Prof. Amnon Shashua has based a synthetic common intelligence (AGI) startup, which continues to be in stealth. AGI develops the flexibility to exceed human capabilities in performing complicated duties in a short while, reminiscent of creating medicines or inventing a brand new supply of vitality. The startup known as AA-I Applied sciences was based final yr in Jerusalem and sources consider the corporate has already raised a number of tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} for the acquisition of kit and graphic processors.
AA-I Applied sciences was revealed this week when Amazon Net Companies (AWS) listed the 80 startups which have been accepted to its 2024 Generative AI accelerator program. The accelerator supplies the startups with direct entry to its servers together with speedy AI processors, and grants its startup $1 million, and on the finish of this system the startups should current their product at an occasion to be held in December in Las Vegas, earlier than an viewers of senior executives from the world of expertise and finance.
AWS didn’t element that it was Shashua’s firm, and solely acknowledged that AA-I is a Jerusalem firm that “develops an AI system that’s able to fixing CS, math, and science issues on the highest degree of human experience.”
“The corporate continues to be in stealth”
In response to data on the registry of firms, AA-I used to be based in August 2023 by Shashua and his accomplice at Mentee Robotics Shai Shalev-Shwartz and several other promising scientists that had been Shashua’s college students within the Division of Laptop Science on the Hebrew College, together with Dr. Yoav Levin, Dr. Or Sharir (previously scientists at Shashua’s generative AI firm AI21 Labs), and Dr. Noam Weiss, an algorithmic skilled recruited from Orcam, one other firm in Shashua’s portfolio.
The corporate declined to answer “Globes” questions though earlier this month Shashua informed the Goldfarb Gross Seligman and PwC Israel Up & Coming convention that he had lately based a startup however didn’t point out its identify. He mentioned, “10 months in the past I based an AI firm, and it’s nonetheless in stealth.”
Shashua was requested why investing billions of {dollars} in firms within the area is a worthwhile enterprise, and hinted concerning the AGI revolution. He mentioned, “Not like the technological waves previously, on this wave there are indicators that someplace simply across the nook a broad intelligence will develop right here, and the intention is that these programs will be capable to imitate human intelligence in fixing issues.”
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In an interview with Globes in August 2023, near the founding of the AA-I Applied sciences and after he had accomplished one other financing spherical for AI21 Labs, Shashua supplied a glimpse at the place he was aiming: He mentioned, “Can AI imitate the qualities of an incredible mathematician or physicist? Can it invent the idea of relativity or develop the differential calculus as a device to develop legal guidelines like these of Newton? It’s a matter of abstraction that sensible folks know methods to do and language fashions haven’t been skilled for this. That is the following stage of AI.”
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