We recently published a list of 10 AI News Updates You Can’t Miss This Weekend. In this article, we are going to take a look at where DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:DOCN) stands against other AI news updates you can’t miss this weekend.
The race to get ahead in artificial intelligence is compelling companies to intensify their efforts each day. In latest news, ChatGPT creator OpenAI has been considering developing its own web browser, according to a report by The Information. The report reveals that the company has spoken about the product with websites such as Redfin, Conde Nast, Priceline, and Eventbrite. Having already entered the market with SearchGPT, the move would be placing OpenAI head-to-head with Google, the company that holds the major share of the browser and search market.
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However, the company isn’t just delving into search and browsers. According to Tech Crunch, OpenAI is also researching algorithms that can predict human being’s moral judgments. OpenAI gave a grant to Duke University researchers for a project called “Research AI Morality.” When asked for more details, an OpenAI spokesperson referred to a press release stating that the grant is part of a larger $1 million, three-year funding effort for Duke Professors working on creating “moral AI.”
As per the press release, the OpenAI-funded project aims to develop algorithms capable of “predicting human moral judgments” when moral conflicts arise in fields like medicine, law, and business. However, it isn’t clear yet whether such kind of an achievement is possible with the current levels of technology.
In other news, AI firm Anthropic is getting another funding boost. Amazon is increasing its investment in Anthropic to $8 billion, strengthening its partnership in artificial intelligence, the companies announced Friday, the 22nd.
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DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:DOCN)
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DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:DOCN) is a public cloud provider that can support AI workloads.
On November 21, DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:DOCN) announced the launch of DigitalOcean Bare Metal GPUs. The DigitalOcean Bare Metal GPUs are a single-tenant infrastructure designed for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) workloads. Unlike shared GPU droplets, the Bare Metal GPUs are fully dedicated, offering customers full access to the entire GPU. This aspect makes them the ideal fit for customers who need direct control over their hardware and is designed for projects like large-scale model training, real-time inference, or complex orchestration.
“Our new GPU Droplets provide customers with simple scalability and quick provisioning, but we recognize that this isn’t what all of our customers require, leading to the introduction of our Bare Metal GPUs. Bare Metal GPUs give our customers the performance and control that they require to tackle large datasets with ease.”
-Bratin Saha, Chief Product & Technology Officer at DigitalOcean.
Overall, DOCN ranks 7th on our list of AI news updates you can’t miss this weekend. While we acknowledge the potential of DOCN as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than DOCN but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.
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