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    MediaVision Creative enters into collaboration with director/CD Foad Farid

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    Foad Farid
    SOUTH NORWALK, Conn. --

    MediaVision Creative, a South Norwalk-based brand storytelling and digital content studio, has announced a new collaboration with award-winning director/creative director Foad Farid for commercial, marketing communications and branded content creation. Foad will bring proven talents to MediaVision, as well as an impressive portfolio of national and international commercials, branded digital content, music videos, film and documentaries produced for a variety of national brands and media platforms. 

    “For brands today, the ever increasing demand for digital content is a very hungry beast and MediaVision is actively broadening our scope of agency offerings and creative talent to feed it,” stated Wendy Lambert, president of MediaVision. “Foad brings a unique, global perspective and an unbridled passion for developing original concepts and crafting smart, customized narratives for brands and companies.”

    Farid said, “As a filmmaker raised in New York, I’ve been blessed in my career to be able to collaborate with a roster of diverse, creative, seasoned and high caliber artists and clients. I consider myself very lucky to have MediaVision Creative as my new ‘home base,’ where I can continue to do what I always dreamed of doing–tell stories.”

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    Ex-OpenAI engineer who raised legal concerns about the technology he helped build has died

    Saturday, December 21, 2024
    Suchir Balaji poses for a photo in Hawaii in 2018. Balaji was a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who died in November 2024. (Balaji Ramamurthy via AP)

    Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26.

    Balaji worked at OpenAI for nearly four years before quitting in August. He was well-regarded by colleagues at the San Francisco company, where a co-founder this week called him one of OpenAI's strongest contributors who was essential to developing some of its products.

    "We are devastated to learn of this incredibly sad news and our hearts go out to Suchir's loved ones during this difficult time," said a statement from OpenAI.

    Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26 in what police said "appeared to be a suicide. No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation." The city's chief medical examiner's office confirmed the manner of death to be suicide.

    His parents Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy said they are still seeking answers, describing their son as a "happy, smart and brave young man" who loved to hike and recently returned from a trip with friends.

    Balaji grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and first arrived at the fledgling AI research lab for a 2018 summer internship while studying computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He returned a few years later to work at OpenAI, where one of his first projects, called WebGPT, helped pave the way for ChatGPT.

    "Suchir's contributions to this project were essential, and it wouldn't have succeeded without him," said OpenAI co-founder John Schulman in a social media post memorializing Balaji. Schulman, who recruited Balaji to his team, said what... Read More

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