News/New Launches
AI Video: Runway’s Gen-3 Offers Stunning Realism and Endless Possibilities
Runway's Gen-3 AI video model is now available to select users, enabling the creation of impressive and realistic videos from text prompts. Key capabilities and improvements: Gen-3 offers significant advancements over the previous generation, allowing for more natural motion, improved realism, and longer initial video clips: The model can generate 10-11 second videos, compared to 2-3 seconds in the previous version. Gen-3 was trained on both image and video simultaneously, resulting in enhanced realism. The model performs well in lip-syncing, enabling full-body animation with accurate lip movements. Examples of user-generated content: Creative Partners with early access to Gen-3 have shared...
read Jul 1, 2024Solos AirGo Vision: AI-Powered Smart Glasses Rival Meta Ray-Ban with GPT-4o Integration
Solos has unveiled its AirGo Vision smart glasses, a rival to the Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses that leverage OpenAI's GPT-4o model to identify objects and people, and respond to voice prompts, providing a ChatGPT-powered visual assistant. Key features and functionality: The AirGo Vision smart glasses incorporate a camera and AI capabilities to enhance the user experience: The built-in camera and support for GPT-4o allow the glasses to recognize objects and people in the user's field of view. Users can ask questions like "what am I looking at?" or give specific requests such as "give me directions to the Eiffel Tower"...
read Jul 1, 2024Apple’s Vision for AI: Integrating Intelligence into Mixed-Reality Headset
Apple is actively working on integrating AI capabilities into its Vision Pro mixed-reality headset, but these features are not expected to be available this year. Key details on Apple's AI plans for Vision Pro: Apple unveiled its Apple Intelligence AI product earlier this month with a promise to bring the technology to iPhone, iPad, and Mac; however, it now appears the company is also looking to incorporate AI features into the Vision Pro headset: The Vision Pro's 16GB of memory should be sufficient to run AI capabilities on the device. Features like notification prioritization, writing tools, an OpenAI chatbot, and...
read Jul 1, 2024Pure Storage Launches AI-Driven Platform, Redefining Enterprise Storage for the AI Era
Pure Storage unveils a comprehensive AI-driven enterprise storage platform, delivering enhanced performance, automation, and intelligence to meet the evolving needs of modern AI workloads and data-centric environments. Key innovations and capabilities: Pure Storage introduces several groundbreaking features designed to simplify storage management and optimize performance across diverse enterprise environments: Pure Fusion, an industry-first storage automation solution, unifies storage arrays and dynamically optimizes storage pools across structured and unstructured data, both on-premises and in the cloud. The Pure Storage AI Copilot, a pioneering generative AI tool, leverages insights from thousands of customers to guide storage teams through complex performance and management...
read Jul 1, 2024Raspberry Pi AI Kit: Affordable Entry into AI Programming for Students and Hobbyists
The Raspberry Pi AI Kit is a budget-friendly add-on for the Raspberry Pi 5 that provides an affordable entry point into AI programming for students and hobbyists. Key features and specifications: The $70 kit includes a Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+, a Hailo AI accelerator with a Hailo-8L AI chip rated at 13 TOPS, and mounting hardware to connect it to a Raspberry Pi 5 (sold separately for $80). The Hailo-8L's 13 TOPS performance is comparable to first-generation AI accelerators in AMD's Ryzen 7040 and Intel's "Meteor Lake" mobile processors. Setup is straightforward, involving attaching the HAT+ to the Raspberry Pi...
read Jun 29, 2024AI vs AI: The High-Stakes Battle to Detect Deepfakes and Defend Reality
Deepfakes are becoming more sophisticated and accessible, posing risks for businesses and democracy. A new company founded by image manipulation expert Hany Farid aims to combat the problem with AI and traditional forensic techniques. Key takeaways: Get Real Labs has developed software to detect AI-generated and manipulated images, audio, and video that is being tested by Fortune 500 companies to spot deepfake job seekers: Some companies have lost money to scammers using deepfakes to impersonate real people in video interviews, taking signing bonuses and disappearing. The FBI and others have warned about the growing threat of deepfakes being used in...
read Jun 29, 2024Resemble AI’s Detect-2B: A Leap Forward in Combating Deepfake Audio
Resemble AI has released Detect-2B, a next-generation AI audio detection model that can identify deepfake audio with 94% accuracy, marking a significant advancement in the fight against misinformation and erosion of trust in an era of increasingly sophisticated generative AI. Key features of Detect-2B: The new model utilizes a series of pre-trained sub-models and fine-tuning techniques to analyze audio clips and determine whether they were generated using AI: The sub-models consist of a frozen audio representation model with an adaptation module inserted into its key layers, allowing the model to focus on artifacts that often distinguish real audio from fake...
read Jun 29, 2024Mailchimp’s AI Vision: Transforming SMEs with End-to-End Automation and Revenue Intelligence
Mailchimp unveils ambitious plans to provide an end-to-end AI automation solution for small and medium-sized businesses, aiming to streamline operations, boost growth, and enable strategic decision-making. Leveraging AI for SMEs: Mailchimp recognizes the potential of AI to help smaller businesses innovate, create new products and services, improve customer support, and optimize operations: Generative AI levels the playing field, allowing SMEs to compete with larger players by automating tasks that once required entire teams. Mailchimp has provided AI tools, mainly for content creation, to SME users for years and now plans to expand its AI-powered services and applications. Integrating data for...
read Jun 28, 2024Microsoft’s AI-Powered PCs: Niche Niceties, Missed Opportunities, and Future Potential
Microsoft's first AI-powered PCs, the Copilot+ line, offer decent hardware upgrades but fall short in delivering truly game-changing AI experiences, leaving room for future improvements. Key features and limitations: The AI features in the Copilot+ PCs are more niche niceties than compelling overhauls, with some standout capabilities but also significant limitations: Live Captions, which provide real-time translations of audio and video, showcase the potential of on-device AI by combining generative AI with performance advantages. Windows Studio Effects offer filters to enhance user appearance in video chats, ranging from centering subjects to cartoonifying users, but may not appeal to everyone. Image...
read Jun 28, 2024Google Translate Adds 110 Languages, Expands Reach to 614M More People Worldwide
Google Translate has significantly expanded its capabilities by leveraging Google's PaLM 2 large language model, allowing it to accurately translate a much wider array of languages, dialects, and creoles. Key details of the expansion: Google Translate is adding 110 new languages, the largest single expansion in the platform's history, enabling it to serve an additional 614 million people, or about 8% of the global population: The update includes some widely spoken languages like Cantonese and Punjabi (Shahmukhi), as well as lesser-known tongues like Manx, Sicilian Italian, and Tok Pisin. African languages saw their biggest expansion, with the addition of Fon,...
read Jun 28, 2024Zuckerberg Slams Closed AI, Unveils Meta’s AR Glasses Roadmap
Mark Zuckerberg criticized unnamed AI competitors for their closed-source approach, suggesting they seem to think they are "creating God" with their limited access AI products. Open AI as the future: Zuckerberg emphasized his belief in open source AI, arguing that artificial intelligence technology should not be hoarded by a single company to build a central product: He finds it off-putting when tech industry figures talk about building "one true AI", as if they are creating something akin to God. Zuckerberg believes realistically there needs to be many different AIs created to reflect diverse interests, comparing it to how there isn't...
read Jun 28, 2024Google Cloud Boosts AI Accuracy with New Updates to Vertex AI
Google Cloud introduces new Vertex AI capabilities to enhance the accuracy and reliability of enterprise AI applications, addressing concerns about misleading or inaccurate outputs from generative AI models. Key features for enterprise-ready AI: Google Cloud is rolling out new features for its Vertex AI platform to help organizations build more accurate and trustworthy AI services: Grounding with third-party datasets: Customers can now leverage specialized datasets from providers like Moody's, MSCI, Thomson Reuters, and ZoomInfo to improve the accuracy of their AI models' outputs, with this feature becoming available in Q3 2024. High-fidelity mode: Organizations can use their own corporate datasets...
read Jun 28, 2024Meta’s LLM Compiler Is the Latest Breakthrough To Change How Developers Will Code
Meta's LLM Compiler is a groundbreaking suite of open-source models that could revolutionize code optimization and compiler design, making the process faster, more efficient, and cost-effective. AI-powered code optimization: LLM Compiler pushes the boundaries of efficiency by demonstrating remarkable results in code size optimization and disassembly: The model reached 77% of the optimizing potential of an autotuning search in tests, which could significantly reduce compilation times and improve code efficiency across various applications. LLM Compiler achieved a 45% success rate in round-trip disassembly when converting x86_64 and ARM assembly back into LLVM-IR, showcasing its potential for reverse engineering tasks and...
read Jun 27, 2024Google’s Imagen 3 Launches on Vertex AI, Transforming Text-to-Image Generation
Google's Imagen 3 text-to-image foundation model is now available in preview on the company's Vertex AI platform, offering enhanced capabilities for generating high-quality images from text prompts. Key features of Imagen 3 on Vertex AI: The updated model brings several improvements to the text-to-image generation process, making it more accessible and powerful for developers: Faster image generation, better prompt understanding, and more photorealistic output, especially when generating images of people Greater control over text rendering within the generated images Multi-language support, safety features like SynthID digital watermarking, and multiple aspect ratio support Early adopter feedback: Shutterstock, a stock photography provider,...
read Jun 27, 2024Windows 11: AI-Powered Productivity Boost with Sleek Design and Enhanced Security
Windows 11, Microsoft's latest operating system, offers compelling reasons to upgrade from Windows 10 sooner rather than later. A slick new interface: Windows 11 boasts a more consistent and visually appealing user interface compared to its predecessor: Rounded window corners, a compact Taskbar, and a touch-friendly design create a modern and aesthetically pleasing look. New pleasing system sounds add to the overall user experience. Generative AI with Copilot: Windows 11 integrates Microsoft's Copilot, a powerful generative AI tool, directly into the operating system: Copilot combines ChatGPT's intelligence with Bing's web-scraping capabilities for up-to-date information. The Windows 11 version of Copilot...
read Jun 27, 2024Figma Gets a UI Makeover with New Gen AI Features
Figma, a popular design collaboration platform, has announced a significant redesign and new AI capabilities at its Config conference, aiming to enhance user experience and streamline the design process. UI redesign for the next decade: Figma's third major redesign, dubbed "UI3," introduces a refreshed user interface with a new toolbar, rounded corners, and 200 new icons: The redesign aims to make the canvas more focused on user work rather than the UI itself, while ensuring the platform remains approachable for new users and efficient for experts. The new look is currently available as a limited beta, with interested users able...
read Jun 27, 2024Anthropic’s Claude AI Introduces Project Hubs and Artifact Generation for Enhanced Collaboration
Anthropic has introduced two new collaboration features for its Claude AI aimed at streamlining workflows and enabling personalized project management. Key Takeaways: The new Projects and Artifacts features allow Pro and Team users to organize data, documents, and chat activity into centralized project hubs, enabling Claude to provide personalized answers and generate project-specific content: Projects serve as a central repository where teams can store all relevant data for a specific project, including documents and code, allowing Claude to draw from this knowledge base to provide tailored responses. Artifacts enable users to directly interact with Claude, requesting the AI to generate...
read Jun 26, 2024Honor’s AI Innovations: Protecting Eyes, Detecting Deepfakes, and Redefining Human-AI Synergy
Honor unveils AI-powered eye protection technology: Honor has introduced its AI Defocus Eye Protection technology at MWC Shanghai, leveraging on-device AI models to alleviate common eye issues associated with prolonged screen use, such as myopia (nearsightedness): The technology works by using AI to simulate defocus glasses on the phone screen, originally designed to correct nearsightedness in children but also shown to enhance focus, prevent eye fatigue, and improve comfort for adults. According to Honor, their technique has already demonstrated a reduction in users' transient myopia by an average of 13 degrees after 25 minutes of reading, with some users experiencing...
read Jun 26, 2024ChatGPT Arrives on Mac: AI Revolution Comes to Apple Devices
OpenAI has officially released the ChatGPT app for Mac, making the powerful AI tool available to a wider range of users: The app is compatible with devices running macOS 14+ with Apple Silicon (M1 or better), allowing users to harness ChatGPT's capabilities directly on their Macs. The app offers features such as the ability to chat about emails, screenshots, files, and anything on the user's screen, integrating AI assistance into various workflows. Upcoming features and accessibility: While the app is currently available, some highly anticipated features are set to be introduced in the near future: The voice features demonstrated during...
read Jun 26, 2024Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet: Smarter, Faster, Cheaper AI May Open Up New Use Cases
The AI giant makes big strides with its latest model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, aiming to set a new standard for speed, cost, and performance in the competitive field of artificial intelligence. Key Takeaways: Anthropic's most advanced AI model to date; Claude 3.5 Sonnet is part of a new family of models that the company claims outperforms rivals like GPT-4 in coding, writing, and complex instruction interpretation while being faster and more cost-effective: The model generates responses twice as fast as its predecessor, Claude 3 Opus, and has an improved understanding of humor and nuance. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has already been...
read Jun 26, 2024Hot Pink Razr Returns: Motorola’s AI-Powered Flip Phones Boast Upgraded Specs, Iconic Style
The iconic hot pink Motorola Razr is back, now with AI capabilities and a larger external screen, as the company celebrates the 20th anniversary of the original Razr flip phone. New Razr models and design: Motorola has launched two new folding flip phones - the Razr and Razr+ - with the latter featuring the return of the iconic Hot Pink color: The Razr+ has a 4-inch external screen (17% larger than last year's model), while the Razr gets a 3.6-inch screen (2.5 times larger than its predecessor). Both phones have a mix of vegan leather and suede designs in various...
read Jun 26, 2024Google’s August 13th Event: AI, Android, and Pixel 9 Unveiling Expected
Google's Pixel 9 event scheduled for August 13th promises a showcase of AI, Android, and new hardware, marking an earlier than usual launch for the tech giant. Key details of the upcoming event: Google has announced an in-person "Made by Google" event for August 13th, where the company is expected to unveil its latest offerings: The event will take place at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET, and will feature the "best of Google AI, Android software, and the Pixel portfolio of devices." A teaser video titled "AI... meet IX at Made by Google" further emphasizes the event's focus...
read Jun 26, 2024ElevenLabs Launches AI-Powered App, Turning Any Website into a Personalized Podcast Experience
ElevenLabs launches AI-powered iPhone app that converts any website into a podcast: The new ElevenLabs Reader app allows users to listen to any content, from novels to web pages, using the platform's extensive library of cloned and synthetic voices. The app, currently available for iPhone users in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., offers a 3-month free trial with near-unlimited generations and access to high-quality voices. Users can clone their own voice for a personalized listening experience, making it feel like they recorded the content themselves. ElevenLabs plans to expand the app to more countries, devices, and languages soon, with...
read Jun 25, 2024Google Infuses Workspace with AI, Raising Productivity and Privacy Concerns
Google is adding Gemini 1.5 Pro as a pop-out sidebar in Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Gmail, enabling the AI to sift through documents, scan data, write emails, and summarize messages: In Slides, Gemini can create agendas, summarize presentations, generate new slides, and create custom images. For Sheets, it will generate table templates, formulas, and help sort data. The Gemini sidebar and Gmail integration will only be available to paying Google Workspace, Gemini Education, or Google One AI subscribers, not free users. Privacy Implications: Gemini's access to users' content, files, and data in Google's apps could pose privacy concerns:...
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