Rakuten Plans to Launch Large Language Model, CEO Looks to the Future of Artificial Intelligence


Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker says AI's existential risk is overblown. In an open Quillette letter to Scott Alexander, he declined a public debate on the issue, calling such debates a spectator sport, and rejected extreme scenarios like the paperclip maximizer.....
OpenAI CEO Altman told the UN Security Council that rapidly advancing AI brings immediate benefits and risks, like the Renaissance or disruptive like the Industrial Revolution. He urged global cooperation on standards for capability and risk assessment, safety, and human oversight of frontier AI systems.....
The Grok Bot agent developed by Elon Musk's SpaceX AI team was launched about a month ago, and its weekly active users have exceeded 400,000. As of September 14, it reached 418,000 users, representing a 24% increase compared to the previous month, indicating its market popularity and competitive potential, bringing new changes to the AI landscape.
Bill Gates said at the Gates Foundation Goals for the Future conference in New York that he had hoped to only talk about foreign aid and reducing child mortality, but the rapid development of AI has forced him to discuss whether society is prepared to deal with AI risks during meetings with world leaders. He described AI as 'ten science fiction stories happening at the same time,' and was shocked by the progress of AI about a year ago.
It has been disclosed that SpaceX's AI department, SpaceXAI, is internally discussing the potential acquisition of customer and operational data from struggling or bankrupt startups to train models such as Grok, in order to obtain high-quality external data to enhance performance. This move indicates that it no longer solely relies on Elon Musk's X platform and internal AI mentor data, but is beginning to expand diverse data sources for Grok.