Could Meta’s AI be The U.S.’s New Secret Weapon?

What we’ll cover today:

🔒 Meta’s AI Joins National Security?

🤖 AI is Nonsense- Neil Lawrence.

🧠 AI Gains Power Through Extended Thinking.

🔗 The Event Roundup.

Meta’s AI Joins National Security?

Meta just announced that Llama's AI model will now be accessible to U.S. national security agencies and defence contractors.

This is big news.

Until now, Meta has banned any military use of its AI.

Why the sudden change?

• China’s military recently used an older version of Llama.

• This raised severe concerns about global AI competition.

What’s Meta’s response?

• Top agencies in the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand now have access.

• Major players like IBM, Lockheed Martin, and Microsoft are on board, too.

Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, believes open-source AI is key for U.S. security and growth.

With China pushing its own AI race, Meta’s decision could be game-changing.

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1. AI is Nonsense- Neil Lawrence.

   

   Source: Neil Lawrence.

Artificial intelligence has more in common with ants than humans, says Neil Lawrence. Only by taking a more nuanced view of intelligence can we see how machines will truly transform society

In his new book The Atomic Human: Understanding ourselves in the age of AI, Lawrence argues that we can make the most of both only by better understanding our own intelligence and how wildly different it is from its artificial counterpart.

Here’s The Article

2.  AI Gains Power Through Extended Thinking.

In this clip, OpenAI's Noam Brown talks about how when you give AI the ability to think for longer, it develops emergent capabilities like being able self-correct its reasoning and its clear that this is a scalable direction for future development.

Here’s The Clip

1. Microsoft’s AI-powered chatbot is now available for these Xbox users.

Microsoft has been testing their AI-powered chatbot for Xbox for several months, and the update is now out for selected users. 

According to the tech giant, the AI chatbot can quickly obtain information from Xbox help pages to answer questions about Xbox console and game support difficulties.

2. Apple CEO Tim Cook uses this AI tool daily and says it changed his life.

Cook typically starts his day around 4 a.m. or 5 a.m. The first thing he does is check his iPhone for emails and Apple’s overnight sales reports. 

Until recently, he read every message in his inbox, including feedback directly from Apple customers. That’s a big commitment, mainly since he receives around 800 emails daily.

3. Perplexity AI is in the final stages of raising a $500 million round at a valuation of $9 billion.

Perplexity started the year with a roughly $500 million valuation. Since then, the company has continued attracting investor interest amid the generative AI boom, raising four funding rounds this year.