🚨 AI giants stolen training data revealed

Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

YouTube's vast library just became an unexpected training ground for AI giants — with the content’s 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? Let’s investigate…

In today’s AI rundown:

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🔎AI trained on YouTube without consent

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 creators’ consent.

The details:

Why it matters: While the use of these transcripts isn’t going to create the best vibes with creators — we’ve 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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📚 OpenAI founding member pivots to AI education

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 — coming just months after his departure from OpenAI.

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Why it matters: From hyper-personalized learning to advanced, on-demand AI tutors, education is about to be massively reshaped in the coming years—and the sector just gained one of the most well-respected scientists in the field to help lead the way.

AI TRAINING

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The Rundown: Leonardo AI’s new ‘Motion‘ feature allows users to turn static images into captivating short animations for social media, web design, digital artists, and more.

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AI RESEARCH

🚀Mistral releases new open-source models

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.

The details:

Why it matters: Mistral continues to shake up the AI landscape with innovative approaches — and with these specialized models, they join other rivals in demonstrating that bigger AI systems aren’t 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 platform’s 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 company’s 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 Cohere’s Command R+, set to launch in September 2024.

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