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This week marked the unveiling of GPT-4, a generative AI large language model that can respond to both text and images and perform better than humans on many standardized tests, including college entrance and bar exams. If pundits are right the technology will become an important enterprise productivity tool, impacting the future of work.

“We think 2023 will be the year that generative AI will become prevalent and a key component of modern office work,” Charles Lamanna, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of business apps and platforms said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal

Both Microsoft and Google made announcements this week aimed at doing exactly that. Read on to learn more about this story and this week's most important technology news impacting business.

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Companies can gain long-term competitive advantage if they successfully employ AI in their operations. However, due to an AI talent shortage and other factors, for many the full potential of the technology remains untapped. Merantix Momentum, a three-year old Berlin-based startup, aims to change this. Its 45 engineers use their expertise in machine learning to develop AI-driven end-to-end solutions to business problems for companies and governments. Customers include Siemens, Volkswagen and Janssen.

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Enel Group has secured an option to become the first investor in nuclear energy startup newcleo's first fourth generation nuclear energy plant.
The option is a result of a cooperation agreement between Enel Group and newcleo to work together on newcleo’s Generation IV nuclear technology projects, which aim to provide a safe and stable power source as well as significantly reduce existing volumes of radioactive waste by using it as reactor fuel.
The first step of newcleo’s delivery roadmap will be the design and construction of the first-of-a-kind Mini 30MWe Lead Fast Reactor to be deployed in France by 2030, rapidly followed by a 200 MWe commercial unit in the UK. At the same time, newcleo will directly invest in a MOX (Mixed uranium / plutonium Oxide manufactured from existing nuclear waste) plant to fuel its reactors.