AI

In January, TIME revealed Microsoft-backed OpenAI outsourced workers in Kenya in late 2021 to moderate internet data, forming a fundamental part of developing generative AI sensation ChatGPT’s safety system.

AMD president and CEO Lisa Su outlined plans to target the China market with fully US-compliant AI GPUs, substituting higher-speed chips to avoid sanctions.

Some of the top AI companies in the US including OpenAI, Amazon, Google and Microsoft made voluntary commitments to the government to implement measures designed to ensure the safe and transparent development of the technology.

Meta Platforms made its open-source language model Llama 2 commercially available for free, encouraging wider deployments and testing from businesses and start-ups.

Consultancy giant McKinsey & Company entered into a strategic collaboration with developer Cohere to offer AI tools tailored to enterprise needs.

Eccentric billionaire Elon Musk became the latest player to press into the increasingly crowded AI space with the formation of start-up xAI, a move revealed hours before Google announced a major expansion of its Bard chatbot.

SK Telecom (SKT) upgraded its A. chatbot with new features it pledged deliver a smarter conversational AI, claiming improvements to the overall user experience while furthering its presence in the technology sector.