AI Post — Artificial Intelligence

🌱 EcoGPT is growing fast and planting trees along the way In just six months, EcoGPT has reached 5M+ users, planted more than 425,000 trees, and delivered over 5 trillion tokens. The AI platform is free to use, powered by efficient open-source AI, and says it doesn’t train foundation models on your chats. Growth is accelerating at 50%+ month over month, and the team is hiring. Source. @aipost 🏴

🤖 OpenAI CAUGHT Russian operatives using ChatGPT in a campaign targeting schools in Peru. Their internal reports claim they posed as a regional education authority in Peru to get schools to hold Ukraine-related events. OpenAI says the campaign drew a reaction from at least one Polish member of the European Parliament. Meanwhile, Iranian operatives used 7 fake authors to publish almost 100 articles in outlets including Daily Kos. OpenAI says it has banned the Russian and Iranian accounts. @aipost 🏴

❗️Mark Zuckerberg tells the FT that Meta has FINALLY caught up with OpenAI and Anthropic at the AI frontier. He's pledging more spending and still REJECTS calls to slow AI development. Meta is already building its next model, and expects development to get 'quite a bit faster from here'. Meta expects to do 'way more things' in the future, but each task could require 'somewhat fewer people'. @aipost 🏴

❗️Satya Nadella says Microsoft is making its "BIGGEST BET YET" on its own AI chips. Starting in 2027, Microsoft plans MULTI-GIGAWATT Maia deployments, potentially exceeding 1 MILLION chips, making them its primary AI inference system. Maia 300 promises 40% more tokens per watt than leading GPU systems. @aipost 🏴

❗️The Information just reported a filmmaker-focused startup is negotiating deep access to OpenAI’s shuttered Sora video model. Jeffrey Katzenberg, former Sora research lead Bill Peebles and ex-Dropbox CFO Sujay Jaswa co-founded that unnamed startup to build AI video for filmmakers. Under the terms being discussed, the startup could heavily customize Sora and sell software built on it, while OpenAI would get an undisclosed equity stake. Source. @aipost 🏴