Machine Learning Research
Game Worlds on Tap: Genie 2 brings interactive 3D worlds to life
A new model improves on recent progress in generating interactive virtual worlds from still images.
Generative AI
Business
Competitive Performance, Competitive Prices: Amazon introduces Nova models for text, image, and video
Amazon introduced a range of models that confront competitors head-on.
Hardware
Garbage Out: Generative AI and GPU boom spawns growing e-waste problem
Rapid progress in generative AI comes with a hidden environmental cost: mountains of obsolete hardware.
Machine Learning Research
No Game Engine Required: AI creates an interactive Minecraft-like world in real time
A real-time video generator lets you explore an open-ended, interactive virtual world — a video game without a game engine.
Machine Learning Research
Synthetic Data Distorts Models: Could training on generated output doom AI’s future?
Training successive neural networks on the outputs of previous networks gradually degrades performance. Will future models succumb to the curse of recursive training?
Machine Learning Research
Faster, Cheaper Video Generation: Pyramidal Flow Matching, a cost-cutting method for training video generators
Researchers devised a way to cut the cost of training video generators. They used it to build a competitive open source text-to-video model and promised to release the training code.
Business
AI Bromance Turns Turbulent: Microsoft and OpenAI partnership faces strain as both seek less dependence
Once hailed by OpenAI chief Sam Altman as the “best bromance in tech,” the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI is facing challenges as both companies seek greater independence.
Machine Learning Research
Better Text Embeddings: Jina AI launches jina-embeddings-v3, a text embedding model with task-specific adapters
Text embedding models are often used to retrieve text, cluster text, determine similarity between texts, and generate initial embeddings for text classifiers. A new embedding model comes with adapters that specialize it to each of these use cases.
Tech & Society
German Court Says LAION Didn’t Violate Copyrights: LAION wins copyright case in Germany
A German court dismissed a copyright lawsuit against LAION, the nonprofit responsible for large-scale image datasets used to train Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and other image generators.
Machine Learning Research
Voice-to-Voice and More for GPT-4o API: OpenAI unveils tools for speech, vision, and cost-efficiency at DevDay
OpenAI launched a suite of new and updated tools to help AI developers build applications and reduce costs.
Machine Learning Research
Familiar Faces, Synthetic Soundtracks: Meta debuts Movie Gen for text-to-video generation with consistent characters
Meta upped the ante for text-to-video generation with new systems that produce consistent characters and matching soundtracks.
Machine Learning Research
Enabling LLMs to Read Spreadsheets: A method to process large spreadsheets for accurate question answering
Large language models can process small spreadsheets, but very large spreadsheets often exceed their limits for input length. Researchers devised a method that processes large spreadsheets so LLMs can answer questions about them.