AI developers are not under all-out pressure to pay yet. Some companies with large volumes of academic text or casual conversations say they have no plans to start charging for their APIs or similar data portals. PLOS, a publisher of scientific research whose content has been leveraged in AI training, is “not likely” to change its fairly unrestrictive terms of use, spokesperson David Knutson says. Online community platform Discord has no plans to modify its API offerings, which are free and provided under terms that forbid AI training, says spokesperson Swaleha Carlson.
At Stack Overflow, charging for its API is just one part of a broader AI strategy that the company expects to unveil in a few months. About 10 percent of Stack Overflow's nearly 600 staff are focused on the initiative, which includes developing its own generative AI services. For example, an assistant function could help guide people as they compose questions to post.
Mark Zuckerberg will likely not be getting a royal welcome in China — like the one Elon Musk got in May — anytime soon.
Meta is reportedly in talks with Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings to bring its Quest virtual-reality headsets to the country, The Wall Street Journal first reported. The company has been trying to break into China since 2021, when Zuckerberg questioned why Apple and Tesla are allowed to sell their products in the country, but Meta is not, according to the Journal.
Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology.
L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them.
The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on.