AI Market News: Newspapers' Copyright Suit, Anthropic's New Plan and More

AI News for Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Newspapers Suing Microsoft and OpenAI
Anthropic Launches Team Plan and iOS App
Artists Suing Google
Microsoft Shares 'Responsible AI Transparency Report'
Amazon Reports AI Increasing Cloud Revenue
Microsoft Investing $1.7B in Indonesia for Cloud and AI
NVIDIA Updates ChatRTX
Atlassian Rolling Out Rovo AI Assistant
Amazon Releases Q Developer
MongoDB Launches AI Applications Program
Irish Roundtable in the Valley Coming to Stanford

1. Newspapers Suing Microsoft and OpenAI

A group of eight U.S. newspapers filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI in a New York federal court this week, according to CNBC. The newspapers reportedly allege the AI companies’ GenAI products use “millions” of the group’s articles without permission and without directing users to their websites as well as attribute inaccurate information to the group.

2. Anthropic Launches Team Plan and iOS App

San Francisco-based Anthropic, an AI research company, released its paid Team plan for a minimum of five team members at $30 a user per month. The plan includes everything in the paid Pro plan, including access to the Claude 3 Opus model, as well as higher usage limits, central billing and administration and early access to collaboration features. Anthropic also released its iOS app, which is free to download for all Claude users. The app is designed to offer the same experience as on the mobile web.

3. Artists Suing Google

A group of artists filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Google in a California federal court last week, according to Reuters. The group reportedly alleges that Google used their work without permission to train Imagen, its AI image generator. In the proposed class action, the group alleges that Google used “billions” of images to teach Imagen to respond to text prompts.

4. Microsoft Shares 'Responsible AI Transparency Report'

Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft published its annual “Responsible AI Transparency Report.” The 40-page inaugural report is set up to provide several insights: how Microsoft builds GenAI applications; makes decisions and oversees the deployment of GenAI applications; supports customers in building GenAI applications; and learns in the responsible AI community.

5. Amazon Reports AI Increasing Cloud Revenue

Seattle-based Amazon released its earnings report for the fourth quarter of 2024. The report says sales in Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit increased 17% year over year to $25 billion, and AWS’ operating income increased to $9.4 billion from $5.1 billion in the same period last year. “The combination of companies renewing their infrastructure modernization efforts and the appeal of AWS’ AI capabilities is re-accelerating AWS’ growth rate,” said Andy Jassy, president and CEO, Amazon.

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6. Microsoft Investing $1.7B in Indonesia for Cloud and AI

Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion over the next four years in new cloud and AI infrastructure in Indonesia, AI skilling opportunities for 840,000 people and supporting the nation’s developer community. The move is Microsoft's largest investment in Indonesia. The initiatives will help the Indonesian government reach its Golden Indonesia 2045 Vision, which aims to transform the nation into a “global economic powerhouse,” according to the company.

7. NVIDIA Updates ChatRTX

Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA, an AI chip and software maker, released an update to ChatRTX, its personalized GenAI chatbot based on a user’s local data. The update offers support for new AI models, including Gemma, the open, local LLM by Google, and ChatGLM3, an open, English and Chinese LLM based on the general language model framework. The update also allows users to interact with image data and chat with their data using their voice.

8. Atlassian Rolling Out Rovo AI Assistant

Sydney, Australia-based Atlassian, a maker of software for teams, introduced its Rovo AI Assistant powered by Atlassian Intelligence. Rovo is designed to help users accelerate finding, learning and acting on information dispersed across a range of internal tools. The assistant features search, chat and agents. There's currently a waitlist to use Rovo.

9. Amazon Introducing Q Developer

Amazon’s AWS is making Amazon Q Developer generally available after previewing the product last year. The GenAI assistant for developers is trained on AWS knowledge. It is designed to help developers understand and manage their AWS cloud infrastructure as well build apps on AWS, research best practices, troubleshoot and resolve errors.

10. MongoDB Launches AI Applications Program

New York-based MongoDB, a database platform, introduced its MongoDB AI Applications Program (MAAP). The program is designed to help companies build and deploy applications with GenAI technology at enterprise scale. MAAP provides customers strategic consulting, professional services and an integrated end-to-end technology stack from MongoDB and its partners. MAAP will be available in the "coming months," and users can sign-up to be notified of its release.

11. Irish Roundtable in the Valley Coming to Stanford

Belfast, Northern Ireland-based Aisling Events is producing An Irish Roundtable in the Valley: The Economic Impact of AI on the World of Work on May 9 at Stanford University in California. The event will begin at 8 a.m. and conclude at 1 p.m., with a networking lunch afterward. It will feature tech leaders from across the “island of Ireland and Irish America” who will explore the global impact of AI with Silicon Valley leaders. The agenda and speaker lineup for the event — #IrishRoundtable — are online. VKTR readers can use the registration code IRISH for a 50% discount on tickets.

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