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Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion
Pivot 5
February 11, 2025
1. Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion
The Verge
Elon Musk is leading a $97.4 billion bid to buy OpenAI's nonprofit arm, a move that comes at a pivotal moment for the company. The offer, which includes Musk's AI company xAI and venture heavyweights like Valor Equity Partners, Hollywood mogul Ari Emanuel, and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale's venture firm 8VC, challenges OpenAI's betrayal of its original mission to develop AI safely and openly.
The bid adds complexity to OpenAI's planned for-profit conversion, creating a thorny situation for CEO Sam Altman, who is already navigating negotiations with Microsoft and other stakeholders over equity in the for-profit structure.
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2. Project Starlight: video restoration
🚀Big news! We’re launching Project Starlight: the first-ever diffusion model for video restoration. Enhance old, low-quality videos to stunning high-resolution. This is our biggest leap since Video AI was first launched.
Like & comment Starlight 👇 to get early-access!— Topaz Labs (@topazlabs)
1:44 PM • Feb 6, 2025
3. Macron posts montage of deepfakes of himself to promote Paris AI summit
The Guardian
The impact of artificial intelligence on the environment and inequality have featured in the opening exchanges of a global summit in Paris attended by political leaders, tech executives and experts.
On Sunday, Emmanuel Macron, the French president, promoted the event by posting a montage of deepfake images of himself on Instagram, including a video of 'him' dancing in a disco with various 1980s hairstyles, in a tongue-in-cheek reference to the technology’s capabilities.
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4. Krea Chat: a new image and video model
Krea Chat is here.
a brand new way of creating images and videos with AI.
open beta out now.
— KREA AI (@krea_ai)
3:30 PM • Feb 7, 2025
5. Apple team shows self-driving AI
Apple team shows self-driving AI can learn entirely by practicing against itself - no human driving data needed.
In testing, their system averages 17.5 years of continuous driving between incidents, far surpassing humans. All through self-play, not imitation.
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick)
1:19 AM • Feb 7, 2025