Elon Musk Announces xAI: Here's Everything We Know So Far
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Elon Musk is launching xAI, a new AI company to explore the big questions of the universe. NLW looks at how he's thinking about it differently than some other players in the space. Before that on the Brief: Google has announced a set of updates for Bard that make it vastly more usable -- as well as multimodal! Also on the Brief, Adobe testifies before the Senate that artists should be protected, Kamala Harris meets with civil rights leaders and consumer protection advocates on AI, Shopify releases new AI sidekick for merchants, and Nvidia's investment into an AI drug discovery company sends that company's stock soaring more than 80%. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
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