Perplexity AI wants to challenge Google at search

Hi everyone! Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

👉 US and UK pulled out from the international AI Action Summit

👉 Cerebras Systems and Perplexity are joining forces to beat Google at search

👉 Sam Altman thinks Musk wants to slow down OpenAI

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What’s going on: The Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris concluded without a unified agreement as both the United States and the United Kingdom declined to sign the joint declaration. The statement, which aimed to ensure that AI development worldwide is "open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure, and trustworthy," was meant to guide global AI governance. However, both nations expressed significant reservations about the document's content and implications.

What does it mean: US Vice President, JD Vance, articulated a stance against what he perceived as potential ideological bias or censorship in AI governance, emphasizing the need to maintain US leadership in AI technology. On the other hand, the UK's refusal was based on concerns regarding the clarity of the declaration on issues like global governance and national security.

More details: 

• Despite the absence of the US and UK, the declaration was signed by 61 other countries, including major players like China, India, and Japan.

• Lighter regulation of AI has been a common topic across the event.

• In a speech yesterday, French president Emmanuel Macron, emphasized leaders should “avoid the risk-opportunity dilemma” and “the immediate need for regulation, which could block innovation.”

• The US’ decision not to sign the AI Action Summit declaration reflects a stance on diplomatic principles. In the initial phase of Donald Trump's second term as president, the US pulled out of multiple international organizations, such as the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Agreement.

What’s going on: Cerebras Systems and Perplexity AI are partnering to challenge the Google’s dominance in the search engine market which is estimated to have a value of $100 billion. They've launched the Sonar search model, which impressively processes at 1,200 tokens per second, leveraging Meta's Llama 3.3 70B model and Cerebras's AI chips.

What does it mean: This partnership follows Cerebras's previous successes, notably with DeepSeek, which demonstrated superior performance compared to traditional GPU setups. However, the big question remains whether the specialized AI chip approach is scalable and cost-effective enough to challenge the giants like Google and Bing.

More details:

• Internal testing shows Sonar beats models like GPT-4o mini and Claude 3.5 Haiku in user satisfaction, while surpassing more costly models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet in factuality.

• Sonar will first roll out to Perplexity Pro users, and broader availability will come later.

• The Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE-3) chip is the world's largest and fastest AI processor, featuring 900,000 AI cores and 44GB of on-chip SRAM. For more details, read this article.

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🐌 In an interview at the AI Action Summit in Paris, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed Elon Musk's $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI's nonprofit as an attempt to slow down the company. (Watch the interview)

🍎 Apple has reportedly partnered with Alibaba to bring its Apple Intelligence AI platform to China, after rejecting a potential collaboration with DeepSeek.

🤖 YouTube has added new AI features to the platform such as auto-dubbing for all Partner Program creators, machine learning to estimate user ages for tailored content, and new tools for video ideas, thumbnails, and language translation.

🚀 Workday, enterprise HR platform, has launched the Workday Agent System of Record, a platform that enables enterprises to manage, track, and optimize all their AI agents. Last week, Workday laid off 1750 employees due to AI utilization.

⚠ Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei criticized the AI Action Summit as a “missed opportunity” for not considering meaningful AI regulation and warned about the potential serious risks of rapid development of AI.

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