Generative AI
Out of the Black Forest: Black Forest Labs’ Flux.1 outperforms top text-to-image models
A new company with deep roots in generative AI made an eye-catching debut.
Generative AI
Business
Higher Performance, Lower Prices: AI model prices drop as competition heats up
Prices for access to large language models are falling as providers exploit new efficiencies and compete for new customers.
Business
Google Gets Character.AI Co-Founders: Google acquires Character.AI talent and tech in strategic move
Character.AI followed an emerging pattern for ambitious AI startups, trading its leadership to a tech giant in exchange for funds and a strategic makeover.
Machine Learning Research
Art Attack: ArtPrompt, a technique that exploits ASCII art to bypass LLM safety measures
Seemingly an innocuous form of expression, ASCII art opens a new vector for jailbreak attacks on large language models (LLMs), enabling them to generate outputs that their developers tuned them to avoid producing.
Tech & Society
AI-Assisted Applicants Counter AI-Assisted Recruiters: How AI is transforming the hiring process for job seekers and employers
Employers are embracing automated hiring tools, but prospective employees have AI-powered techniques of their own.
Machine Learning Research
Synthetic Data Factory: AgentInstruct, a framework for generating diverse synthetic data for LLM fine-tuning
Researchers increasingly fine-tune models on synthetic data, but generated datasets may not be sufficiently diverse. New work used agentic workflows to produce diverse synthetic datasets.
Tech & Society
Web Data Increasingly Off Limits: Online publishers crack down on AI training data access
Online publishers are moving to stop AI developers from training models on their content.
Tech & Society
Search Gets Conversational: OpenAI launches SearchGPT to rival Google and Microsoft
OpenAI is testing an AI-powered search engine in a bid to compete head-to-head with both Google and its close partner Microsoft Bing.
Tech & Society
The State of the Art Is Open: Meta’s Llama 3.1 outperforms GPT-4 in key areas
Meta raised the bar for large language models with open weights and published details about how it built one that outperforms GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet by some measures.
Machine Learning Research
Expressive Synthetic Talking Heads: Microsoft's VASA-1 delivers more lifelike talking-head videos
Previous systems that produce a talking-head video from a photo and a spoken-word audio clip animate the lips and other parts of the face separately.
Tech & Society
Mini but Mighty: OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini offers big performance at a small price
A slimmed-down version of Open AI’s multimodal flagship packs a low-price punch.
Machine Learning Research
Hallucination Detector: Oxford scientists propose effective method to detect AI hallucinations
Large language models can produce output that’s convincing but false. Researchers proposed a way to identify such hallucinations.