Howdy, wizards.
Check out this solid piece from Ethan Mollick on two tactics to help leverage AI at the organizational level. He coins the terms The Crowd—employees using AI to innovate—and The Lab—a centralized team that builds and tests solutions.
Here’s the AI news brewing just for you.
DARIO’S PICKS
OpenAI just announced that they are opening offices NYC, Seattle, Paris, Brussels and Singapore. They’ve already got existing locations San Fransisco, London, Dublin and Tokyo.
Oliver Jay – a former executive from Asana and Dropbox – will oversee international operations and facilitate global expansion from Singapore.
They’ve also started hiring, and have a bunch of roles already out for all the locations except for Brussels and Paris.
Why it matters OpenAI wastes no time in putting to work the record-breaking $6.6 billion they raised last week. Also, interesting to note that they recently signed 3 core commitments of the EU AI Pact – and are now getting ready for its first EU expansion by adding Brussels and Paris to its location.
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DARIO’S PICKS
Remember the company behind the “emotionally intelligent” chatbot Pi, which were acquihired by Microsoft (and not without some Antitrust concerns) back in March? The remainder of the team has been busy pivoting to B2B; they recently introduced usage caps to consumer Pi, and have now introduced Inflection Enterprise and a commercial API.
There’s no demos or extensive details on what Inflection’s Enterprise looks like yet. However, here’s what's known so far:
The company is positioning the plan as “more than a chatbot”; an “enterprise-grade AI system” that works with your business’ existing data architecture. It aims to give more power to businesses than other solutions on the market by putting them in full ownership of their data, the fine-tuned model and the architecture it runs on.
Inflection are collaborating with Intel as an early customer to deploy the Enterprise solution. It will be integrated with the Intel Gaudi 3 AI chip and Intel Tiber AI Cloud platform for faster deployment, lower costs and better performance.
Why it matters Inflection has a had a roller coaster year, first raising $1.3 in 2023 only to be “eaten alive” by its main investor Microsoft earlier this year. They’re prioritising their limited resources on the Enterprise angle fully, for which they seem off to a promising start with their Intel collaboration.
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