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Google adds AI image generation to Search — but there’s a catch

October 14, 2023
Google‘s artificial intelligence (AI) image generator for the masses is here … sort of. Hot on the heels of Adobe’s new Firefly 2 AI image generator, and OpenAI releasing its new DALL-E 3 image generator broadly within ChatGPT Plus (and offering it through investor/customer Microsoft’s Bing Image Creator), Google this week announced it, too, was putting a text-to-image generation AI…
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AI Film and AI Games Festival draws 300 to hear about AI taking the director’s seat

October 14, 2023
The second annual HOLL·AI·WOOD AI Film and AI Games Festival took place in San Francisco on Tuesday night and offered us a preview of the future for both passive and interactive entertainment. Edward Saatchi, CEO of Fable Studios and an organizer of the event, said more than 300 attendees from the world of AI, cinema and gaming came to the event at the Alamo Drafthouse cinema. I attended and was…
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NuEnergy.ai secures a patent on its framework for responsible AI governance

October 12, 2023
Ottawa, Ontario (CAN)-based AI governance firm NuEnergy.ai has secured a U.S. patent on its Machine Trust Index (MTI) methodology, a standardized measurement for artificial intelligence (AI) oversight. The milestone comes as competition intensifies in the complex, quickly evolving field of AI visibility and explainability, giving NuEnergy an additional bragging right and legal moat. Its MTI…
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The open-source alternatives to GPT-4 Vision are coming

October 12, 2023
The landscape of generative artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly with the advent of large multimodal models (LMM). These models are transforming the way we interact with AI systems, allowing us to use both images and text as input. OpenAI’s GPT-4 Vision is a leading…
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Energy Dept. funded JetCool nets $17M to disrupt chip cooling as AI workloads surge

October 12, 2023
MIT spinoff JetCool Technologies, a Department of Energy-backed startup working on a direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology for enterprise data centers, today announced $17 million in a series A round of funding, led by Bosch Ventures. The investment, which also saw participation from In-Q-Tel, Raptor Ventures and Schooner Capital, takes the company’s total capital raised to nearly $27…
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