GitHub introduces GitHub Models + NVIDIA Blackwell AI chips face significant delays

Today’s Highlights:

📰 News: GitHub introduces GitHub Models + NVIDIA Blackwell AI chips face significant delays

💰 Funding: Thrive Capital raises $5Bn for its latest AI focused fund

⚡️ Top News Stories:

1. GitHub introduces GitHub Models, enabling over 100M developers to access and experiment with AI models directly on GitHub, simplifying the process of building AI applications.

2. NVIDIA's new Blackwell AI chips are facing delays due to late-stage design flaws, pushing their release to early 2025, and affecting major customers like Microsoft, Google, and Meta, who have all placed bulk orders worth tens of billions of dollars.

3. John Schulman, co-founder of OpenAI, has left the company to join its rival, Anthropic, while President Greg Brockman has taken an extended leave of absence, marking the latest in a string of departures from senior leadership. 

4. OpenAI has developed a "highly accurate" tool to detect content generated by ChatGPT but has no current plans to release it, due to fears of misuse by bad actors.

5. Google signed a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Character.AI, allowing them to use their tech while senior leadership including co-founders and the CEO from Charachter.AI will return to Google and join the DeepMind research team.  

6. Meta is negotiating multi-million dollar deals with celebrities like Judi Dench, Awkwafina, and Keegan-Michael Key for their voices which will be used for MetaAI, Meta's digital assistant that spans multiple platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

7. Elon Musk has revived his lawsuit against OpenAI, with the new suit, alleging that OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman breached their founding contract by entering a multibillion-dollar partnership with Microsoft.

8. NVIDIA allegedly scraped videos from YouTube, Netflix, and other sources without permission to train its AI models for products, according to a recent investigative report.

9. An autonomous robot dentist by Perceptive performed the first human dental procedure, completing it eight times faster than a human.

10. The U.K. government has canceled £1.3Bn worth of computing infrastructure projects, impacting its AI ambitions including £500M for the AI Research Resource and £800M for an exascale computer at the University of Edinburgh.

11. Google Cloud is providing Y Combinator startups w/ a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs and Google TPUs to build AI models.

💰 Top Funding News:

1. Thrive Capital raised $5Bn for its largest-ever fund, focusing on AI and later-stage investments, thanks to its early investment in OpenAI.

2. Groq, which develops custom chips for running generative AI models and high-speed inference compute, raised a $640M Series D, led by BlackRock. 

3. Contextual AI, which specializes in developing Contextual Language Models (CLMs) using RAG 2.0 technology to create production-grade AI systems for enterprises, raised an $80M Series A, led by Greycroft, w/ Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), Lightspeed, and other notable investors. 

4. Black Forest Labs, which specializes in creating open visual models for developers, raised a $31M Seed round, led by Andreessen Horowitz.

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