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☕️ Lawsuit Troubles For xAI's and Tesla's Elon Musk
Elon Musk goes on a lawsuit rollercoaster this week, first dropping his lawsuit against OpenAI unexpectedly and then getting sued by Tesla's shareholders himself. Meanwhile, LinkedIn dips into generative AI to help Premium subscribers find jobs, Google finally brings its Gemini Nano model to Pixel 8 and 8a phones, and Oracle partners with OpenAI to boost the company's AI training efforts. Join us at AI Tangle as we untangle this week's happenings in AI.
THE BIG AI STORY
The CEO of Tesla and xAI, Elon Musk, recently came under fire from Tesla shareholders for Musk starting the latter company, which the angry investors state is a competing AI company that the CEO has been diverting resources to at the cost of Tesla's growth. After starting a lawsuit of his own just a few months ago against OpenAI's Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, it seems that his own backers, shareholders such as Cleveland Bakers and Teamsters Pension Fund, have come to give him a proper headache of his own.
So what's happening at Tesla?
The plaintiffs accuse Musk and the board of breaching fiduciary duties by allowing Musk to launch xAI, thereby enriching him unjustly. They allege that Musk violated Tesla's business ethics code and diverted talent and resources from Tesla to xAI, with a special citation for the recent diversion of a bulk shipment of AI processors from Nvidia, reserved for Tesla, to Musk's social media company X. The plaintiffs demand Musk to give up his stake in xAI to Tesla.
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Speaking of lawsuits and Elon Musk, Musk recently withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI and two of the company's co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. The lawsuit, which was filed in February, was made under the claim that OpenAI abandoned the startup's original mission of developing artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity and not with profit in mind. However, one day after criticizing Apple and OpenAI publically, Musk withdrew his arguably on-shaky-ground case, and it was dismissed without prejudice.
Google's June Pixel drop brings the Gemini Nano AI model, the smallest of the family of three Gemini models, to Pixel 8 and 8a users, allowing for detailed transcription summaries in the Recorder app. The update also includes Display Port connectivity, reverse phone number lookup, and fall and crash detection for Pixel Watch 2. Additionally, the Find My Device feature will work even when the phone is discharged, and manual lens picking in the camera has been made available for the Pixel 6 Pro, 7 Pro, and Pixel Fold.
OpenAI, Microsoft, and Oracle are partnering to increase computing capacity for running ChatGPT. Despite Microsoft's $13 billion investment in OpenAI, the latter needs more computing power than Microsoft alone can provide. For clarity's sake, OpenAI also posted on X/Twitter that the company's "strategic cloud relationship with Microsoft is unchanged" and that this partnership with Oracle would "allow it to use the Azure AI platform on OCI for inference and other needs."
LinkedIn is introducing AI-powered features for Premium users, including a natural language job search tool, resume review and improvement suggestions, and AI chatbots for business advice - all to help users land a job with less hassle. LinkedIn says it will also enhance its search capabilities with generative AI, aiming to make every search interaction smarter. These features will roll out in the coming weeks, according to LinkedIn chief product officer Tomer Cohen.
Databricks has announced LakeFlow, a data engineering solution that handles data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration. The tool eliminates the need for third-party ones, allowing users to build data pipelines and ingest data from various databases and enterprise applications. The decision was driven by customer demand for better data ingestion capabilities. LakeFlow, which consists of LakeFlow Connect, LakeFlow Pipelines, and LakeFlow Jobs, will be rolled out in phases, with LakeFlow Connect releasing first.
Mistral AI, often seen as one of OpenAI's main European competitors, recently raised €600 million in a funding round led by existing investor General Catalyst. The company's valuation rose to €5.8 billion after the Series B funding round, a stark increase from its December valuation of €2 billion. Mistral AI said the extra funds would go towards further adding computing capacity, recruiting workers, and expanding its international presence, mentioning the US specifically.
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