AI & Robotics

OpenAI continues to share clips of Sora, its impressively smooth and photorealistic generative AI video model, but it remains an internal model only for now. Meanwhile, rivals in the fast-moving video AI space including Pika aren’t letting the moment go to waste. This weekend, Pika added a new feature that allows users to automatically generate sound effects for their AI videos made on the web…

Insilico Medicine, the Hong Kong and New York-based biotech startup that has raised over $400 million to connect biology, chemistry, and clinical trial analysis using next-generation AI systems, announced a new paper today that highlights the journey of what it claims is the first AI-generated and AI-discovered drug — which has now reached Phase II clinical trials. The paper, in Nature…

Today, Inflection AI, the Palo Alto-based startup founded by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, announced a new foundation model called Inflection-2.5. Built on the work done so far, Inflection-2.5 outperforms the company’s original Inflection-1 significantly and nearly matches OpenAI’s GPT-4 model, especially across STEM subjects. It now powers the…

Salesforce is continuing its generative AI push with the availability today of the company’s Einstein 1 Studio, timed to coincide with the company’s TrailblazerDX developer conference. Einstein 1 Studio provides a set of tools that can enable developers to customize the Salesforce Einstein Copilot gen AI assistant, which became available as a beta release last week. The Einstein 1 Studio was…