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Madhumita Murgia

@madhumita29
44 posts
2024-12-11
Scoop 👀 Mustafa Suleyman hires former colleagues from DeepMind's health team to establish a *new* Microsoft AI health unit in London, with a global focus on consumer AI & health. @FT story here - https://www.ft.com/...
2024-12-11 View on X
Financial Times

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is building a London-based team focused on consumer health by poaching staff from a similar Google DeepMind unit he once led

Rival companies are racing to create lucrative applications from cutting-edge technology  —  Microsoft's artificial intelligence …

2024-10-09
Fascinating to see the rapid - and hugely positive - impact that AI has had in the life sciences within a few years. As a former biology/immunology student, this is the area I'm most excited to see AI/tech transform. Huge congrats to David Baker, @demishassabis and John Jumper.
2024-10-09 View on X
Bloomberg

The Nobel in Chemistry goes to David Baker “for computational protein design” and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper “for protein structure prediction”

- Demis Hassabis, John Jumper share half the $1.1 million award  — Remainder goes to David Baker for building new proteins

2024-09-27
NEW: data from Stripe pulled for @FT shows AI native startups are monetising earlier, scaling revenues faster and going global more quickly than their SaaS peers from 2018. Doesn't say anything about in profits, but interesting to see how quickly business models are emerging
2024-09-27 View on X
Financial Times

Stripe data: AI startups took a median 11 months to hit $1M in annualized revenue after their first sales, vs. 15 months for the previous gen of SaaS startups

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times :

2024-04-07
In September, I met @renate, former CEO of Tinder, who was focused on the problem of loneliness in young people, who she felt had been failed by dating apps. Here is the story of her chatbot Meeno, in @FTMag. Can AI help us turn back to one another? https://www.ft.com/...
2024-04-07 View on X
Financial Times

A profile of former Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg and her new startup Meeno, which provides an AI-powered chatbot for relationship advice on iOS and has raised $4.9M

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times : X: @tobywalsh , @katejopling , @ronivey , @andrewyng , @chloeautio , @tfadell , @madhumita29 , and @dannygroner X: Toby Walsh / @tobywalsh : T...

2024-03-17
While it can seem “mildly terrifying” to read about the scope and scale of our society's automation, I hope this is a call for us all to participate in shaping the future we want, living alongside AI.
2024-03-17 View on X
Financial Times

How an Uber Eats worker created UberCheats, a web app that computed the actual distance a courier traveled, after suspecting algorithmic error and underpayment

A tech-savvy Uber Eats worker was sick of the algorithms that controlled his day.  So he decided to fight back X: @mrbrownsir , @hoofnagle , @ftmag , @michaelezra , @madhumita29 , ...

Go pick up an @FTMag today, for an opus by @antoniacundy, and this extract by me, on one man who took on a capricious algorithm
2024-03-17 View on X
Financial Times

How an Uber Eats worker created UberCheats, a web app that computed the actual distance a courier traveled, after suspecting algorithmic error and underpayment

A tech-savvy Uber Eats worker was sick of the algorithms that controlled his day.  So he decided to fight back X: @mrbrownsir , @hoofnagle , @ftmag , @michaelezra , @madhumita29 , ...

2024-02-15
For today's @ft Big Read, we looked at OpenAI's business - how it's growing, who is seeing utility from it and what its future looks like. With @GeorgeNHammond
2024-02-15 View on X
Financial Times

A look at OpenAI's business model, as the company works to more than double its yearly run rate by 2025; ChatGPT Enterprise now has 300+ paying customers

The AI startup is one of the fastest-growing companies in history, but questions remain about the long-term viability of its revenue stream X: @madhumita29 and @jbrowder1 X: Madhum...

2024-01-11
SCOOP 👀 Employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere met with Chinese AI experts in Geneva to find common ground on AI policy and safety
2024-01-11 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: OpenAI, Inflection, and Cohere held back-channel talks on AI policy and safety with Chinese state-backed groups in Geneva in July 2023 and October 2023

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times : X: @madhumita29 X: Madhumita Murgia / @madhumita29 : SCOOP 👀 Employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere met with Chinese AI experts in Geneva to f...

2023-07-24
Huge thanks to @kyosu, @ashVaswani, @nikiparmar09, @aidangomezzz, @ilblackdragon, Noam Shazeer and Llion Jones for all their time spent explaining - and for sharing their stories.
2023-07-24 View on X
Financial Times

Profiles of eight former Google research scientists who co-authored the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is All You Need” that paved the way for the rise of LLMs

The story of the Transformer and its inventors was the first one I began to report when I took on my role as AI editor earlier this year - it helps encapsulate the current moment we are in with generative AI, and where we are going. 👉https://www.ft.com/...
2023-07-24 View on X
Financial Times

Profiles of eight former Google research scientists who co-authored the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is All You Need” that paved the way for the rise of LLMs

And finally, the truly global team that came together to make the Transformer work is a testament to the power of diversity of ideas/experience in order to truly innovate.
2023-07-24 View on X
Financial Times

Profiles of eight former Google research scientists who co-authored the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is All You Need” that paved the way for the rise of LLMs

The parallel story of why every single one of them left Google and the startups they've founded is key to understanding the commercial implications of the LLM boom
2023-07-24 View on X
Financial Times

Profiles of eight former Google research scientists who co-authored the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is All You Need” that paved the way for the rise of LLMs

2023-07-23
The story of the Transformer and its inventors was the first one I began to report when I took on my role as AI editor earlier this year - it helps encapsulate the current moment we are in with generative AI, and where we are going. 👉https://www.ft.com/...
2023-07-23 View on X
Financial Times

Profiles of eight former Google research scientists who co-authored the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is All You Need” that paved the way for the rise of LLMs

Their paper paved the way for the rise of large language models.  But all have since left the Silicon Valley giant Twitter: @jmateosgarcia , @gavinsbaker , @jmateosgarcia , @madhum...

Huge thanks to @kyosu, @ashVaswani, @nikiparmar09, @aidangomezzz, @ilblackdragon, Noam Shazeer and Llion Jones for all their time spent explaining - and for sharing their stories.
2023-07-23 View on X
Financial Times

Profiles of eight former Google research scientists who co-authored the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is All You Need” that paved the way for the rise of LLMs

Their paper paved the way for the rise of large language models.  But all have since left the Silicon Valley giant Twitter: @jmateosgarcia , @gavinsbaker , @jmateosgarcia , @madhum...

The parallel story of why every single one of them left Google and the startups they've founded is key to understanding the commercial implications of the LLM boom
2023-07-23 View on X
Financial Times

Profiles of eight former Google research scientists who co-authored the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is All You Need” that paved the way for the rise of LLMs

Their paper paved the way for the rise of large language models.  But all have since left the Silicon Valley giant Twitter: @jmateosgarcia , @gavinsbaker , @jmateosgarcia , @madhum...

And finally, the truly global team that came together to make the Transformer work is a testament to the power of diversity of ideas/experience in order to truly innovate.
2023-07-23 View on X
Financial Times

Profiles of eight former Google research scientists who co-authored the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is All You Need” that paved the way for the rise of LLMs

Their paper paved the way for the rise of large language models.  But all have since left the Silicon Valley giant Twitter: @jmateosgarcia , @gavinsbaker , @jmateosgarcia , @madhum...

2023-06-16
News publishers are up in arms about their content being used to train AI that could cut them out - forcing tech cos to the negotiating table. Our story, brought to you from London, NY & Berlin @CristinaCriddle @DanielThomasLDN @annaknicolaou @laurapitel https://www.ft.com/...
2023-06-16 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Adobe have met News Corp, the NYT, and others to discuss copyright issues over LLMs and a possible subscription fee

Financial Times :

2023-04-15
Soon after GPT-4 came out I spoke to @paul_rottger for a story, who sparked the idea to speak to as many “red-teamers” as possible. Here's the fruit of that reporting which hopefully gives some insight into the inner workings of this complex technology - and how it could go wrong https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-15 View on X
Financial Times

A look at OpenAI's “red team” of 50 academics and experts, hired in 2022 to look for issues such as toxicity, prejudice, and biases in GPT-4 before its release

Microsoft-backed company asked an eclectic mix of people to ‘adversarially test’ GPT-4, its powerful new language model

2023-04-03
We pitted two chatbots ChatGPT-4 and Bard against one another on tasks that humans would need creative thinking for. Here's how they did, and what the FT's experts thought of it - https://www.ft.com/...
2023-04-03 View on X
Financial Times

Comparing OpenAI's ChatGPT, for in-depth replies, and Google's Bard, for natural dialog, on summarizing an article, telling a joke, picking stocks, and more

Financial Times : Tweets: @madhumita29 and @muradahmed Tweets: Madhumita Murgia / @madhumita29 : We pitted two chatbots ChatGPT-4 and Bard against one another on tasks that humans...

2023-03-23
Fundamental AI research is now primarily the purview of large tech companies - a trend that's becoming more relevant as money & attention are showered on large language models. My piece, with insights from @NurAhmedB & @mer__edith's brilliant 2021 paper https://www.ft.com/...
2023-03-23 View on X
Financial Times

Researchers warn of “industrial capture” in AI as companies dominate the sector; 96% of the biggest AI models belonged to companies in 2021, up from 11% in 2010

and will ultimately shape its impact on our collective future” https://www.ft.com/... Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis : “Private AI companies have quietly entrenched their pow...