In its continuous pursuit of advancements in the generative AI domain, Google has introduced a new product, NotebookLM. This experimental AI-driven online note-taking app, marked by the integration of the Gemini AI Model 1, has progressed from its initial limited release to being generally available for all adult users in the United States who opt into it. Despite the mixed results from previous…
Many of us in the technology and business worlds have been thinking a lot more about artificial intelligence (AI) in the past year since OpenAI released ChatGPT, catapulting generative AI into the mainstream.
But for Juergen Mueller, the chief technology officer of German…
Mine’s $30M boost will bring AI-based privacy to the enterprise
December 9, 2023
In a turbulent year for venture capital investing, Mine countered the trend with a Series B $30 million funding round co-led by PayPal Ventures and Battery Ventures, with notable investment from Nationwide Ventures.
The shift in regulation for both consumer and employee…
Stanford and Meta inch towards AI that acts human with new ‘CHOIS’ interaction model
December 9, 2023
Researchers from Stanford University and Meta’s Facebook AI Research (FAIR) lab have developed a breakthrough AI system that can generate natural, synchronized motions between virtual humans and objects based solely on text descriptions.
The new system, dubbed CHOIS (Controllable Human-Object Interaction Synthesis), uses the latest conditional diffusion model techniques to produce seamless and…
Justin Maier, the Mormon-raised, Boise, Idaho-based founder of open-source AI platform Civitai, has had a wild year — and a rough few months.
His company was founded a year ago to support a community discovering, creating and sharing models and image-generated content…
ChatGPT rival Pi launches on Android
December 9, 2023
Inflection AI, the Palo Alto-based startup founded by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, just announced that its AI chatbot ‘Pi’ is now available as a dedicated app on Android.
The move, which is expected to give billions of users…
In the equivalent of a mic drop, open source model startup Mistral AI released a new LLM today with nothing but a torrent link.
It immediately created community buzz for the stark contrast with Google’s Gemini release this week, or what OpenAI’s Andrej Karpathy called in an X-post “an over-rehearsed professional release video talking about a revolution in AI.”
One of Google’s demo…
Google’s Gemini AI launch marred by questions over capabilities
December 9, 2023
Google unveiled its much-anticipated artificial intelligence system Gemini on Wednesday, touting benchmarks suggesting it could compete with OpenAI’s industry-leading GPT-4 model in reasoning abilities. But the launch has quickly been overshadowed by accusations that the…
Deepdub, startup with ties to HBO Max and Fox, launches royalty program for AI voice clones
December 8, 2023
You may not yet have heard of Deepdub, but the audio tech startup — founded in 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel — is hoping that you have heard and will hear more of the voices it is recording and publishing.
Deepdub offers artificial intelligence (AI) tools for dubbing voices…
Google is hoping its new Gemini AI model can revive the fortunes of its conversational assistant Bard after Bard’s lackluster performance failed to match the hype.
Bard launched earlier this year with much fanfare, touted as Google’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude.
However, users quickly found Bard’s responses to be limited, inaccurate and prone to errors. This…
