Lightricks, the company behind popular creative apps like Facetune and VideoLeap, announced today the release of its most powerful AI video generation model to date. The LTX Video 13-billion-parameter model (LTXV-13B) generates high-quality AI video up to 30 times faster than comparable models while running on consumer-grade hardware rather than expensive enterprise GPUs.
The model introduces…
In my first stint as a machine learning (ML) product manager, a simple question inspired passionate debates across functions and leaders: How do we know if this product is actually working? The product in question that I managed catered to both internal and external…
Databricks is tackling the challenge of AI model performance by addressing the critical issue of data labeling. While labeled data has long been essential for training AI models, enterprises often face a significant bottleneck—not in technology, but in the lengthy process…
Breaking down Grok 3: The AI model that could redefine the industry
February 20, 2025
Less than two years since its launch, xAI has shipped what could arguably be the most advanced AI model to date. Grok 3 matches or beats the most advanced models on all key benchmarks as well as the user-evaluated Chatbot Arena, and its training has not even been completed yet.
We still don’t have a lot of details about Grok 3, as the team has not yet released a paper or technical report. But…
Elon Musk just released an AI that’s smarter than ChatGPT — here’s why that matters
February 19, 2025
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has unveiled Grok 3, its latest AI model that the company claims outperforms leading competitors across key technical benchmarks. The announcement marks a significant escalation in the race to develop more powerful AI…
‘Personalized, unrestricted’ AI lab Nous Research launches first toggle-on reasoning model: DeepHermes-3
February 17, 2025
AI reasoning models — those that produce “chains-of-thought” (CoT) in text and reflect on their own analysis to try and catch errors midstream before outputting a response — are all the rage now thanks to the likes of DeepSeek and OpenAI’s “o” series. As posted…
AI Agents Are Coming: Decoding Your Personality
February 17, 2025
When I was a kid there were four AI agents in my life. Their names were Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde and they tried their best to hunt me down. This was the 1980s and the agents were the four colorful ghosts in the iconic arcade game Pac-Man.
By today’s standards they weren’t particularly smart, yet they seemed to pursue me with cunning and intent. This was decades before neural networks were…
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI this morning announced it has begun training its new “frontier model” and formed a new Safety and Security Committee led by current board members Bret Taylor (OpenAI board chair and co-founder of customer service startup Sierra AI, former Google Maps…
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