TODAY IN AI
Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google and Alphabet / Source: Information Age
1. Google pushes AI privacy frontier as Gemini tops App Store: VaultGemma is Google’s latest 1B-parameter AI model, trained from the ground up to protect privacy. The search giant claims VaultGemma shows no detectable memorization of user data, potentially making it ideal for sensitive industries like healthcare and finance. Meanwhile, the Gemini app is flexing its muscle on the consumer side, shooting to the top of the US App Store and surpassing ChatGPT as the most downloaded iOS app.
2. OpenAI plans to cut Microsoft revenue share: The ChatGPT maker is reportedly planning to share just 8% of its revenue with commercial partners like Microsoft by the end of the decade, down from the current 20%. That difference could add up to $50B more in revenue for OpenAI. The companies are also negotiating how much OpenAI will pay to rent Microsoft’s servers and the massive cloud infrastructure it relies on to train and run AI models.
3. Publishers sue Google over AI-generated content: Penske Media, which owns Rolling Stone, Billboard, and Variety, has filed a lawsuit against the search giant over its AI-generated summaries in search results. The publisher claims that the summaries are diverting clicks and hurting ad and subscription revenue. Google says traffic is “relatively stable” and AI Overviews help users discover content. Some studies claim click-through rates drop sharply when summaries appear.