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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman anticipates superintelligence soon, defends AI in rare personal blog post

September 25, 2024
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman penned a rare note on his website today spelling out more of his vision of the AI-powered future, or as he calls it (and his blog post is titled): “The Intelligence Age.“ Specifically, Sam Altman argues that “deep learning works,” and can generalize across a range of domains and difficult problem sets based on its training data, allowing people to “solve hard…
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DataStax CEO: 2025 will be the year we see true AI transformation

September 24, 2024
As enterprise leaders grapple with the complexities of implementing generative AI, DataStax CEO Chet Kapoor offers a reassuring perspective: the current challenges are a normal part of technological revolutions, and 2025 will be the year when AI truly transforms business operations. Kapoor is on the front lines of how enterprise companies are implementing AI, because DataStax offers an operational…
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Runway inks deal with Lionsgate in first team-up for AI provider and major movie studio

September 23, 2024
New York City-based AI startup Runway, backed by Google and others, is going to Hollywood. Well, to be clear, it’s already been in use in Hollywood by filmmakers such as the creators of Academy Award Best Picture Winner Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. But today, Runway announced it has inked a deal with Lionsgate — the film studio behind John Wick and The Hunger Games and TV network STARZ…
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Tencent’s EzAudio AI transforms text to lifelike sound, sparking innovation and debate

September 20, 2024
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Tencent AI Lab have introduced EzAudio, a new text-to-audio (T2A) generation model that promises to deliver high-quality sound effects from text prompts with unprecedented efficiency. This advancement marks a significant leap in artificial intelligence and audio technology, addressing several key challenges in AI-generated audio. EzAudio operates in…
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