Just yesterday, I asked if Google would ever get an AI product release right on the first try. Consider that asked and answered — at least, going by the looks of its latest research.
This week, Google showed off VideoPoet, a new large language model (LLM) designed for a variety of video generation tasks from a team of 31 researchers at Google Research.
The fact that the Google Research team…
AI will make 2024 US elections a ‘hot mess’
December 22, 2023
Generative AI will make the 2024 US elections a ‘hot mess’ — whether it is from chatbots or deepfakes — while at the same time, politics will slow down AI regulation efforts, says Nathan Lambert, a machine learning researcher at the Allen Institute for AI, who also…
In its continuous pursuit of advancements in the generative AI domain, Google has introduced a new product, NotebookLM. This experimental AI-driven online note-taking app, marked by the integration of the Gemini AI Model 1, has progressed from its initial limited release to…
Many of us in the technology and business worlds have been thinking a lot more about artificial intelligence (AI) in the past year since OpenAI released ChatGPT, catapulting generative AI into the mainstream.
But for Juergen Mueller, the chief technology officer of German enterprise software giant SAP — the third largest software company in the world by annual revenue, according to Investopedia…
Mine’s $30M boost will bring AI-based privacy to the enterprise
December 9, 2023
In a turbulent year for venture capital investing, Mine countered the trend with a Series B $30 million funding round co-led by PayPal Ventures and Battery Ventures, with notable investment from Nationwide Ventures.
The shift in regulation for both consumer and employee…
Stanford and Meta inch towards AI that acts human with new ‘CHOIS’ interaction model
December 9, 2023
Researchers from Stanford University and Meta’s Facebook AI Research (FAIR) lab have developed a breakthrough AI system that can generate natural, synchronized motions between virtual humans and objects based solely on text descriptions.
The new system, dubbed CHOIS…
Justin Maier, the Mormon-raised, Boise, Idaho-based founder of open-source AI platform Civitai, has had a wild year — and a rough few months.
His company was founded a year ago to support a community discovering, creating and sharing models and image-generated content based on the popular text-to-image generator Stable Diffusion. Since then, it has exploded from a four-person startup and less…
ChatGPT rival Pi launches on Android
December 9, 2023
Inflection AI, the Palo Alto-based startup founded by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, just announced that its AI chatbot ‘Pi’ is now available as a dedicated app on Android.
The move, which is expected to give billions of users…
In the equivalent of a mic drop, open source model startup Mistral AI released a new LLM today with nothing but a torrent link.
It immediately created community buzz for the stark contrast with Google’s Gemini release this week, or what OpenAI’s Andrej Karpathy called…
Google’s Gemini AI launch marred by questions over capabilities
December 9, 2023
Google unveiled its much-anticipated artificial intelligence system Gemini on Wednesday, touting benchmarks suggesting it could compete with OpenAI’s industry-leading GPT-4 model in reasoning abilities. But the launch has quickly been overshadowed by accusations that the tech giant overstated Gemini’s capabilities.
In a tightly choreographed video demonstration, Google showed Gemini…
