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🚨 Week’s Update 🚨

This week, we have exciting news from Anthropic, Cohere, OpenAI, Google, & more.

One of the worst news coming from OpenAI last week was the departure of their superalignment lead, Jan Leike. Leike then published a thread stating the reasons for his departure, mainly that OpenAI was no longer a safety-first company.

Well, on Tuesday, he announced he was joining Anthropic to do the exact thing but, hopefully, with real commitment from leadership.

Superalignment efforts hope to find a way to control future models that will be smarter than humans, something we need to figure out before we actually build them to prevent rogue models.

In NBA terms, this is the research scientist equivalent of Lebron James joining the Celtics.

Similarly, OpenAI announced the creation of a new Safety Board and, in the same press release, announced they had started training their new frontier model (GPT-5 or whatever it’s called).

It’s great news that the new frontier is finally under training. And based on Mark Chen, the frontier models lead in OpenAI’s tweet, we should expect the model to be released around November this year.

In parallel, a few days ago Helen Toner, the ex-board member who precipitated Sam Altman’s firing back in November 2023, finally broke silence.

Continuing on AI research labs, Cohere announced Aya 21, a new multilingual LLM that will help bridge the gap between the common-used languages like English or Spanish and other lesser-known ones, a problem that today prevents a huge part of society from leveraging GenAI.

The Canadian firm seems to be very involved in open-source, which is laudable. That said, it’s reportedly valued at 227 times projected earnings, meaning they should get their shit together before it’s too late.

Moving on to the hyperscalers, Microsoft announced some interesting new features for Copilot, a product that, as discussed last week, is far from delivering on its great promise.

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