‘dangerous’ AI service offered by ChatGPT and Elon Musk’s Grok

Microsoft’s AI chief Mustafa Suleyman is essentially drawing a line against AI-generated erotica, which the company’s longtime partner OpenAI recently offered in ChatGPT, calling the service ‘dangerous’. The CEO of Microsoft AI said that the tech giant will not build AI services offering “simulated erotica,” explicitly distancing Microsoft from OpenAI’s recent announcement that it would…

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AI agents are not amazing, they are slop: says OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy as he strongly disagrees with CEO Sam Altman on AGI timeline

OpenAI’s founding team member Andrej Karpathy OpenAI cofounder and AI researcher Andrej Karpathy has strongly pushed back against the “agentic AI” hype, characterizing the current generation of autonomous AI systems as “slop.” Karpathy has directly challenged the notion that autonomous AI agents are on the cusp of delivering as promised, positioning himself in contrast to…

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