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Nobel Prize in Physics Winners Announced
Professor Ellen Moons, Secretary General at the Swedish Academy of Sciences Hans Ellegren, and Professor Anders Irback announce that John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton are the winners of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Physics in Stockholm, Sweden, on Oct. 8, 2024.
Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Oct. 8. They were recognized as pioneers of artificial neural networks, a machine learning technique that has revolutionized artificial intelligence. Neural networks enable computers to learn by imitating human brain functions. The Nobel committee praised their work, stating that humanity now has a powerful tool that can be utilized for positive purposes.
OpenAI recently raised $6.6 billion in a funding round, making it the second-most valuable private company globally, with a worth of $157 billion. This places OpenAI behind ByteDance ($220 billion) and ahead of China’s Ant Group ($150 billion) and SpaceX ($125 billion).
Google is enhancing its Gemini AI services in India to accommodate voice interactions in nine Indian languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, and Urdu, due to 40% of users preferring voice-based chatbot interactions.
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