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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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How to prompt on OpenAI’s new o1 models

September 16, 2024
OpenAI’s latest model family, o1, promises to be more powerful and better at reasoning than previous models.  Using GPT-o1 will be slightly different than prompting GPT-4 or even GPT-4o. Since this model has more reasoning capabilities, some regular prompt engineering…
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What does it cost to build a conversational AI?

September 16, 2024
More than 40% of marketing, sales and customer service organizations have adopted generative AI — making it second only to IT and cybersecurity. Of all gen AI technologies, conversational AI will spread rapidly within these sectors, because of its ability to bridge current communication gaps between businesses and customers. Yet many marketing business leaders I’ve spoken to get stuck at the…
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LLaMA-Omni: The open-source AI that’s giving Siri and Alexa a run for their money

September 13, 2024
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed an AI model that could change how we interact with digital assistants. The new system, dubbed LLaMA-Omni, enables real-time speech interaction with large language models (LLMs), promising to transform industries from customer service to healthcare. LLaMA-Omni, built on Meta’s open-source Llama 3.1 8B Instruct model, can process spoken…
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