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Why we need to check the gen AI hype and get back to reality

September 2, 2024
For the past 18 months, I have observed the burgeoning conversation around large language models (LLMs) and generative AI. The breathless hype and hyperbolic conjecture about the future have ballooned— perhaps even bubbled — casting a shadow over the practical applications of today’s AI tools. The hype underscores the profound limitations of AI at this moment while undermining how these…
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This new open-source AI, CogVideoX, could change how we create videos forever

August 30, 2024
Researchers from Tsinghua University and Zhipu AI have unleashed CogVideoX, an open-source text-to-video model that threatens to disrupt the AI landscape dominated by startups like Runway, Luma AI and Pika Labs. This breakthrough, detailed in a recent arXiv paper, puts advanced video generation capabilities into the hands of developers worldwide. ??Hot New Release: CogVideoX-5B, a new…
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Microsoft releases powerful new Phi-3.5 models, beating Google, OpenAI and more

August 26, 2024
Microsoft isn’t resting its AI success on the laurels of its partnership with OpenAI. No, far from it. Instead, the company often known as Redmond for its headquarters location in Washington state today came out swinging with the release of 3 new models in its evolving Phi series of language/multimodal AI.   The three new Phi 3.5 models include the 3.82 billion parameter…
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How Piramidal is using AI to decode the human brain

August 23, 2024
The human brain is ultimately one of the last frontiers — a paradoxical black box that we can’t even begin to understand ourselves.But what if, just as paradoxically, AI could interpret the complexities of the brain to help identify and diagnose some of our most serious…
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Skyfire launches to let autonomous AI agents spend money on your behalf

August 23, 2024
A new San Francisco startup, Skyfire, is launching today in beta with $8.5 million in seed round funding to become the “Visa for AI” by allowing you to equip autonomous AI agents made by other companies with your money and let them spend it while they go off on and work for you. “We’re enabling is AI agents to be able to autonomously make payments, receive payments, hold balances,” said…
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