Microsoft's AI business has reached a $37 billion annual run rate, marking a 123% year-over-year surge. The growth was revealed in the company's Q3 earnings, underscoring strong demand for AI services and cloud offerings.
In a quirky research development, OpenAI co-founder Alec Radford led a team that released Talkie, a 13-billion-parameter language model trained exclusively on text published before 1931. The model is deliberately frozen in time, lacking knowledge of World War II, the internet, or modern events.
Meanwhile, French AI startup Mistral faced scrutiny after a NewsGuard audit found that its Le Chat chatbot repeated Iran-war disinformation in 60% of leading prompts. The audit highlights ongoing challenges in ensuring AI-generated content remains accurate and unbiased.
On the open-source front, Arc Gate launched as a prompt injection proxy aimed at improving security for AI applications, while AeroJAX was released to accelerate machine learning workloads.