STORY: From Elon Musk asking insightful questions to a startup tracking space junk, AI Weekly is here to bring you the latest.
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Elon Musk has a new question for users of social network X.
He asked them whether Tesla should invest $5 billion in his artificial intelligence startup, xAI.
Early votes were overwhelmingly in favor, but there have been no reports as to whether Tesla shareholders were particularly enthusiastic.
Facebook's parent company Meta has released its latest AI model.
The new version of Llama 3 can converse in eight languages, write higher quality computer code, and is nearly free to use.
This is still small compared to some other programs, but Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg believes it can overtake its rivals next year.
US startup Privateer is using AI to track space debris.
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It could alert satellite operators before a collision creates more debris.
Declan Lynch is the company's Chief Revenue Officer.
“What's really exciting is our Wayfinder platform, which tracks over 35,000 objects traveling at over 17,000 miles per hour. Tracking that many objects and predicting their trajectories for the next 24, 48, 72 hours requires a huge amount of data and computing power, but we're able to leverage the power of AI to do it in a fraction of the time it would take a human to do it today.”
The world's largest contract chipmaker is raising revenue targets thanks to AI.
Taiwanese giant TSMC says the technology is currently “very hot.”
This helped the company cope with the drop in demand for gadgets after the lockdown was lifted.
And Nvidia is working on developing new AI chips for China.
Reuters sources said the chip is based on the company's flagship silicon but has been modified to comply with U.S. export controls.
Another source said this week that Samsung's latest chips have been approved for use in Nvidia's systems for the first time.
