News/New Launches
Meta’s Llama 3.1 Launch Ignites AI Arms Race, Challenging OpenAI’s Dominance
Llama 3.1 launch signals Meta's bold challenge to OpenAI's dominance in the AI market: Meta's release of its most advanced AI model to date, Llama 3.1, and its integration into the company's AI assistant, Meta AI, across multiple platforms, marks a significant escalation in the AI competition, directly targeting OpenAI's market-leading position. Open-source strategy disrupts the AI landscape: Meta's decision to make the powerful Llama 3.1 405B model openly available contrasts with the proprietary approaches of its competitors, particularly OpenAI, potentially reshaping the future of AI accessibility and development: The open-source release comes at a critical juncture for Meta, following...
read Jul 24, 2024DeepL Now Offers Traditional Chinese Language Translation, Spoken Language Next
German AI translation startup DeepL launched traditional Chinese, expanding its presence in key Asian business hubs like Taiwan and Hong Kong as it looks to grow globally and compete with major tech players. Key details of DeepL's Asia expansion: DeepL, a $2 billion European AI translation company focused on business customers, is making a strategic push into Asia with the launch of traditional Chinese: Traditional Chinese is used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, which are important tech and finance hubs that attracted DeepL due to the strong business potential. DeepL already offers Japanese and Korean, and sees similarities between the...
read Jul 23, 2024LexisNexis Launches Research Tool Nexis+AI to Unlock Insights from Licensed Data
LexisNexis launches Nexis+ AI, using generative AI to enhance corporate research capabilities by leveraging its vast library of licensed news and corporate data. Key features and benefits: Nexis+ AI aims to accelerate data-intensive research and strategic decision-making for businesses: The platform allows users to quickly search and analyze business, financial, and legal information, summarize lengthy documents, compile and share content, create first drafts of intelligence reports, discover relevant data points, and deliver actionable business insights. It employs a multi-model approach, using AWS Bedrock, Anthropic's Claude models, and Microsoft's Azure OpenAI models to power its AI capabilities. Results include citations and...
read Jul 23, 2024Meta Just Released the Biggest and Best Open-Source Model Ever
Meta's release of the largest-ever open-source AI model, Llama 3.1, outperforms rival models like GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on several benchmarks, marking a significant milestone for the AI industry: The 405-billion parameter model was developed at an estimated cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, utilizing over 16,000 of Nvidia's H100 GPUs. Meta is working with more than two dozen major tech companies to help developers deploy their own versions of Llama 3.1, which is claimed to be more cost-effective than proprietary models. The release includes model weights for companies to train and tune Llama 3.1 on custom data,...
read Jul 23, 2024Adobe Just Incorporated More GenAI Features into Illustrator and Photoshop
Adobe introduces new generative AI features to Illustrator and Photoshop, aiming to streamline creative workflows and empower professionals. Key updates in Illustrator: Adobe's latest Firefly Vector AI model powers several new features in Illustrator, now available in public beta: Generative Shape Fill allows users to add detailed, AI-generated vectors to shapes using text prompts. The Text to Pattern beta feature has been improved, enabling the creation of scalable, customized vector patterns for various applications like wallpapers. Style Reference generates outputs that mimic existing styles, helping designers maintain consistency. Additional Illustrator enhancements: Beyond generative AI, this update brings other tools to...
read Jul 22, 2024Sakana’s Latest AI Models Are Recreating Historic Japanese Ukiyo-e Art
The AI startup Sakana AI has released two new image generation models focused on recreating Japan's historic ukiyo-e art style, aiming to spread appreciation for Japanese culture and find applications in education and literature. Bringing ukiyo-e art to the modern era with AI: Sakana AI's new models, Evo-Ukiyoe and Evo-Nishikie, generate images closely resembling the Japanese ukiyo-e art style that flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries: Evo-Ukiyoe is a text-to-image model that generates ukiyo-e style images based on text prompts, even allowing for the inclusion of modern elements like hamburgers or laptops, though results may sometimes deviate from the...
read Jul 22, 2024Luma AI’s Latest Feature Allows Creation of Continuous Loops from Text and Image Prompts
Luma AI's Dream Machine introduces "Loops" for seamless AI-generated videos, potentially transforming digital marketing and creative content production. Key innovation: Endless video sequences without visible cuts or transitions; Luma AI's new "Loops" feature in its Dream Machine platform allows users to create continuous video loops from text descriptions, images, or keyframes, expanding options for engaging audiences while potentially reducing production time and costs. Examples showcased by Luma AI include a spaceship flying through a hyperspace portal and a capybara riding a bicycle in a park, demonstrating the feature's potential. Until now, AI-generated videos often looked choppy or disjointed when played...
read Jul 22, 2024Claude AI Just Launched on Android — Here are 5 Things to Try with it Right Now
Anthropic brings its powerful Claude AI chatbot to Android: The AI company Anthropic has launched an Android version of Claude, which features the capabilities of the impressive Claude 3.5 Sonnet model including AI vision and shared conversations across web, iOS, and Android platforms. 5 prompts to get started with Claude on Android: Travel Translator: Upload a photo of a foreign language menu or sign and have Claude translate it, focusing on specific dietary preferences or popular local dishes. Story Generator: Ask Claude to write an engaging short story in a specific genre with certain plot elements. Language Learning Game: Have...
read Jul 22, 2024xAI Powers Up Massive Memphis Supercomputer, Sparking Local Excitement and Environmental Concerns
Elon Musk's xAI startup has powered up a massive supercomputing facility in Memphis, Tennessee to train its next AI model, Grok, with over 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, sparking both excitement and concerns among locals. Key details about xAI's Memphis supercomputing cluster: The facility, dubbed the "Gigafactory of Compute," is now operational and began training models at 4:20am local time on Monday morning, according to Musk. It leverages 100,000 liquid-cooled Nvidia H100 GPUs on a single RDMA fabric, which Musk touts as "the most powerful AI training cluster in the world." The H100 GPUs are designed specifically for training large AI...
read Jul 22, 2024Google Gemini Gets More Human-Like Female Voice
Google Gemini rolls out first new voice for Android users: Google has started rolling out a new, more natural-sounding female voice for its AI assistant, Google Gemini, on Android phones, though the option is not yet available on iOS or the web client. Key details of the new voice: The new voice is noticeably more natural-sounding compared to the slightly robotic original Gemini voice. Currently, there is no way to switch back to the original voice in the settings after the new voice is activated. The rollout appears to be in a testing phase, as the new voice option is...
read Jul 21, 2024DeepL’s Next-Gen Language Translation AI Outperforms ChatGPT and Google Translate
DeepL's next-gen language model outperforms competitors like Google Translate, ChatGPT-4, and Microsoft in translation quality, requiring fewer edits and improving productivity for businesses. Groundbreaking technology: DeepL's new language model combines world-class AI with proprietary linguistic data and the expertise of thousands of language specialists to provide best-in-class translations: In blind tests, language experts prefer DeepL's translations 1.3x more often than Google Translate, 1.7x more than ChatGPT-4, and 2.3x more than Microsoft. Specialized LLMs tuned for language reduce the risk of hallucinations and misinformation compared to general-purpose models trained on public internet data. Highest quality translations: Starting with Japanese, German, and...
read Jul 21, 2024Mistral’s New Finetuned Open Source LLM Excels in Math and Reasoning
Mistral AI has released Mathstral, a finetuned 7B model designed for math reasoning and scientific discovery, offering a 32k context window and openly available model weights. The model's release comes amidst questions about leading LLMs' ability to solve complex math problems while lacking understanding of elementary school math concepts. Mathstral demonstrates the trend of finetuned open source models outperforming larger closed source models in specialized areas. Testing Mathstral's Common Sense: Running Mathstral locally using LlamaEdge (Rust + Wasm stack) allows for testing its ability to answer common sense math questions. The model successfully answers a question comparing the values of...
read Jul 20, 2024Apple’s New Open-Source Language Models Demonstrate the Power of High-Quality Data
Apple's new open-source language models showcase the company's AI prowess, with the 7B model outperforming leading open models and the 1.4B version surpassing competitors in its category. Introducing DCLM models: Apple's research team, as part of the DataComp for Language Models project, released a family of open DCLM models on Hugging Face, including a 7 billion parameter model and a 1.4 billion parameter model: The models were trained using a high-quality dataset, DCLM-Baseline, assembled through model-based filtering, demonstrating the effectiveness of this data curation technique. The project is truly open-source, with the release of model weights, training code, and the...
read Jul 20, 2024Google’s ‘Ask Photos’ AI Feature Sparks Excitement and Privacy Concerns
Google's new 'Ask Photos' feature will use Gemini AI to search through user photo libraries and answer questions about the images, sparking both excitement and concerns about privacy. Key details of the 'Ask Photos' feature: Google previewed the AI-powered tool at Google I/O 2024, and initial testing has now begun with a select group of users: Ask Photos uses natural language processing to search a user's photo library without requiring prior organization or tagging of the images. The AI can parse visual information from photos and answer specific questions posed by the user, such as retrieving a license plate number...
read Jul 19, 2024Google Teases AI-Powered Pixel 9 Pro, Confirming Leaks and Embracing Gemini Era
Google embraces leaks by officially teasing the Pixel 9 Pro, highlighting its AI capabilities powered by the Gemini model. Key details from the official teaser: Google has released a video on X (formerly Twitter) showcasing the upcoming Pixel 9 Pro, confirming earlier leaks and highlighting the phone's AI features: The teaser video emphasizes the phone being "built for the Gemini era," referring to Google's powerful AI model that surpasses GPT-4. It playfully suggests that the AI can even help users "let your old phone down easy" by generating a breakup letter, hinting at the phone's advanced AI capabilities. The video...
read Jul 19, 2024Mistral AI and NVIDIA Unveil Cutting-Edge Enterprise AI Model
Mistral AI and NVIDIA have unveiled a cutting-edge enterprise AI model, Mistral NeMo 12B, that offers unprecedented accuracy, flexibility, and efficiency for diverse applications like chatbots, multilingual tasks, coding, and summarization. Key features and capabilities: Mistral NeMo 12B excels in multi-turn conversations, math, common sense reasoning, world knowledge, and coding, delivering precise and reliable performance across various tasks: With a 128K context length, the model can process extensive and complex information more coherently and accurately, ensuring contextually relevant outputs. The model uses the FP8 data format for inference, reducing memory size and speeding up deployment without sacrificing accuracy. Mistral NeMo...
read Jul 18, 2024AWS Unveils AI Innovations, Security Focus, and Low-Code App Builder at NYC Summit
Amazon Web Services showcased new AI tools and focused on data security at its recent AWS Summit in New York, while the introduction of a prompt-based low-code app builder called AWS App Studio headlined the event. AI security takes center stage: Much of the conversation at the summit dealt with making people comfortable with the results they get from generative AI and ensuring data privacy: AWS VP for AI Products Matt Wood emphasized that AWS doesn't use customer data to improve its underlying models and doesn't have humans reviewing information inside a customer's virtual environment. Wood noted that firms in...
read Jul 18, 2024YouTube Music Launches AI-Powered Features to Enhance Discovery and Compete with Rivals
YouTube Music is introducing AI-powered features to enhance music discovery and personalization, positioning itself to compete more effectively in the streaming market. Key features rolling out: YouTube Music is launching two major AI-driven features - custom radio stations based on text prompts and a Shazam-like music recognition tool: The AI radio feature allows users to generate personalized radio stations by entering text prompts like "summertime jams" or "catchy pop choruses," similar to the AI playlist tools recently introduced by Spotify and Amazon Music. The music recognition feature enables users to search for songs by singing, humming, or letting the app...
read Jul 18, 2024Tenstorrent Launches Wormhole-Powered AI Devkits and Workstations
Tenstorrent unveils new Wormhole-based AI devkits and workstations: Tenstorrent, an AI chip firm led by Jim Keller, has announced new development kits and AI workstations powered by its Wormhole accelerators, marking the first time the company has offered complete workstations built around its chips. Key features of Tenstorrent's approach and products: Tenstorrent uses the royalty-free RISC-V processor ISA and open-source software stacks to offer scalable and performant AI processors with a low barrier to entry and lower total cost of ownership compared to competing solutions. The new devkits include the N150 (single Wormhole chip) and N300 (dual Wormhole chips), priced...
read Jul 18, 2024OpenAI Unveils Cheaper “Mini” Model Amid Intensifying AI Competition
OpenAI has announced a new low-cost "mini" model aimed at making its AI technology more widely accessible to businesses and developers. Key details of the new model: GPT-4o mini is 60% cheaper than OpenAI's most affordable existing model while offering better performance: The new model was developed by improving the architecture, refining the training data, and optimizing the training process. GPT-4o mini outperforms other "small" models on the market in several common benchmarks, according to OpenAI. Increasing competition in the AI market: OpenAI's move comes amidst growing rivalry among AI cloud providers and rising interest in open source models: Competitors...
read Jul 18, 2024Google’s Gemini AI Now Accessible on Android Lock Screens
Google's Gemini AI chatbot can now be used on Android lock screens, allowing users to ask general questions without unlocking or touching their phones first. Key functionality and limitations: Users can now ask Gemini questions about topics like weather, math problems, or basic facts and trivia directly from their Android lock screen. Sensitive personal information will still require user verification and unlocking the phone, so Gemini won't be handing over private data to just anyone who asks. Enhancing convenience and usability: This update makes Gemini considerably more useful in everyday life by eliminating the need to manually unlock the phone...
read Jul 18, 2024NTT Data Unveils Edge AI Platform to Accelerate Real-Time Decision-Making Across Industries
NTT Data, the IT infrastructure and services subsidiary of Japan's NTT, has unveiled its new Edge AI platform to accelerate AI processing at the edge, enabling real-time decision-making and enhanced operational efficiencies across industries. Key features and benefits of NTT Data's Edge AI platform: The fully managed solution processes data where it is generated, unifying diverse IoT devices, systems, and data into a single data plane: It addresses the challenge of processing massive data sets on compact computing platforms by using smaller, more efficient machine learning models to deliver real-time AI insights. The platform includes all the necessary systems, tools,...
read Jul 18, 2024Proton Mail Launches Privacy-Focused AI Writing Assistant, Proton Scribe, for Business Customers
Proton Mail introduces Proton Scribe, an AI-powered writing assistant that operates locally on users' devices to ensure privacy and security. Key features of Proton Scribe: The new AI writing tool offers a range of capabilities to enhance productivity and communication for Proton Mail business customers: Composes emails based on user prompts, helping users save time and effort in drafting messages Redrafts existing content to improve clarity and better convey the intended message Proofreads emails to identify and correct errors, ensuring polished and professional communication Privacy-focused approach: Proton emphasizes its commitment to user privacy and data security in the development and...
read Jul 18, 2024Deezer Launches AI-Powered Playlist Creator to Rival Spotify, Amazon, and YouTube Music
Deezer's new Playlist with AI feature allows users to generate personalized playlists by inputting text prompts describing musical preferences, moods, or activities, offering a novel approach to music discovery and curation. The feature is currently in beta, with 5% of Deezer's subscribers randomly selected to test it out. Playlist with AI utilizes an AI model to interpret user prompts and curate a list of songs from Deezer's vast music library, including tracks the user has never played before. The AI-generated playlists can be based on a wide range of criteria, from musical genres and time periods to current emotions and...
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