Thinking Machine Labs and more: Is the next AI breakthrough imminent?

The world of artificial intelligence (AI) has produced its own superstars in recent years. People like Ilya Sutskever and Mira Murati are considered real experts who have contributed significantly to the success of OpenAI and thus also of ChatGPT. They have now become independent and are pursuing their own goals with new start-ups. What we could expect in the future.

Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and former chief scientist of OpenAI, founded Safe Superintelligence (SSI) in June 2024. The company aims to develop particularly intelligent AI systems that support people in their endeavors while always remaining safe and controllable. The company has already received more than a billion US dollars from investors, which shows confidence in Sutskever's vision, although SSI does not yet have a finished product.

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Mira Murati, the former technical director of OpenAI, is in a similar situation. She has also founded her own company: Thinking Machines Lab (TML). Here, several former OpenAI employees are to develop AI systems that are accessible to more people and easier to work with. One possibility would be a kind of meta-AI that combines the capabilities of different systems. Murati's start-up promises transparency: the team wants to regularly publish research papers and programs so that others can benefit from the findings.

In addition to Safe Superintelligence and Thinking Machines Lab, there are many other companies that will play a key role in shaping the future of AI in the coming months. The most notable example from the recent past is DeepSeek from China, which specializes in the development of advanced language models. The company has managed to achieve more with less computing power and effortlessly competes with established language models such as ChatGPT or Claude. In addition, there are now established giants such as Elon Musk's (53) Grok, Mark Zuckerberg's (40) LLaMA or Google's Gemini.

Ultimately, all of these companies are currently pursuing a similar goal: to create a personal assistance system that will become indispensable for its users. Samsung, for example, demonstrated how far it is heading in this direction when presenting its latest smartphones. In one example video, a woman tells her smartphone to postpone a certain appointment and inform the person concerned - and the AI ​​installed on the device then takes care of it. Because such functions are integrated at the operating system level, this will be possible on more and more Android devices in the future.

Apple is moving in a similar direction with "Apple Intelligence" and is pursuing the long-term goal of providing its users with a digital assistant at the iOS level that makes the installation of competing products unnecessary. Who will cooperate with whom in the coming months and years and which product will ultimately prevail across the board is currently as open as the future itself.

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