AI NewsWaveOct. 11 AI Briefing: Nvidia's Reflection AI Talks and Nadella's AI Emergency Brake
Key points
- Nvidia in talks to invest in open-weight AI startup Reflection AI
- Nadella's emergency brake remark and the debate over controlling AI
- Ministry of SMEs and Startups tax support and POSCO DX investment
Nvidia is in talks about additional investment in, or an acquisition of, Reflection AI, a U.S. open-source AI startup, the Financial Times reported on Oct. 10 (local time). The talks are at an early stage. According to Chosun Biz, instead of buying the whole company, hiring key researchers and securing technology usage rights are also on the table. IT Chosun analyzed the move as an effort to support U.S.-made models while Chinese companies expand their market with cheap open-weight models.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argued that high-performance AI systems need an emergency brake that lets people stop them at any time, along with independent controls. He also urged that systems be designed on the assumption that they could be breached. Meanwhile, AI Times reported a survey finding that only 1.1% of Chinese AI developers disclose safety test results before release, and just 3.6% even when later disclosures are counted.
The Chinese AI penetration-testing tool Artex, named as a tool used in hacks on South Korean financial institutions, will end its public development. According to IT Chosun, the developer acknowledged the tool was misused and will take its source code private. Kukmin Ilbo reported that recalling the program that has already been distributed is practically difficult, so the security threat remains.
The Ministry of SMEs and Startups and the National Tax Service will link policy support and tax support to help 2,559 AI small and midsize companies and startups grow. According to VentureSquare, AI startups less than five years old will be excluded from regular tax audit selection, and other AI small and midsize companies can receive a tax audit deferral of up to three years on application.
POSCO DX invested 2 billion won in the AI startup Enhance and signed a business agreement to build an AI agent specialized in executing work tasks. According to TechM, Enhance is a startup that developed AgentOS, an ontology-based enterprise AI operating system.
Counterpoint Research projected that DRAM demand for humanoid robots will grow to 20 times this year's level by 2030. According to IT Chosun, this is because robot shipments are expected to rise and the DRAM capacity in each robot is expected to more than double. Chosun Biz reported that robots will become a new growth engine for Samsung Electronics and SK hynix after HBM.
According to AI Times, Arena, a platform that evaluates AI models based on user ratings, raised 270 billion won in funding at a valuation of 4 trillion won. Arena is reportedly expanding into alignment indexes that measure AI safety and reliability.
According to an exclusive from Kukmin Ilbo, the courts had not spent a single won of the 10.8 billion won budget secured this year for an AI project through September. The project would use more than 7.24 million litigation records, including rulings and complaints, for AI training and search, but no separate personal data impact assessment was done, raising concerns that privacy protections are inadequate.
Citing The New York Times, AI Times reported that Meta rushed out its AI agent Muse, which it had delayed for months over safety concerns, under competitive pressure. The startup Instinct was named as a factor behind the decision.