AI & Robotics

‘Is this what AI hardware should look like?‘ That’s been one of the many questions percolating around my mind since the beginning of this month, when I saw Cristóbal Valenzuela, the CEO of well-funded generative AI video startup Runway ML post a video clip to his X account of something called the “1stAI Machine.” Valenzuela called it “the first physical device for video editing…

Building software is precise, imaginative work. That’s why developers are most productive in interruption-free environments. In fact, eliminating distractions will do more to optimize engineers’ efforts than most changes you could make to tooling. A team of exceptionally productive engineers can increase a tech company’s output tenfold and reduce labor costs. When every engineer is capable…

In a blog post yesterday about how personal AI agents will completely change how people use computers — just a few days after OpenAI announced its “baby steps” towards agents with its Assistants API — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said that personal AI agents will be a ‘shock wave’ in the tech industry and society. “In the near future, anyone who’s online will be able to have a…

A team of researchers from Adobe Research and Australian National University have developed a groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) model that can transform a single 2D image into a high-quality 3D model in just 5 seconds. This breakthrough, detailed in their research paper LRM: Large Reconstruction Model for Single Image to 3D, could revolutionize industries such as gaming, animation…