OpenAI, founded by tech visionaries such as Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, seeks to protect its state-of-the-art AI technology by applying for a U.S. trademark for the GPT acronym. This is related to the company's natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence services. However, trademark issues, such as those posed by Google's Transformer, could delay its success. IP specialists are positive OpenAI may gain exclusive rights - just like IBM and Rolex before them.
Google has announced an exciting merger of its two Artificial Intelligence (AI) research units, Google Brain and DeepMind. Led by Demis Hassabis, co-founder of DeepMind and a UK government AI advisor, Google DeepMind aims to advance AI research & development, combining resources and talent while maintaining Google's powerful computational resources. Google CEO Sundar Pichai approves of the merger which has been welcomed by the UK government & Chancellor Jeremy Hunt.
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