Edition #24
This month, AI pulled up a chair at the table of heads of state: at the G7 in Évian, the bosses of OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind debated with world leaders, yet produced no shared rules. Switzerland is playing its own hand, concentrating 63% of its venture capital in deep tech, while in Geneva the military and industry are still searching for ways to govern defence AI. On the corporate side, the same obsession: own your AI rather than rent it. Kirkland & Ellis is betting 500 million dollars on its own platform, and Microsoft is unveiling in-house models to lean less on OpenAI, even as Washington weighs taking a stake in OpenAI to fund a public wealth fund. Elsewhere, Google wants Gemini everywhere, from Search to Gmail, just as a proposed “compute tax” aims to tax the computing power that runs AI. And to close on a few surprises: Weibo is shaking up the benchmarks with a model 224 times lighter than a rival giant, and a genuine Monet, posted as if it were a generated image, gets accused of being “artificial”.