GLOSSARY: GPT-V Coming Soon?

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TAUSIF ALAM & AMIT RAJA NAIK

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A few days ago, OpenAI, in partnership with Eric Schmidt, announced the launch of a $10 million grants program – Superalignment Fast Grants – to support technical research towards the alignment and safety of advanced AI systems, which are likely to possess fundamentally new and different technical challenges beyond current capabilities.

All these developments point to one thing: OpenAI is most likely to release GPT-5 (or GPT-V) sooner than expected, as the team is waking up to potential safety risks before it can spiral out of control. In fact, it even launched a preparedness framework that aims to track, evaluate, forecast, and protect against the catastrophic events posed by increasingly powerful models. “Brace yourselves, AGI is coming,” said OpenAI’s Steven Heidel on X.

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OpenAI loves drama. Recently, the company teased everyone with GPT-V. A user on X recently discovered the link ‘openai.com/v-test’, which now shows a 404 error.

This trolling comes just a few days after the same user discovered a leaked document saying GPT-4.5 is about to drop. The document also mentioned that Google rushed the release of Gemini because of a possible GPT-4.5 drop.

However, Sam Altman put all the speculations to rest by replying with a simple ‘nah’ to the query ‘gpt4.5 leak legit or no?’ by a user on X. Interestingly, the GPT-4.5 leak also included unrealistic pricing. Therefore, it cannot be conclusively determined whether Altman dismissed just the pricing or the existence of GPT-4.5 altogether and instead is likely to release GPT-V or GPT-5.

Dimitris Papailiopoulos recently shared on X a screenshot of ChatGPT Plus responding that it is running on ‘gpt5-feeltheAGI-this-is-what-ilya-saw-turbo-512k’. He asked the very same question: “GPT-5 about to drop soon?”

Read the full story to find out.

Sasha Luccioni’s AI Concerns

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Sasha Luccioni, an AI researcher and climate lead at Hugging Face, in a recent interaction with AIM, expressed concerns over the current state of AI development, criticising the trend of prioritising profit over ethics in the industry.

“It’s like you imagine there being safe cars and cars,” said Luccioni, capturing the perspective on the problematic division between "responsible AI" and “regular AI”, alongside emphasising the absurdity of treating ethical considerations as optional or secondary in AI.

Read the complete story here.

AI Startups to Watch Out For in 2024

The AI ecosystem in India is thriving with a diverse range of companies receiving significant funding. Indian AI companies garnered $1.11 billion across 47 funding rounds in 2022. A notable chunk of these startups (17%) offer conversational AI solutions, while 15% work in computer vision. Roughly about 60+ pure-play AI startups are working on building native AI solutions for the diverse population.

Here’s a glimpse of some of the most existing companies to look forward to in 2024:

Karya AI: Provides high-quality data annotation services for AI/ML models.

Kissan AI: Building generative AI applications, models and datasets for Indian farmers.

Krutrim AI: Building India’s first full-stack AI solution.

MachineHack GenAI: Hosts generative AI competitions, courses, assessments and coding challenges and has built an AI co-pilot for developers, offering guidance throughout their AI career journey.

Sarvam AI: On a mission to develop the “full-stack” for generative AI, ranging from research-led innovations in training custom AI models to an enterprise-grade platform for authoring and deployment.

Check out the complete list here.