OpenAI' Board Rejected Elon Musk Group's $97.4 Billion Unsolicited Offer

The OpenAI’s Board of Directors rejected yesterday the Elon Musk investment group’s unsolicited offer of $97.4 billion to gain control of the AI company. In a statement, Bret Taylor, the chairman of the OpenAI board, said, "OpenAI is not for sale, and the board has unanimously rejected Mr. Musk’s latest attempt to disrupt his competition." Bret Taylor was referring to Mr. Musk’s own AI company, xAI. OpenAI sent a letter on Friday to Marc Toberoff, the lawyer representing Musk, saying that the offer was "not in the best interests of OpenAI’s mission,” which is to build artificial intelligence that benefits “all of humanity." Toberoff said in a statement sent to The New York Times: “This comes as no surprise, given that Altman and Board chair, Taylor, already rejected Musk’s $97 billion bid while stating they had not yet received it. But we are surprised to see the Board, which has strict fiduciary duties to carefully consider the bid in good faith on behalf of the charity, use the same kind of deflective double-talk Altman used in testifying to the Senate.” Elon Musk also filed a lawsuit in federal court last year to block OpenAI’s restructuring plans. This week, Robert Bonta, California’s attorney general, said that the state was scrutinizing OpenAI’s plan to shift to a for-profit structure. xAI raised $6 billion in December, saying it would use the money to build infrastructure and accelerate research and development. BlackRock, Fidelity, Sequoia Capital, and other investors participated in the funding.

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A Chinese Company Launches a Fully Open-Source Video Generator

Beijing-based HPC-AI Technology, Inc., the developer of the popular open-source project Colossal-AI, launched Open-Sora's video generation platform in December. The repository of this open-source alternative to OpenAI's Sora is available on GitHub. The Chinese start-up behind the initiative claims that video is generated at 50% of the cost. "Open-Sora not only democratizes access to advanced video generation techniques but also offers a streamlined and user-friendly platform that simplifies the complexities of video generation," said the company. HPC-AI Technology, Inc. featured a gallery of examples. Video generation using open-source platforms keeps getting better! You can now generate videos at 50% of the cost using Open-Sora! (Open-Sora uses ColossalAI, probably the most popular open-source AI platform on GitHub with almost 40,000 stars) Here is the Open-Sora GitHub… — Santiago (@svpino) December 23, 2024

Workday Fires 1,750 Employees and Plans to Hire AI Talent

Enterprise HR, finance, and learning platform Workday Workday joined Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and other companies this week to announce layoffs. The Silicon Valley-based company laid off 1,750 employees on Wednesday, 8.5% of its current workforce. Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach told employees in a blog post that the company needs a new approach in the current market and does plan to hire AI talent. "Affected employees in the U.S. will be offered a minimum of 12 weeks of pay, with additional weeks based on tenure. In addition, they will be offered additional vesting of restricted stock unit grants, career services, benefits support, and immigration support. Outside the U.S., affected employees will be offered packages based on local standards, which will be aligned with U.S. packages, where possible," Eschenbach explained. In the age of AI, other companies have recently announced layoffs. • Identity management company Okta laid off 180 employees on Tuesday. • Robotaxi company Cruise also slashed 50% of its workforce on Tuesday. • Amazon has also recently cut some of its roles in its sustainability department.

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OpenAI Introduced the 'ChatGPT Gov' Initiative, Offering Agencies’ Access to Its Frontier Models

OpenAI introduced its ChatGPT Gov program, a new tailored version of ChatGPT similar to its Enterprise offer, designed to provide U.S. government agencies with an additional way to access the company's frontier models. "We believe the U.S. government’s adoption of AI can boost efficiency and productivity and is crucial for maintaining and enhancing America’s global leadership in this technology," said the company in a blog post. Government agencies can deploy ChatGPT Gov in their own Microsoft Azure commercial cloud or Azure Government cloud on top of Microsoft Azure’s OpenAI. ChatGPT Gov includes the GPT-4o flagship model, Custom GPTs that employees can build and share, and an administrative console for CIOs and IT teams to manage users, groups, Custom GPTs, and single sign-on (SSO). OpenAI claimed that since 2024, over 90,000 users across 3,500 federal, state, and local government agencies are using ChatGPT daily. Among those agencies, it mentioned Since 2024, more than 90,000 users across more than 3,500 US federal, state, and local government agencies have sent over 18 million messages on ChatGPT to support their day-to-day work, including: Air Force Research Laboratory⁠. It uses ChatGPT Enterprise for administrative use cases, including improving access to internal resources, basic coding, and supporting AI education efforts. Los Alamos National Laboratory. It's leveraging ChatGPT Enterprise for bioscientific research and innovation. State of Minnesota's Enterprise Translations Office. It uses ChatGPT Team to deliver translation services to the state’s multilingual communities, significantly reducing costs and turnaround times. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania⁠. Its employees use ChatGPT Enterprise to reduce the time spent on routine tasks, such as analyzing project requirements and other elements of their work.

Stanford University Introduces an LLM that Writes Wikipedia-Like Reports

Stanford University released Co-STORM this month, a research prototype LLM that writes Wikipedia-like articles from scratch based on Internet searches. According to the institution, experienced Wikipedia editors have found it helpful in their pre-writing stage. STORM — Synthesis of Topic Outline through Retrieval and Multi-perspective Question Asking — has been tried by over 70,000 people on its live preview page. Available on GitHub, the model breaks down generating long articles with citations into two steps: a pre-writing stage when it collects references and generates an outline, and a writing stage when the system generates a full-length article with citations.   STORM simulates a conversation between a Wikipedia writer and a topic expert grounded in Internet sources to enable the language model to update its understanding of the topic and ask follow-up questions.

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