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Welcome back! This week, we have news from start-ups founded by legends, SoftBank’s latest crazy idea, and an obvious truth about OpenAI.

To start, Ilya Sutskever, the OpenAI co-founder who recently left, has started a new start-up focused on solving superintelligence.

Ilya has always been very worried about the impacts of AI in our lives, surprising no one when he left OpenAI. Based on the new company’s mission, actions speak louder than words.

Talking about AI legends, Geoffrey Hinton, one of the ‘Godfathers of AI’ (although the appropriate reference would be ‘of DeepLearning’), has announced its support for CuspAI, whose aim is to discover new materials that can perform ‘carbon capture,’ among other uses.

In what’s becoming a heavily crowded market, the idea of using AI to discover new materials is very exciting. That said, it comes across to me as the type of industry where industry leaders, like Google or OpenAI, might want to verticalize into, making me not very optimistic about the future of start-ups in the space.

For instance, Google Deepmind already has GNoMe, which I wrote about.

Moving on, one of the wildest start-up ideas ever has been announced: Butterflies. It’s a social media app where humans and AIs (named butterflies) co-exist and interact, raising $4.6 million.

You can join and create as many Butterflies as you need, and these AIs will start uploading photos and interacting with others autonomously.

I have two things to say about this. I hate this idea, and I really, really hate this idea. Really, are we losing our minds?

Hardware-wise, to celebrate NVIDIA’s new crown as the most valuable company in the world, they have released results that prove that their GPUs are the best out there, beating others like Intel’s Gaudi 2 GPUs.

These days, it seems NVIDIA can’t do no wrong. At this point, only two things can stop this beast: a Chinese blockade in the Taiwan Strait (halting advanced chips production), and limited energy grids, the latter of which you will receive an article tomorrow on the matter.

Luckily, nothing seems to indicate the former will take place anytime soon, and we have time to solve the latter problem… in theory.

Furthermore, it’s time for the ‘ol reliable’ OpenAI controversy. People have recently become extremely skeptical about OpenAI’s actions.

For starters, they are seriously considering becoming for-profit, signaling that their transition to closed-source is definitive. That’s totally fine; at least they are finally open about it.

But the moves that worry people are more ‘under the hood.’ To date, the start-up has already more than 35 lobbyists, which Bill Gurley, a famous VC investor, has used to claim that they are unequivocally searching for regulatory capture.

Trying to earn…

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