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Watch out, Midjourney! Ideogram launches AI image generator with impressive typography

August 25, 2023
Earlier this week, a new generative AI image startup called Ideogram, founded by former Google Brain researchers, launched with $16.5 million in seed funding led by a16z and Index Ventures. Another image generator? Don’t we have enough to choose from between Midjourney, OpenAI’s Dall-E 2, and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion? Well, Ideogram has a major selling point, as it may have finally…
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Modular looks to boost AI mojo with $100M funding raise

August 25, 2023
Make no mistake about it, there is a lot of excitement and money in early stage AI. A year and a half after being founded, and only four months after the first previews of its technology, AI startup Modular announced today that it has raised $100 million, bringing total funding to date up to $130 million. The new round of funding is led by General Catalyst and includes the participation of GV…
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OpenAI now allows enterprises to fine-tune GPT-3.5 Turbo

August 24, 2023
As more and more enterprises look to power their internal workflows with generative AI, OpenAI is working to make implementation better for them. Case in point: the latest move from the Sam Altman-led company is to offer new built-in support for users to fine-tune its GPT-3.5 Turbo large language model (LLM). The development allows enterprises to bring their proprietary data for training the model…
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Hollywood’s strike battle over AI and 3D scanning has been decades in the making

August 24, 2023
Hollywood has been largely shut down for more than 100 days now, after the union representing screenwriters, the Writers Guild of America (WGA), voted to go on strike on May 1. The writers were soon followed by the actors’ union, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), on July 13, marking the first time in 63 years that both major unions were on…
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