The CEO of a Bengaluru-based AI company, Suchana Seth, was arrested by Goa Police for allegedly murdering her four-year-old son at a service apartment in Goa. She had checked in with her son on Sunday and left for Bengaluru the next morning after committing the crime. The police suspect an "estranged relationship" with her husband as a motive for the murder. The woman was arrested in Karnataka, and the Goa Police team is expected to bring her back to Goa.
Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk provides insights into the entrepreneur's upbringing, including the emotional scars inflicted by his father. The book also delves into Musk's fluid family dynamics and his obsession with population growth. Additionally, it explores Musk's controversial statements and actions, such as his purchase of X (formerly Twitter) and his rightward turn toward libertarianism. The biography highlights Musk's ongoing engineering projects, including the development of a humanoid robot called Optimus and his plans to start his own AI company.
Anthropic, the AI company backed by Google, has introduced a paid version of its Claude chatbot called Claude Pro, priced at $20 per month in the US and £18 per month in the UK. The paid plan offers priority access, early access to new features, and the ability to send more messages. With Claude Pro, users can send five times more messages compared to the free tier. This move puts Anthropic in competition with OpenAI's ChatGPT Plus plan and other AI chatbot providers.
Elon Musk has launched a new AI company called xAI, aiming to understand the true nature of the universe. The team behind xAI consists of former members from DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Twitter, and Tesla, who have worked on projects such as DeepMind's AlphaCode and OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 chatbots. Musk intends to position xAI as a competitor to companies like OpenAI and Google. The startup will focus on the mathematics of deep learning and develop the theory of everything for large neural networks. Musk has incorporated xAI in Nevada and plans to work closely with Twitter, Tesla, and other companies.
