OpenAI submitted their policy proposal to the US government this morning. They directly link fair use with national security, and said if China continues to have free access to data while 'American companies are left without fair use access, the race for Al is effectively over.'
'The federal government can both secure Americans' freedom to learn from Al, and avoid forfeiting our Al lead to the PRC by preserving American Al models' ability to learn from copyrighted material'
They also argue for banning the use of PRC-produced models within Tier 1 countries that 'violate user privacy and create security risks such as the risk of IP theft.'
'designed to mirror the reasoning process underpinning the scientific method ... the AI co-scientist system is intended to uncover new, original knowledge and to formulate demonstrably novel research hypotheses and proposals'
It uses a team of six distinct agents 'inspired by the scientific method itself' using 'automated feedback to iteratively generate, evaluate, and refine hypotheses'
This morning the White House released the Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion.
If you live in one of the tier one nations, there are no restrictions on the amount of chips you can buy, or the size of the datacenter you can build.
This is new, a carveout for 'clearly innocuous purposes'. Any order less than 1700 GPU's will not require a license, and does not count against the national chip caps. This is probably a result of the backlash leading up to this.
NVIDIA has built a 2.5 billion parameter audio model called Fugatto that generates music, voice, and sound from text and audio input. Sound inputs become completely mutable. It can change a piano line to a human voice singing or make 'a trumpet bark or a saxophone meow.
Using a feature called temporal interpolation, Fugatto can 'create the sounds of a rainstorm moving through an area with crescendos of thunder that slowly fade into the distance. It also gives users fine-grained control over how the soundscape evolves'
For anyone who hasn't been tuned into all this, some of the language in yesterday's National Security Memo probably seemed a little surreal. The shift in tone began about six weeks ago, after the infrastructure meeting at the White House on September 12th.
That was the same meeting where Sam Altman proposed his 5GW datacenter plan. Whatever was said in that room had an immediate effect. This culminated in the NSM, but there's been similar language for weeks now; when it comes to energy and recruitment, do whatever it takes.
After the meeting, CNBC ran into Jensen leaving the White House. 'Obviously,' he said, 'we are at the beginning of a new industrial revolution.' The brakes came off on nuclear shortly afterwards, or as everyone in politics began calling it, Clean Energy.
This morning the White House issued a National Security Memorandum declaring that 'AI is likely to affect almost all domains with national security significance'. Attracting technical talent and building computational power are now official national security priorities.
DoS, DoD and DHS 'shall each use all available legal authorities to assist in attracting and rapidly bringing to the United States individuals with relevant technical expertise who would improve United States competitiveness in AI and related fields'
It is now the official policy that the United States must lead the world in the ability to train new foundation models. All government agencies will work to promote these capabilities.