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YouTube's vast library just became an unexpected training ground for AI giants β with the contentβs creators left completely in the dark. |
With the gold rush for data continuing to grow, has the AI revolution made everything fair game, or is a digital rights reckoning approaching? Letβs investigateβ¦ |
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In todayβs AI rundown: |
Report: AI trained on YouTube without consent OpenAI founding member pivots to AI education Bring your images to life with Motion Mistral releases new open-source models 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs More AI & tech news |
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OPENAI |
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The Rundown: A new investigation by Proof News just revealed that tech giants including Apple, Anthropic, Nvidia, and Salesforce used content from over 170,000 YouTube videos to train their AI models without creatorsβ consent. |
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The dataset, called βYouTube Subtitlesβ, contains transcripts from over 48,000 channels, including popular creators, news outlets, learning channels and more. Nonprofit EleutherAI compiled the data as part of a larger collection called βThe Pileβ, intended to provide training materials for developers and academics. Creators were unaware their content had been used for AI training purposes, with YouTubeβs ToS also prohibiting the use without permission. Apple reportedly used the dataset to train OpenELM, a model related to new AI features for iPhones and MacBooks. |
Why it matters: While the use of these transcripts isnβt going to create the best vibes with creators β weβve yet to see many legal ramifications for firms in these cases. With this dataset also being public through EleutherAI, its hard to see anything other than bad PR coming from this report, despite the ethical/moral implications it raises. |
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ANDREJ KARPATHY |
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The Rundown: OpenAI founding member and former Tesla Director of AI Andrej Karpathy just announced the launch of Eureka Labs, a new AI-integrated education platform β coming just months after his departure from OpenAI. |
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Karpathyβs post calls Eureka Labs an βAI-nativeβ school, leveraging advanced AI to enhance the learning experience. Its first offering, LLM101n, is an undergraduate-level course teaching students to train their own AI models. The platform combines human expertise with AI teaching assistants to guide students, with plans to offer both digital and physical cohorts. Karpathy announced his departure from OpenAI in February to pursue personal projects, and has since been posting educational AI videos on YouTube over the last year. |
Why it matters: From hyper-personalized learning to advanced, on-demand AI tutors, education is about to be massively reshaped in the coming yearsβand the sector just gained one of the most well-respected scientists in the field to help lead the way. |
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AI TRAINING |
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The Rundown: Leonardo AIβs new βMotionβ feature allows users to turn static images into captivating short animations for social media, web design, digital artists, and more. |
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Sign up on Leonardo AIβs website (free account includes 150 daily credits). From the main dashboard, click on "Motion" in the top menu. Select an image to animate and adjust the Motion Strength slider. Click "Generate" and check out your animated creation! |
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AI RESEARCH |
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Image source: Mistral |
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The Rundown: Mistral AI just launched Codestral Mamba and Mathstral, two new small, specialized language models that achieve state-of-the-art performance for open-source models on key benchmarks. |
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Codestral Mamba is a 7B model offering fast inference and advanced coding capabilities that surpass open-source rivals like CodeGemma and CodeLlama. The model can handle context lengths up to 256k tokens (doubling GPT4o), making it ideal for large, complex coding tasks and local development. Mathstral, also a 7B parameter model, achieves SOTA performance on math reasoning benchmarks like MATH (56.6%) and MMLU (63.47%). Both were released under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing for free use, modification, and distribution β and available via Mistralβs API and Hugging Face. |
Why it matters: Mistral continues to shake up the AI landscape with innovative approaches β and with these specialized models, they join other rivals in demonstrating that bigger AI systems arenβt always better. In the future, every sector will likely have a hyper-specific, highly-capable open-source model of its own. |
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The UK's Competition and Markets Authoritylaunched a formal probe into Microsoft's hiring of former Inflection AI staff, mirroring a similar investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission. |
Visual AI startup Haiper released Haiper 1.5, a new video generation model that doubles the platformβs output length to 8 seconds and introduces new HD upscaling, realism, and image generation features. |
Anthropic announced the release of an Android app for Claude, now available to mobile users in the Google Play store. |
OpenAIposted new examples of its Sora video generation model on the companyβs Instagram page, saying the tool is slowly being expanded to more creatives for testing. |
Cohere is partnering with Japanese tech giant Fujitsu to develop 'Takane', an advanced Japanese language AI model for enterprise use based on Cohereβs Command R+, set to launch in September 2024. |
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