This week, the tech industry turned its attention to Elon Musk and OpenAI. In response to Musk's lawsuit against the company, OpenAI countered with its own claim that Musk is seeking a merger between OpenAI and Tesla.
In other areas of AI, Anthropic announced the Claude 3 model family, three advanced chatbots. And on the Apple side, the company released updated MacBook Air models with his M3 chip, as well as his iOS 17.4 update for iPhone.
Below, Hypebeast has compiled this week's top technology articles to help you stay on top of the latest trends in the industry.
OpenAI reveals Elon Musk has left the company after refusing to merge with Tesla
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OpenAI publicly responded to Elon Musk's lawsuit against the company with a blog post and email receipt detailing the dissolution of its relationship with the company. Musk was a co-founder and early supporter of his OpenAI, but the founders had mutually decided to start a commercial entity within the company.
But Musk wanted that effort to take the form of a merger with Tesla, something founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman disagreed with. “At the end of 2017, we and Elon decided that the next step in this mission was to form a for-profit organization,” the post reads. “Elon wanted to acquire a majority stake, gain initial control of the board, and become CEO. In the midst of these discussions, he withheld funding.” The argument is a compelling case for OpenAI, which is likely to face a lengthy legal battle.
Apple releases iOS 17.4 update for iPhone
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Apple announced 118 new emojis as part of iOS 17.4. The new emoji lineup available for iPhone Xs and newer models includes mushroom, phoenix, lime, broken chain, and shaking head.
Other parts of the update include the ability to peel and paste emojis into chats within Messages and the introduction of Apple Podcasts transcripts, available in English, French, Spanish, and German.
Anthropic launches new flagship AI chatbot family, Claude 3
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Anthropic continues to advance its AI with the rollout of Claude 3. The company's third-generation model family is described as setting “new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks,” and is actually comprised of three bots, each aimed at: Another use.
Claude Haiku is the cheapest model and also the fastest for reading data and research papers. Claude Sonnet, on the other hand, is built to automate the search and sale of mundane knowledge. Rounding out this trio is Claude Opus, the other likely the more expensive of the two, but with the highest accuracy rate of 95.4%.
Claude Sonnet and Claude Haiku have already been rolled out, and Claude Opus will be launched soon.
Apple announces MacBook Air models equipped with M3 chip
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Apple has updated the MacBook Air with the latest M3 chip. Apple says the computer, which comes in 13-inch and 15-inch models, is 60 percent faster than the M2 version and 13 times faster than the fastest Intel-based model.
The computer is already available in “Midnight,” “Starlight,” “Silver,” and “Space Gray” colors. Prices for the 13-inch MacBook Air with M3 start at $1,099, and the 15-inch is his $1,299.
