When unveiled in 2022, Optimus could make basic movements, but last year Musk revealed that Optimus had built-in sensors allowing it to work faster and it could also pick up/put down fragile objects, with no breakages.

Musk’s goal is to build an “autonomous humanoid robot capable of performing unsafe, repetitive or boring tasks,” and has told investors he’ll have a “robot able to navigate reality and do tasks, ad hoc,” by next year.

There are doubts over whether this will actually happen, as Musk is known for underestimating timeframes, eg. he said he’d have autonomous “robotaxis” on the streets by 2020, but we’re still waiting for the big reveal.

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NVIDIA is making this new chip—called B20—to comply with tighter US export controls and circumnavigate tougher restrictions designed to prevent advanced chip equipment from reaching China.

They will work with their local Chinese distribution partner—Inspur—to produce, launch, and distribute the B20 AI chip, which is expected to be ready for shipping in the second quarter of 2025.

This comes after a price cut and a consequential surge in sales for the H20 chip in China (despite tougher US trade restrictions), highlighting NVIDIA’s effort to keep market share amidst competition from home-grown Huawei.

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Cohere—an AI startup that builds custom AI models and was co-founded by ex-Google researchers—has raised $500M from investors including Cisco, AMD, and Fujitsu, with contributions from Salesforce and NVIDIA.

The latest round values the company at $5.5B—double last year's valuation—and funding will be used for “accelerated growth” within the Enterprise sector, building bespoke AI chatbots, capable of performing specialized tasks.

Cohere’s annual revenue is $35M (previously $13M), it counts companies like Oracle and Notion as customers and has a partnership with Google Cloud, which provides the infrastructure to train and run its models.

Google researchers have built a new AI platform—called VLOGGER—which can generate a realistic video of someone talking, moving, and gesturing, from a single, still photograph.

The tool can automatically add different languages to videos, edit footage, and produce full-length videos from one image, with researchers saying that it outperforms similar tools in image quality and realism.

VLOGGER leverages different ML techniques that create images from text descriptions, but concerns have been raised around its potential misuse, as it will make it even easier for users to create deepfakes.