1. OpenAI CEO In Talks For Trillions To Boost AI Chip Production

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has been in discussions with several parties, including the UAE government, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, TSMC, and U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, about raising funds of $5–7 trillion for expanding global AI chip manufacturing capacity. He has proposed the idea of raising money from investors in the Middle East to encourage TSMC to build and operate multiple chip manufacturing plants.

2. Stanford Housekeeping Robot ALOHA 2 Released

On February 8th, Stanford and Google DeepMind introduced the Mobile ALOHA 2, which is a second-generation housekeeping robot. The ALOHA 2 is a low-cost hardware device designed for manual teleoperation. It offers improved performance and durability compared to its predecessor, which enables large-scale data collection on more complex tasks. To aid research on large-scale manual manipulation, the research team has made all hardware designs for ALOHA 2 open-source and provided detailed tutorials, MuJoCo models, and system identification.

Paper address：https://aloha-2.github.io/assets/aloha2.pdf

Project address：https://aloha-2.github.io/

3. Apple Releases Open-source Prompt-based Image Editing Tool MGIE

Recently, the Apple team made an image editing tool called MGIE open-source. This tool uses a multimodal macro-model to solve the problem of insufficient instruction guidance. By taking a photo and typing in a textual instruction, the phone will start automatically retouching the image. MGIE consists of a multimodal macro model and a diffusion model. These models learn to obtain clear and concise instructions and provide visually relevant guidance. Through end-to-end training, the diffusion model updates synchronously and performs image editing using the latent imagination of the intended target. MGIE benefits from inherent visual derivation and resolves ambiguous human commands to enable rational editing.

4. OpenAI CEO: GPT-4 Getting Lazy Problem Alleviated

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on social media platform X on Feb. 4 to share progress in solving the GPT-4 getting lazy problem: “gpt-4 had a slow start on its new year’s resolutions but should now be much less lazy now!”

A study conducted by external researchers on GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 has revealed significant variations in their performance and behavior, which has reportedly deteriorated substantially over time.

In response to these findings, OpenAI has announced a new version of the powerful GPT-4 Turbo. The company asserts that this updated model addresses the identified issues by completing tasks such as code generation more thoroughly than the previous versions.

5. Google Bard Revealed To Be Renamed Gemini

On February 3rd, Twitter users shared a screenshot of the Google Bard update log, which revealed that Google Bard is expected to undergo some changes in the coming days. Firstly, it will be renamed Gemini and will launch its most powerful model, the Gemini Ultra 1.0. Secondly, an Android app for Gemini will also be launched.

6. Tesla’s FSD beta v12.2 Released To Employees

Tesla has started rolling out its latest Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta version 12 to employees, which is expected to be launched to the public later this year.

The FSD beta v12.2 is being released to Tesla employees and “special groups” for the first time. According to Teslascope, the point version of the FSD beta was spotted on software version 2023.44.30.15, which also began rolling out on Friday.

Teslascope predicts that Tesla could still release FSD beta v12 to the public before March, as they have been informed that the company’s goal is to release an update soon.

7. Apple Triples Autonomous Vehicle Testing in California, Records Show

Just a short distance from Apple’s main headquarters, a gold SUV equipped with a large, boxy sensor on its roof was observed navigating a four-way intersection and executing a left turn, much like any regular vehicle.

However, this was not an ordinary car. According to public records, it was one of 67 vehicles equipped with autonomous capabilities that the renowned tech company is currently testing in California. This represents a more than threefold increase in the scale of testing over the past year.

The significant increase in miles tested on California’s roads indicates that Apple has been discreetly expanding its autonomous vehicle ambitions. Records indicate that between December 2022 and November 2023, Apple’s cars were tested over 450,000 miles in California. This is more than three times the distance tested the previous year and the largest increase among companies conducting the most testing in the state.

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