Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta’s data analysis suggests that engineers who joined the company in-person performed better on average than those who joined remotely  —  Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook parent Meta, has pointed to internal data analysis that suggests engineers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: The Be My Eyes app for the visually impaired integrates GPT-4, which can inspect and describe images, through a Virtual Volunteer feature in closed beta  —  OpenAI has introduced the world to its latest powerful AI model, GPT-4, and refreshingly the first thing they partnered … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yusuf Mehdi / Bing Blogs: Microsoft says the new Bing is “running on GPT-4, which we’ve customized for search” and was using an early version of the model over the past five weeks  —  Congratulations to our partners at Open AI for their release of GPT-4 today.  —  We are happy to confirm that the new Bing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: GPT-4 has learned to be more precise and more accurate than its predecessor, gained the ability to respond to images as well as text, but still hallucinates  —  OpenAI has upgraded the technology that powers its online chatbot in notable ways.  It’s more accurate, but it still makes things up. Lees verder op Tech Meme

OpenAI: OpenAI debuts GPT-4, claiming the model “surpasses ChatGPT in its advanced reasoning capabilities”, available in ChatGPT Plus and as an API that has a waitlist  —  Following the research path from GPT, GPT-2, and GPT-3, our deep learning approach leverages more data and more computation … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: A look at the escalating funding frenzy of AI startups like Mobius, Dust, and Perplexity, attracting VC firms such as Sequoia, a16z, Index Ventures, and NEA  —  In just weeks, a gold rush into artificial intelligence start-ups has become a full-blown mania. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple delays some employee bonuses as the company moves to once-a-year payouts, slows down hiring more, keeps more positions open, and reins in travel  —  Apple Inc. is delaying bonuses for some corporate divisions and expanding a cost-cutting effort, joining Silicon Valley peers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google announces Open Health Stack, open-source tools centered on the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standards, for developers making health apps  —  Google announced a new open-source program called Open Health Stack for developers to build health-related apps. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Anthropic, co-founded by former OpenAI employees, debuts Claude, a ChatGPT rival the startup says is less likely to hallucinate; companies can request access  —  Anthropic, an artificial-intelligence startup, is making its rival chatbot to OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT available to businesses that want to add it to their products. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Q&A with Spotify Co-President and CTO Gustav Söderström on the app’s redesign and improved discovery, layoffs, monetization, rivals, podcasting, HiFi, and more  —  Gustav Söderström has worked at Spotify for a long time; his first big project was leading the launch of its mobile app back in 2009. Lees verder op Tech Meme