AI News, 8 October: AI-made maths from OpenAI, nuclear power for Google and a Nordic AI meeting
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1. OpenAI publishes more than 700 AI-generated maths results
On 6 October OpenAI released a large collection of new mathematical results produced by an internal model the company has not yet launched. The collection is openly available on GitHub and covers more than 700 manuscripts across 372 families of results, after the model was set to work on around 4,000 problems. Each result took about three hours of “thinking time” on average, measured in ChatGPT Pro usage, according to the company. Only some of the proofs have so far been formalised in the proof assistant Lean, and OpenAI acknowledges that results without that kind of machine checking may contain errors. The company says it consulted an independent advisory group at the Institute for Advanced Study on how the results should be published.
Source: OpenAI
2. Nous Research raises $90 million for its open AI agent
TechCrunch reported on 7 October that the AI company Nous Research has raised $90 million in a Series B round that values the company at $1.5 billion. The round is led by Robot Ventures, and the other investors include Nvidia, Union Square Ventures, Menlo Ventures and Samsung. The company is behind Hermes Agent, an open-source AI agent that it says has been cloned more than 24 million times. Nous is also launching “Hermes for Businesses”, which lets companies deploy customised agents for multi-step tasks while keeping control of their own data. In total the company has now raised $158 million.
Source: TechCrunch
3. Google and Constellation agree 890 megawatts of new nuclear power
Google and the power company Constellation announced a deal on 6 October that will bring 890 megawatts of new nuclear capacity to the US PJM grid. The capacity comes from upgrades to eleven existing reactors in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, financed through a 20-year power purchase agreement, with the first upgrade expected to be delivered by 2028. The two have also signed a 15-year agreement for the supply of 2,700 megawatts from Constellation's existing plants. Constellation puts its own new investment at more than $4.3 billion. The companies point to growth in AI and digital infrastructure driving up demand for electricity.
4. Støre and Stubb discuss the follow-up to their AI appeal
Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre met Finland's President Alexander Stubb on 8 October for a working meeting at the Office of the Prime Minister. The main topic was how the two will follow up the international appeal for better control over the development of the most advanced AI models. Støre and Stubb launched the appeal during the high-level week of the UN General Assembly, and more than 30 leaders from around the world have joined so far. Støre says governments should set clear expectations for technology companies and develop shared political standards. The two also discussed the war in Ukraine and European security.
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