CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — The Royal Thai Air Force has nominated the Gripen E/F fighter jet to replace the country’s aging F-16A/Bs in a hard-fought contest involving Saab and Lockheed Martin, officials announced on Tuesday.
A service committee deliberated for ten months before recommending the Gripen, though government approval is still required before a contract can be signed. “It can be…
Nvidia researchers have unveiled “Eagle,” a new family of artificial intelligence models that significantly improves machines’ ability to understand and interact with visual information.
The research, published on arXiv, demonstrates major advancements in tasks ranging…
Open-source AI is finally closing in on the dominance of closed-source. Today, Meta, one of the leading players in the open model category, shared a mid-year update claiming that the adoption of its Llama family of models has surged to new heights, especially since the…
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…
The Washington State Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) issued a consumer alert on Tuesday, stating that it has received a complaint regarding possible fraudulent activities by a cryptocurrency trading platform named BIB. An investor reported that after transferring…
Sony Block Solutions Labs, an initiative by Sony Group, recently introduced Soneium, an Ethereum layer two (L2) blockchain. Designed to seamlessly connect Web3 and Web2, Soneium promises enhanced scalability, efficiency, and a developer-friendly environment. The project’s…
Ethereum Foundation Defends $96.9M Transfer Amidst Criticism
August 29, 2024
On Aug. 23, 2024, the Ethereum Foundation made a significant transaction by transferring 35,000 ETH, valued at approximately $96.9 million based on current ether rates. The transaction sparked some criticism from the crypto community, with a few voices raising concerns about the foundation’s transparency. However, the foundation’s executive director quickly clarified that the transfer was…
Even while some visual artists seek to fight back against generative AI companies in court, other mainstream artists are rapidly embracing the tech and using it to create new projects in their aesthetic.
Case in point: earlier this week, pop star The Weekend, real name Abel…
OpenAI strikes content deal with Condé Nast, raising questions about future of publishing
August 26, 2024
Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has reached an agreement with Condé Nast, the publisher behind Vogue, The New Yorker, and Wired, in a move that could reshape the media landscape.
The multi-year partnership grants OpenAI access to Condé Nast’s extensive content…
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…
