Weekly bulletin from AIport, issue #5

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North America:

• Elon Musk sues Sam Altman of OpenAI for abandoning the company’s mission to pursue higher profits. 

• Google Cloud forms a new strategic partnership, this time with Stack Overflow, promising to bring GenAI to millions of developers. 

• DeepMind unveils its new GenAI tool that can create Super Mario-like games from square one.

• Leo, a privacy-oriented AI assistant from Brave, is now available on Android. 

• Apple scraps its autonomous electric car project and redirects efforts toward new GenAI initiatives.

• A Canadian attorney gets chastised in a B.C. court for citing fake cases made up by ChatGPT.

Europe:

• The historic EU AI Act vote, set to define the legislative future of AI technology in Europe, gets moved to March 13.

• The world’s largest trade show for the telecoms industry takes place in Barcelona, Spain, with global players like Huawei presenting their AI solutions.

• Mistral Large by France’s Mistral AI is touted to be the second best LLM available via an API, second only to GPT-4 and ahead of Claude 2, Gemini Pro, and Llama 2 70B.

Asia:

• In China, the first ever AI-generated cartoon series airs on state TV, as the country’s leading tech company, Alibaba, slashes its Cloud services prices by as much as 55% to attract AI developers.  

• India’s politicians are outraged over Gemini’s responses that refer to PM Modi’s policies as “fascist.” 

• Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, meets with Japan’s leader, Fumio Kishida, in Tokyo to discuss the future of AI. 

Australia:

• Tech giants claim that Australia’s new safety standards will, in fact, limit the effectiveness of AI models in preventing misuse and unlawful behavior.