01.AI, the Chinese startup founded by veteran AI expert and investor Kai-Fu Lee, has released a 34-billion parameter large language model (LLM) that outperforms the 70-billion Llama 2 and 180 billion Falcon open-source counterparts built by Meta Platforms, Inc., and the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi, respectively.
Dubbed Yi-34B, the new AI model supports Chinese and English…
Global leaders scramble to regulate the future of AI
November 6, 2023
There is no doubt that the pace of AI development has accelerated over the last year. Due to rapid advances in technology, the idea that AI could one day be smarter than people has moved from science fiction to plausible near-term reality.
Geoffrey Hinton, a Turing Award…
Elon Musk unveils xAI’s first product Grok, an LLM offering realtime data, efficiency and ‘humor’
November 6, 2023
Following up on his proclamation last week that xAI would begin allowing selected users access to its first AI product, founder Elon Musk on Sunday morning revealed it to the world, and it is very much aligned with his sensibilities and often irreverent and immature sense of…
Alleged OpenAI DevDay leak suggests connections to cloud drives, custom chatbot builder
November 6, 2023
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI‘s first-ever developer conference, DevDay, is scheduled to begin tomorrow, Monday, November 6, and the company’s co-founder and CEO Sam Altman has already hyped on X that there will be “some great stuff to show developers!” But apparent leaks on X and around the web may have already spoiled the surprise.
on november 6, we’ll have some great stuff to show developers!
Do we have enough GPUs to manifest AI’s potential?
November 5, 2023
In 2023, few technologies have garnered as much attention, speculation and promise as AI. We are undoubtedly in the midst of an unprecedented AI hype cycle.
In some ways, the moment is akin to a modern-day gold rush as innovators, investors and entrepreneurs clamor to…
Forget ChatGPT, why Llama and open source AI win 2023
November 5, 2023
Could a furry camelid take the 2023 crown for the biggest AI story of the year? If we’re talking about Llama, Meta’s large language model that took the AI research world by storm in February — followed by the commercial Llama 2 in July and Code Llama in August — I…
Runway, the well-funded New York City-based generative AI video startup, updated its signature text/image/video-to-video model Gen-2 today, and many of its users are collectively freaking out over how good it is. Numerous AI filmmakers have called it “game changing,” and some a “pivotal moment in generative AI.“
Specifically, Gen-2 has undergone “major improvements to both the fidelity…
Today, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced on his social platform X that his new artificial intelligence venture xAI will launch its first model on Saturday, November 4, 2023 to a select group of users.
Tomorrow, @xAI will release its first AI to a select group.
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Hidden Door has unveiled an updated artistic vision behind its new game where generative AI creates the narrative for humans to play.
With this game, which is still in the testing stages, the development team isn’t creating a singular narrative for the game. Rather, it’s…
Luma AI’s Genie lets anyone make 3D objects from text
November 4, 2023
Luma AI, a startup that specializes in creating 3D content from video and text, has unveiled a new tool that allows anyone to generate realistic 3D models in seconds.
The tool, called Genie, is a research preview of an all-new kind of generative 3D foundation model that can create 3D things from natural language prompts.
Genie is currently available for free on Discord, where users can join a…
