Here are the latest exiting news of AI industry for the week ending on March 3rd, 2024.

Demand for high-end AI servers is driven by four American companies, which will account for 60% of global demand in 2024, according to Trendforce. NVIDIA is projected to continue leading the market, with AMD closing the gap due its lower cost model.

Global server shipments are predicted to increase by 2.05% in 2024, with AI servers accounting for about 12%, reports TrendForce. Also, the smartphone camera lens market is expected to rebound in 2024 with 3.8% growth driven by AI-smartphones, to reach about 4.22 billion units, reports TrendForce.

Following OpenAI’s groundbreaking Sora, which converts text prompts into lifelike videos, Google DeepMind introduces a leap in game development technology with Genie. This innovative model crafts playable video games from mere descriptions, sketches, or photos, mirroring the mechanics and aesthetics of iconic 2D platformers such as Super Mario Bros.

Intel spun out Altera as a standalone FPGA company, the culmination of a rebranding and reorganization of its former Programmable Solutions Group. Altera is addressing AI opportunities with FPGA AI Suite and OpenVINO, which generate optimized intellectual property (IP) based on standard frameworks like TensorFlow and Pytorch.

Micron began mass production of a new high-bandwidth chip for AI. The company said the HBM3E will be a key component in NVIDIA’s H2000 Tensor Core GPUs, set to begin shipping in the second quarter of 2024. HBM is a key component of 2.5D advanced packages.

Tenstorrent, Japan’s Leading-Edge Semiconductor Technology Center (LSTC) , and Rapidus are co-designing AI chips. LSTC will use Tenstorrent’s RISC-V and Chiplet IP for its forthcoming edge 2nm AI accelerator.

NTT, Red Hat, NVIDIA, and Fujitsu teamed up to provide data pipeline acceleration and contain orchestration technologies targeted at real-time AI analysis of massive data sets at the edge.

Renesas expanded its RZ family of MPUs with a single-chip AI accelerator that offers 10 TOPS per watt power efficiency and delivers AI inference performance of up to 80 TOPS without a cooling fan. The chip is aimed at next-gen robotics with vision AI and real-time control.

Infineon launched dual-phase power modules to help data centers meet the power demands of AI GPU platforms. The company also released a family of solid-state isolators to deliver faster switching with up to 70% lower power dissipation.

LG and Meta teamed up to develop extended reality (XR) products, content, services, and platforms within the virtual space.

Microsoft and Mistral AI partnered to accelerate AI innovation and to develop and deploy Mistral’s next-gen large language models (LLMs).

Microsoft’s vice chair and president announced the company’s AI access principles, governing how it will operate AI datacenter infrastructure and other AI assets around the world.

Groq Inc., a well-funded maker of artificial intelligence inference chips, has acquired fellow startup Definitive Intelligence Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The deal will help Groq enhance the capabilities of its newest offering, a cloud platform called GroqCloud that provides on-demand access to its AI chips.

Elon Musk has sued OpenAI, its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, and its affiliated entities, alleging the ChatGPT makers have breached their original contractual agreements by pursuing profits instead of the nonprofit’s founding mission to develop AI that benefits humanity.

The newest Copilot offering from Microsoft is designed to transform modern finance. Copilot for Finance draws on essential context from your existing financial data sources, including traditional Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 and SAP, and the Microsoft Graph.

Microsoft has outlined a new Windows API designed to offer a seamless way for game developers to integrate super resolution AI-upscaling features from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel.

GitHub is bringing the next frontier of developer tools with the general availability of GitHub Copilot Enterprise–a companion that places the institutional knowledge of  organizations at their developers fingertips. Now, team members can ask questions about public and private code, get up to speed quickly with new codebases, build greater consistencies across engineering teams

Microsoft will partner with Mistral AI to access Azure’s cutting-edge AI infrastructure, to accelerate the development and deployment of their next generation large language models (LLMs) and represents an opportunity for Mistral AI to unlock new commercial opportunities, expand to global markets, and foster ongoing research collaboration.

Adobe unveiled Project Music GenAI Control, a platform that can generate audio from text descriptions (e.g. “happy dance,” “sad jazz”) or a reference melody and let users customize the results within the same workflow.

Nvidia‘s CEO, proclaimed   that the era of traditional coding may be over, thanks to AI advancements. He suggested that as AI evolves, especially in natural language processing, the need for learning specific coding languages could diminish. Instead, Huang envisions a future where “everyone is a programmer,” using their native language to interact with computers.

The journey of Apple’s ambitious automotive project, known internally as ‘Project Titan,’ has reached its conclusion. Apple  decided to abandon electric cars and shift resources toward generative AI is a good strategic move. While other tech giants like Microsoft and Meta have made several major AI product announcements over the past year, Apple has been relatively quiet. The decision to shift resources and focus to AI may change that.

OpenAI has accused The New York Times of manipulating its ChatGPT tool to generate a copyright lawsuit.  This legal dispute underscores the tensions between emerging AI technologies and existing copyright laws, challenging the definitions and limits of fair use in the digital age.