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AI apocalypse? ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity all went down at the same time
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AI apocalypse? ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity all went down at the same time
Wednesday - June 4 - 2024
After a multi-hour outage that took place in the early hours of the morning, OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot went down again — but this time, it wasn’t the only AI provider affected.
On Tuesday morning, both Anthropic’s Claude and Perplexity began seeing issues, too, but these were more quickly resolved.
Google’s Gemini appears to be operating at present, though it may have also briefly gone offline, according to some user reports.
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI chatbot, has revolutionized productivity, evolving from a tool for writing essays and code to a powerhouse used by over 92% of Fortune 500 companies.
OpenAI's rapid growth has made it a highly-hyped company, despite CEO Sam Altman’s brief firing raising concerns and spurring competition.
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After a multi-hour outage that took place in the early hours of the morning, OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot went down again — but this time, it wasn’t the only AI provider affected.
On Tuesday morning, both Anthropic’s Claude and Perplexity began seeing issues, too, but these were more quickly resolved.
Google’s Gemini appears to be operating at present, though it may have also briefly gone offline, according to some user reports.
It’s unusual for three major AI providers to all be down at the same time, which could signal a broader infrastructure issue or internet-scale problem, such as those that affect multiple social media sites simultaneously, for example.
It’s also possible that Claude and Perplexity’s issues were not due to bugs or other issues, but from receiving too much traffic in a short period of time due to ChatGPT’s outage.
On ChatGPT’s landing page, the ability to message the AI chatbot was not working during its outage. The issue began around 7:33 AM PT and resolved around 10:17 AM PT — another multi-hour outage.
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI chatbot, has revolutionized productivity, evolving from a tool for writing essays and code to a powerhouse used by over 92% of Fortune 500 companies.
OpenAI's rapid growth has made it a highly-hyped company, despite CEO Sam Altman’s brief firing raising concerns and spurring competition.
Competitors like Meta and other AI startups might gain from this turmoil.
Despite some controversial uses, AI tools are here to stay.
Since its launch nearly a year ago, ChatGPT has reached 100 million weekly users, with OpenAI investing heavily.
OpenAI's first developer conference, OpenAI DevDay, unveiled updates like GPT-4 Turbo and a multimodal API.
They also launched the GPT store for custom GPT creations in January.
GPT-4, known for its natural fluency, is mostly for paying ChatGPT users but is accessible for free via Microsoft’s Bing Chat.
OpenAI also connected ChatGPT to the internet for all users and integrated DALL-E 3, allowing text and image generation within ChatGPT.
The latest Raspberry Pi, a favorite among tech hobbyists and industrial companies, now doubles as an AI computer with the $70 AI Kit.
This extension includes a neural network inference accelerator for local inferencing on the Raspberry Pi 5, using the HAT+ extension card.
The HAT+ card, featuring an M.2 slot connected via a single-lane PCIe 3.0 interface at 8Gbps, hosts the Hailo-8L module from AI chip startup Hailo.
This enables the Raspberry Pi 5 to perform 13 tera-operations per second (TOPS).
Raspberry Pi OS automatically detects the Hailo module, allowing immediate use for applications, including updated camera apps for neural network inferencing.
This supports tasks like object detection, semantic and instance segmentation, pose estimation, and facial landmarking.
The AI Kit offers extensive possibilities for the Raspberry Pi community to innovate with AI, beyond just camera applications.
Sword Health, an AI-powered virtual physical therapy startup, raised $30 million and allowed employees to sell $100 million in equity to new and existing investors, including Khosla Ventures.
This round boosted the nine-year-old company’s valuation to $3 billion, a 50% increase from its $2 billion valuation in November 2021.
Initially planning a $100 million secondary round, CEO Virgílio Bento expanded it to include a $30 million primary round due to high demand, updating the company’s valuation.
Sword Health, forecasted to be profitable by year-end, didn't need the capital but saw the valuation update as a positive signal in tough fundraising conditions.
The primary round brings Sword’s total funding to $340 million.
Investors include Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, BOND, and Founders Fund.
Competing with Hinge Health, valued at $6.2 billion, Sword aims for an IPO potentially in 2025, while enhancing its AI with a human-like voice for its genAI, Phoenix, used in therapy interactions.
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