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The Battle for AGI: Giants Collide

The race to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is heating up. Ilya Sutskever’s SSI, Inc. raised $1 billion to pursue safe superintelligence. Meanwhile, Elon Musk's xAI just launched Colossus, the world’s largest data center, housing 100,000 GPUs, each priced at $30k. Not to be outdone, Sam Altman’s OpenAI has become a $100 billion company, fueled by massive investments from Andreessen Horowitz and Jeff Bezos.

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If you want to keep up with the latest in the AI world, this week’s edition is packed with groundbreaking news. From billion-dollar funding rounds to data center innovations, this newsletter brings you the top AI know-how of the week.

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TODAY ON THE WEEK IN AI

Top AI News of the Week

• SSI, Inc. Raises $1B for Safe Superintelligence

• Elon Musk's Colossus: World’s Largest Data Center

• OpenAI Nears GPT-Next: 100 Times More Powerful than GPT-4

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TOP AI NEWS OF THE WEEK

SSI, Inc. Raises $1B for Safe Superintelligence

Co-founded by Ilya Sutskever, SSI, Inc. has secured $1 billion in funding just three months after its inception. This Palo Alto-based startup focuses on safe AI development and is now valued at $5 billion. The funds will be used to acquire compute power and hire top AI talent to lead the race for a safe AGI.

Elon Musk's Colossus: World’s Largest Data Center

xAI has launched Colossus, a supercomputer built with 100,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, making it the most powerful AI training system on the planet. Colossus will fuel Musk's Grok model, which is aimed at outpacing OpenAI’s GPT-4. This ambitious move highlights Musk's strategy to dominate AI with sheer computing power.

OpenAI Nears GPT-Next: 100 Times More Powerful than GPT-4

OpenAI is closing in on the release of GPT-Next, which is set to be 100 times more powerful than GPT-4. This multimodal AI will not only handle text but also process images and video, revolutionizing AI’s ability to interact with real-world data in multiple formats. Its launch is expected to redefine generative AI capabilities.

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