News/New Launches
NVIDIA Releases New AI Video Upscaling Tech
NVIDIA's latest AI video upscaling technology, RTX Video Super Resolution, significantly improves the quality of streamed and offline video content. Key features of RTX Video Super Resolution: NVIDIA's AI-powered video upscaling solution leverages dedicated Tensor Cores on GeForce RTX 40 and 30 Series GPUs and RTX professional GPUs to remove compression artifacts and upscale lower-resolution content up to 4K, matching the user's native display resolution. The technology combines advanced de-artifacting techniques with AI upscaling to deliver stunningly clear video, even from low-bitrate sources like Twitch streams. RTX Video Super Resolution will soon be available in popular video editing apps like...
read Jul 17, 2024HP Unveils AI Computers, Intensifying Tech Hardware Battle
HP's new AI-powered computers are set to intensify competition in the tech hardware market as companies race to integrate artificial intelligence capabilities into their products. Key details of HP's AI computer launch: HP has announced plans to release "the world's highest performance AI PC," positioning itself at the forefront of the AI hardware battle: The new computers feature an advanced chip capable of running AI commands without an internet connection, aimed at enhancing productivity in the workplace. Notable features include a camera that tracks the user's face during meetings, an on-device AI "companion," and the ability to build a searchable...
read Jul 17, 2024Samsung’s ZFold 6 AI Turns Sketches into Photorealistic Images
Samsung's new Fold 6 features a powerful "sketch to image" AI tool that can turn rough sketches into photorealistic images. Key Features of Sketch to Image: The "sketch to image" tool on the Galaxy Z Fold 6 allows users to draw rough sketches on photos or blank note pages and uses generative AI to transform them into detailed images: Drawing on a blank note produces fun, cartoon-like results, such as goofy trucks or teddy bears with extra limbs, based on the user's doodle and chosen style like "3D cartoon" or "illustration". Sketching on an existing photo yields more troubling outcomes,...
read Jul 17, 2024Google Launches Project Oscar To Bring AI Agents to Open-Source Software Development
Project Oscar is an open-source platform from Google that enables software product teams to create AI agents for managing issues and bugs throughout the software development lifecycle: AI agents can range from developer agents to planning, runtime, and support agents, interacting through natural language without requiring code changes. The platform is currently geared towards open-source projects but may be released for closed-source projects in the future. Real-world application in Go: Google's open-source programming language Go has deployed an AI agent through Project Oscar to help manage the project's large scale and complexity: The Go project has over 93,000 commits and...
read Jul 17, 2024Bhutan’s Student-Led AI Startup Secures Major Clients, Faces Scaling Challenges Amid Infrastructure Limitations
Bhutan's first AI startup, NoMindBhutan, is run by seven college students and has secured prominent clients, but faces challenges scaling due to the country's limited infrastructure. Key players: College students taking on the AI industry; NoMindBhutan was founded by Ugyen Dendup and Jamphel Yigzin Samdrup, two sophomores at Gyalpozhing College of Information Technology, which recently revamped its curriculum to focus on AI and data science: The seven-member team, all college students, operates out of their dorm room and rented spaces during college vacations, putting in long hours to balance their startup work with classes and assignments. The college has played...
read Jul 17, 2024Microsoft’s AI-Powered Designer Is Out of Preview And Available on iOS
Microsoft's AI-powered Designer app launches on iOS and Android, enabling users to create and edit images, designs, and more on the go. The app, which has been in preview for nearly a year, is now generally available with a range of AI-driven features. Key features and capabilities: Designer offers a comprehensive set of tools for creating and editing images and designs: Users can generate custom images, stickers, greeting cards, invitations, and more using AI-powered templates. The app includes an avatar creator, allowing users to design personalized avatars. Designer enables AI-driven image editing, such as restyling existing images, removing backgrounds, erasing...
read Jul 17, 2024OpenAI Founding Member Announces Launch of New AI Education Startup Eureka Labs
Andrej Karpathy, former OpenAI founding member and Tesla AI scientist, has announced the launch of Eureka Labs, an AI-native school that aims to improve education by combining human expertise with AI teaching assistants. Teacher + AI symbiosis: Eureka Labs seeks to provide an ideal learning experience by leveraging AI to scale and guide human expert-written course materials: Subject matter experts will design course materials, while AI teaching assistants will guide students through them, allowing for a common platform to run an entire curriculum. The goal is to make it easy for anyone to learn anything, expanding education in both reach...
read Jul 17, 2024Salesforce Debuts AI-Powered Einstein Service Agent
Salesforce introduces Einstein Service Agent, a generative AI-powered self-service platform that empowers customers to resolve issues through conversational AI, marking a significant step forward in customer service automation. Key features of Einstein Service Agent: The new AI agent leverages Salesforce's extensive customer data and approved workflows to provide personalized, multi-step interactions for end-customers: Enables customers to ask questions, get resolutions, and take actions such as product returns or refunds through a conversational AI interface Seamlessly integrates with Salesforce's existing customer data and workflows, ensuring secure and trusted interactions grounded in the company's established systems Initially focused on customer service scenarios,...
read Jul 16, 2024Huma Raises $80M To Accelerate Development of Digital Health Apps
Huma, a London-based health-tech company, has launched an AI-powered cloud platform that enables startups to quickly prototype, launch, and scale regulated digital health apps, including those enhanced with AI capabilities. Generative AI builder experience drives rapid app development: The Huma Cloud Platform offers a suite of tools, most notably a generative AI-powered builder that can transform text prompts into functional applications within minutes: Users can create custom digital health apps using a combination of widgets, modules, templates, and disease management tools through a simple drag-and-drop interface. If drag-and-drop functionality isn't sufficient, users can leverage the generative AI builder by inputting...
read Jul 16, 2024Claude Challenges ChatGPT on Android In Anthropic’s Mobile AI Gambit
Anthropic has released its AI assistant Claude on Android, intensifying competition with OpenAI's ChatGPT and signaling a new phase in the mobile AI race. Mobile AI showdown: Claude's Android debut targets ChatGPT's dominance; The Android launch is a strategic move by Anthropic to rapidly scale its user base and challenge OpenAI's market leadership: With over 3 billion active Android users worldwide, Anthropic aims to close the gap with ChatGPT in terms of mobile accessibility and adoption. Anthropic's strict privacy policy of not using user interactions for model training could appeal to privacy-conscious users and enterprises, differentiating Claude in the competitive...
read Jul 16, 2024Haiper 1.5 Is the Latest Challenger in the Text-to-Video Battleground
The launch of Haiper 1.5 positions the London-based startup as a strong contender in the rapidly evolving AI video generation market, taking on established players like Runway, Pika, and OpenAI: Haiper, founded by former Google Deepmind researchers, has onboarded over 1.5 million users on its platform just four months after emerging from stealth, highlighting its strong positioning and potential for growth. Runway recently opened access to its new, more realistic model for video generation, setting a high bar for competitors in terms of quality and capabilities. OpenAI's entry into the text-to-video space with its Sora model capable of generating 60-second...
read Jul 16, 2024NVIDIA AI Supercharges Filmora Video Editing, Enabling HDR and Accelerated Workflows
The video editing software Wondershare Filmora has added support for NVIDIA's AI-powered RTX Video HDR technology, enabling users to significantly enhance the quality and vibrancy of their videos. Key features and updates: Wondershare Filmora now supports NVIDIA RTX Video HDR, which uses AI to transform standard dynamic range video into HDR10-quality video with expanded color gamut, clearer frames and greater depth. Filmora users with NVIDIA RTX GPUs can also leverage RTX Video Super Resolution to further sharpen and enhance video quality by restoring features and removing artifacts. Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting has been added to OBS Studio and XSplit Broadcaster, giving...
read Jul 16, 2024Meta’s Upcoming LLM Launch Will Be Another Big Milestone for Open-Source AI
Meta is set to release Llama 3 400B, its most powerful open-source AI language model, by the end of July 2024. Key details and capabilities: Meta's upcoming release of the Llama 3 400B model is highly anticipated due to its impressive performance and open availability for research and commercial use: Boasting over 400 billion parameters, Llama 3 400B achieves near-parity with OpenAI's GPT-4 on the MMLU benchmark despite using less than half the parameters, suggesting significant advancements in model architecture and training efficiency. The model promises new capabilities such as multimodality, multilingual conversation, longer context windows, and stronger overall performance...
read Jul 16, 2024Zoc Aims To Empower Students And Transform Education With AI
AI company Zoc is attempting to radically change the educational landscape by leveraging AI technology to enhance the learning experience for students, particularly those with learning challenges or language barriers. Key features and benefits: Zoc offers a suite of AI-powered tools designed to streamline the learning process and make it more engaging for students: The app records lectures, generates transcripts, and creates well-organized notes, allowing students to focus on the lecture without the distraction of note-taking. Zoc's tutoring function enables students to quiz themselves on lecture material, reinforcing their understanding of key concepts. The platform can evaluate written essays, providing...
read Jul 16, 2024Vectara Raises $25M, Launches Mockingbird LLM for Enterprise RAG
Vectara, an early pioneer in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) technology, has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $53.5 million, as demand for its technologies grows among enterprise users. Vectara's evolution and the introduction of Mockingbird LLM: Vectara has progressed from a neural search as a service platform to a 'grounded search' or RAG technology provider, and is now launching its purpose-built Mockingbird LLM for RAG applications: The Vectara platform integrates multiple elements to enable a RAG pipeline, including the company's Boomerang vector embedding engine, which grounds responses from a large language model...
read Jul 15, 2024AMD Reveals New AI Chips With 35x CPU Performance
AMD unveils next-generation AI PC architecture with powerful new NPUs and Zen 5 CPUs, aiming to lead the AI computing era. Key details of AMD's AI PC architecture: AMD executives revealed the company's latest AI PC architecture, which includes a new neural processing unit (NPU) in the AMD Ryzen AI chips, offering significant performance improvements over CPUs and integrated GPUs: The NPUs in AMD's Ryzen AI processors can operate on AI models at 35 times the performance per watt of a standard CPU and achieve eight times the performance of an integrated GPU. The third generation of AMD Ryzen AI...
read Jul 15, 2024HP’s AI-Powered Computers Raise the Bar for PC Performance
AMD and HP team up on powerful new OmniBook Ultra laptop: AMD has partnered with HP to develop a custom Ryzen AI 300-series processor with a boosted Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for HP's latest flagship laptop, the OmniBook Ultra: The custom AMD chip is rated for 55 trillion operations per second (TOPS) of AI performance, a significant increase over AMD's recently announced 50 TOPS Ryzen AI 300-series processors. This makes the OmniBook Ultra the "world's fastest AI PC" for now, with HP claiming a 44% AI performance advantage over Apple's M4 chip and 3x faster response times in AI chatbots....
read Jul 13, 2024DeepMind’s “PEER” Architecture Scales Language Models While Keeping Costs Low
DeepMind's new Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, PEER, scales language models to millions of tiny experts, improving performance while keeping computational costs down. Key innovation: Parameter Efficient Expert Retrieval (PEER); DeepMind's novel MoE architecture introduces a learned index to efficiently route input data to a vast pool of millions of tiny experts, enabling significant scaling without slowing down inference: PEER replaces the fixed router in traditional MoE with a fast initial computation to create a shortlist of potential expert candidates before activating the top experts. Unlike previous MoE architectures with large experts, PEER uses tiny single-neuron experts in the hidden layer, allowing...
read Jul 13, 2024Amazon’s AI Chatbot Rufus: Your New Personal Shopper for Prime Day and Beyond
Amazon's AI chatbot Rufus is now available to all U.S. customers, just in time for Prime Day, to make shopping easier and more personalized: Rufus can answer general questions to help generate gift ideas, like "what do I need for a summer party?" as well as provide specific product recommendations based on customer needs. The chatbot draws information from product listings and customer reviews to answer questions about specific items, such as whether a coffee maker is easy to clean. Rufus can also provide information about a customer's Amazon account, including order status and purchase history. Potential Limitations and Caveats:...
read Jul 13, 2024Sam Altman Backed Thrive Promises Wellness Miracles, but Can It Deliver?
A new AI health startup promises miracles, but offers few specifics. Thrive AI Health, launched by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and entrepreneur Arianna Huffington, aims to use generative AI to improve health outcomes and reduce chronic disease worldwide through personalized health coaching. Key concept, long on vision but short on details: The startup's central idea is an AI health coach that would use a user's biometric and health data to generate personalized insights and recommendations, but Altman and Huffington provided few specifics on what form this would take or when it would launch. They suggest the AI platform would be...
read Jul 12, 2024Amazon Unveils Rufus, an AI Shopping Assistant with Conversational Abilities
Amazon's AI shopping assistant Rufus is now available to all US users, offering a new way to interact with the e-commerce giant's vast product catalog, but its broader conversational abilities raise some concerns. Key Features: Rufus is designed to enhance the shopping experience on Amazon's mobile app, providing users with a convenient way to ask questions and receive personalized recommendations: Users can access Rufus via an icon in the app's navigation bar, allowing them to chat with the AI assistant about products, orders, and more. Rufus draws upon Amazon's product listings, reviews, and community Q&As, as well as some web-based...
read Jul 12, 2024Perplexity AI to Share Ad Revenue with Publishers in Groundbreaking Move
Perplexity, an AI chatbot, is set to launch a first-of-its-kind revenue-sharing program with web publishers next month, enabling them to monetize their content when cited by the platform. Key Takeaways: The revenue-sharing initiative will be based on advertising run alongside search queries on Perplexity, with partners receiving a percentage of revenue for ads displayed against results that cite their content: The program will include both the paid Perplexity Pro offering and the free version of the platform. Partners will be entitled to a share of the revenue whenever an ad is run against a result that cites a link from...
read Jul 12, 2024AI “Coach” Detects Hallucinations, Boosts Accuracy and Safety
A new AI model called Lynx, developed by Patronus AI, aims to detect and explain hallucinations produced by large language models (LLMs), offering a faster, cheaper, and more reliable way to catch AI mistakes without human intervention. Addressing the challenge of AI hallucinations: Patronus AI's founders, ex-Meta AI researchers Anand Kannappan and Rebecca Qian, recognized the need for a solution to the problem of AI models confidently making factual errors: Kannappan and Qian spoke with numerous company executives who expressed concerns about launching AI products that could make headlines for the wrong reasons due to AI hallucinations. Lynx is designed...
read Jul 12, 2024Faster, More Accurate Cancer Diagnosis Is Now a Reality Because of AI
Paige AI technology aims to improve cancer diagnostics and patient outcomes: Cofounded by Thomas Fuchs, Paige is the first company with an FDA-approved AI tool for cancer diagnosis, potentially revolutionizing the healthcare industry through enhanced precision and care. Fuchs discusses AI's role in accelerating cancer detection: AI models leverage visual pattern recognition to speed up cancer detection in imaging and pathology. Paige has demonstrated promising results in using AI for these applications. Fuchs highlights the challenges that still exist in cancer detection. Drawing from diverse experience to advance medical AI: Fuchs' background includes engineering roles at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory....
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