Welcome to Eye on AI! In this edition...Scale AI cuts 14% of workforce after Meta investment, hiring of founder Wang...OpenAI to take cut of ChatGPT shopping sales in hunt for revenues...Former top Google researchers have built a new kind of AI agent—and they think it could be a step toward superintelligence.
I am reporting Eye on AI this week from Vancouver, where I’ve been hanging out with thousands of PhD-level AI researchers at the International Conference for Machine Learning (ICML), one of the top annual gatherings for AI talent from elite universities, Big Tech labs, and AI startups.