Tech & Society
Anthropic Ups the Ante: Anthropic introduces Claude 3, a new trio of multimodal models.
Anthropic announced a suite of large multimodal models that set new states of the art in key benchmarks.
Generative AI
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Google Tests Generative News Tools: Google funds newsrooms to test AI-powered article generation tools.
Google is paying newsrooms to use a system that helps transform press releases into articles.
Tech & Society
Google Releases Open Source LLMs: All we know about Google's Gemma-7B and Gemma-2B models
Google asserted its open source bona fides with new models. Google released weights for Gemma-7B, an 8.5 billion-parameter large language model intended to run GPUs, and Gemma-2B, a 2.5 billion-parameter version intended for deployment on CPUs and edge devices.
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Context Is Everything: Gemini 1.5 Pro, a leap in multimodal AI amid controversy over v1.0
An update of Google’s flagship multimodal model keeps track of colossal inputs, while an earlier version generated some questionable outputs.
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Generated Video Gets Real(er): OpenAI’s Sora, a new player in text-to-video generation
OpenAI’s new video generator raises the bar for detail and realism in generated videos — but the company released few details about how it built the system.
Machine Learning Research
Better Images, Less Training: Würstchen, a speedy, high-quality image generator
The longer text-to-image models train, the better their output — but the training is costly. Researchers built a system that produced superior images after far less training.
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GPT-4 Biothreat Risk is Low: Study finds GPT-4 no more risky than online search in aiding bioweapon development.
GPT-4 poses negligible additional risk that a malefactor could build a biological weapon, according to a new study. OpenAI compared the ability of GPT-4 and web search to contribute to the creation of a dangerous virus or bacterium. The large language model was barely more helpful than the web.
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High Yields for Small Farms: AI elevates chili farming in India with smarter yields.
Indian farmers used chatbots and computer vision to produce higher yields at lower costs. The state government of Telangana in South India partnered with agricultural aid organization Digital Green to provide AI tools to chili farmers.
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Standard for Media Watermarks: C2PA introduces watermark tech to combat media misinformation.
An alliance of major tech and media companies introduced a watermark designed to distinguish real from fake media starting with images. The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) offers an open standard that marks media files with information about their creation and editing.
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OpenAI Expands Platform Play: OpenAI releases the GPT store, a curated chatbot marketplace.
The GPT Store is open for business, providing curated, searchable access to millions of chatbots tailored for specific purposes.
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AI Busts Out at CES: CES 2024 showcased AI's reach beyond browsers and smartphones.
The 2024 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas showcased products that take advantage of increasingly powerful, increasingly accessible AI capabilities. Many debuts at the massive CES show showed that large language models (LLMs) are moving beyond browsers and smartphones.
Machine Learning Research
Text or Images, Input or Output: GILL, an innovative approach to multimodal model training
GPT-4V introduced a large multimodal model that generates text from images and, with help from DALL-E 3, generates images from text. However, OpenAI hasn’t fully explained how it built the system. A separate group of researchers described their own method.