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Anthropic Lands Partial Victory in AI Copyright Case
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What's up: Nvidia's cloud computing move; falling in love with AI.
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Good morning. Large language models are people too.
That could be one takeaway from a recent ruling concerning Anthropic’s use of books to train its artificial-intelligence models.
On Monday Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California ruled that the startup's use of books to train its AI models was legal under U.S. copyright law, but only if it had purchased those books.
“The court treats the AI as akin to a human learning from copyrighted material,” Christina Frohock, professor of legal writing at the University of Miami School of Law, tells Meg Tanaka, a member of this summer's intern class at WSJ.
The ruling could have broad implications for AI and intellectual property, an area that has attracted its share of lawsuits.
But it won't answer everything.
Monday's ruling doesn’t apply to the more than seven million books that Anthropic obtained through “pirated” means. For that, the company will face another trial. Read the story.
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An Nvidia GPU server rack for AI. Photo: Annabelle Chih/Bloomberg News
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DGX Cloud, Nvidia's budding AI cloud service, has yet to make an enormous dent in the market, but it's early days yet, says WSJ Heard on the Street's Asa Fitch. Thanks to Nvidia's power as the sector’s principal arms dealer, legacy cloud companies are helping the chip maker make inroads into their business.
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Under DGX Cloud’s unusual arrangement, the cloud giants buy and manage equipment—including Nvidia’s chips—that forms the backbone of the service. Then Nvidia leases back that equipment from them and rents it out to corporate clients. It also offers access to its AI experts and software as part of the package.
That has left cloud-computing giants in an uncomfortable position. While they make money through the arrangement, they are also being asked to help a service that could compete with them.
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Amazon’s next-generation build is taking shape in Indiana, a massive facility that will consume 2.2 gigawatts of electricity, mostly for the benefit of one customer, AI-startup Anthropic. The New York Times tours the complex, expected to house some 30 data centers, and part of a larger infrastructure effort Amazon calls Project Rainier.
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The U.K. government plans to invest more than $681 million in quantum computing over the next four years, looking to boost leadership in a sector expected to be critical for scientific discovery as well as cybersecurity, FT reports.
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ChatGPT’s success in the consumer space is helping OpenAI gain traction in the enterprise, sometimes at the expense of partner Microsoft which is selling its own AI assistant. Some Microsoft salespeople, “describe being caught flatfooted” by OpenAI's success, according to Bloomberg.
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Alphabet’s Waymo kicked off a new robotaxi service in Atlanta, CNBC reports, with riders calling up rides through the Uber app. The two companies already have a similar setup in Austin, which launched in March.
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