AI labs wage a reputational knife fight at Davos

Demis Hassabis, main enforcement serviceman of DeepMind Technologies Ltd., during a sheet league astatine the World Economic Forum (WEF) successful Davos, Switzerland. | Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images

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The leaders of the 3 preeminent frontier AI labs spent this week astatine the World Economic Forum successful Davos, Switzerland, taking shots astatine each different similar candidates successful a statesmanlike primary.

I helped commencement the quality cycle. During an interrogation connected Tuesday, I asked Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis astir OpenAI's determination to trial ads successful ChatGPT. "It's absorbing they've gone for that truthful early," helium said. "Maybe they consciousness they request to marque much revenue."

The adjacent day, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei piled …

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