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Thursdayās AI Report
⢠1.Ā š¢ xAI co-founder quits!
⢠2. šĀ Protect your online info with Incogni
⢠3. š How AI sped up problem-solving for this firm
⢠4. āļø Trending AI tools
⢠5. š« Apple disproves Muskās accusation
⢠6. š”Ā Anthropic secures key talent
⢠7. šĀ Recommended resources
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Igor Babuschkin, co-founder of Elon Muskās AI start-up, xAI, has announced heās leaving the company to continue his mission to develop āAI thatās safe and beneficial to humanity.ā
Babuschkin, who built and led xAIās engineering team, is starting his own companyāBabuschkin Venturesāto support AI safety research and back start-ups that aim to āadvance humanity.ā
He was inspired to start Babuschkin Ventures after discussing how AI systems could be built safely to help future generations flourish with the founder of The-Future-of-Life Institute, Max Tegmark.
Despite his shock exit, he revealed he has ālearned two priceless lessons from Musk: #1 to be fearless in rolling up your sleeves to personally dig into technical problems and #2 to have a maniacal sense of urgency.ā
This comes after xAI recently went through weeks of scandal and public backlash after releasing an upgraded version of its chatbot, Grok, which was citing Muskās personal opinions when answering controversial questions, going on antisemitic rants, and generating semi-nude videos of public figures. This somewhat overshadowed Groks strong performance when compared to industry benchmarks.
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As a result, it reduced wasted water and maintenance costs and sped up problem solving, removing the need for specialist expertise.
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Earlier this week, Musk accused Apple of giving (its partner) OpenAI preferential treatment over xAI, claiming Apple has made it "impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store."
Apple has responded, insisting that the App Store "is designed to be fairā and features apps āthrough algorithmic recommendations, and curated lists selected by experts using objective criteria.
Not only that, but several users have highlighted that other appsāsuch as DeepSeek and Perplexityāhave managed to secure top spots in the App Store, completely refuting Muskās accusations.
After announcing that it would give the US government access to its AI models for $1, Anthropic has revealed that it has acquired most of the team behind Humanloop, a prompt management platform.
All three of Humanloopās UK-based co-foundersāCEO Raza Habib, CTO Peter Hayes, and CPO Jordan Burgessāhave all joined Anthropic, alongside around a dozen engineers and researchers.
Humanloops' experience in āAI tooling and evaluation will be invaluable as we continue to advance our work in building useful AI systems,ā and could help Anthropic secure a lead over key rivals, OpenAI, and Google.
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