Business
Machine Translation in Action: Duolingo turns to AI translation to expand its most popular courses to all 28 user languages
AI is bringing a massive boost in productivity to Duolingo, maker of the most popular app for learning languages.
Culture
Machine Learning Research
Music Generation for Pros: Google upgrades its AI music tools for professional use
Google refreshed its experimental tools for composers and producers.
Machine Learning Research
New Image Generator for OpenAI API: OpenAI launches API access to GPT Image 1, ChatGPT’s viral image generator
ChatGPT’s image generator is available via API.
Tech & Society
Deepfake Developers Appropriate Celebrity Likenesses: Viral video uses AI to depict celebrities without consent, sparking legal debate
A viral deepfake video showed media superstars who appeared to support a cause — but it was made without their participation or permission.
Machine Learning Research
Massively More Training Text: Harvard unveils a million-book corpus for AI training
Harvard University amassed a huge new text corpus for training machine learning models.
Tech & Society
Audrey Tang: AI that unites us
As we approach 2025, my greatest hope for AI is that it will enable prosocial platforms that promote empathy, understanding, and collaboration rather than division.
Tech & Society
David Ding: Generated video with music, sound effects, and dialogue
Last year, we saw an explosion of models that generate either video or audio outputs in high quality. In the coming year, I look forward to models that produce video clips complete with audio soundtracks including speech, music, and sound effects.
Tech & Society
Hanno Basse: Generative AI for artists
Stability AI’s aim is to liberate artists of all trades from the repetitive, mechanical aspects of their work and help them spend the majority of their time on the creative side. So our highest hope for next year is that generative AI will help people to be more creative and productive.
Machine Learning Research
Generative Video Takes Off: Generative video models revolutionize content creation with stunning realism
Video generation exploded in an abundance of powerful models.
Tech & Society
Music Titan Targets AI: Sony Music accuses AI developers of copyright violations.
The world’s second-largest music publisher accused AI developers of potential copyright violations.
Tech & Society
Actors Reach Accord on AI: All about the Hollywood actors and studios' deal on generative AI usage in films and TV
The longest actors’ strike in Hollywood history ended as actors and studios reached an accord on the use of generative AI in making movies.
Tech & Society
Data Disappears: Creative workers don't want AI developers to train models on their work
The latest advances in AI are built on freely available training data. What will happen if it becomes off-limits? Creative workers don’t want AI developers to train models on their works without permission or compensation, or at all. Data is vanishing as they scramble to lock it down.