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Rise of the AI PC: Microsoft launches AI-driven Copilot+ PCs
Generative AI plays a starring role in the latest Windows PCs.
Generative AI
Machine Learning Research
Interpreting Image Edit Instructions: Meta’s Emu Edit improves text-to-image generation with task classification.
The latest text-to-image generators can alter images in response to a text prompt, but their outputs often don’t accurately reflect the text. They do better if, in addition to a prompt, they’re told the general type of alteration they’re expected to make.
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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
2 Million Tokens of Context & More: Google’s I/O developers’ conference reveals new AI models, features, and upgrades.
Google’s annual I/O developers’ conference brought a plethora of updates and new models.
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Faster, Cheaper Multimodality: All about GPT-4o, OpenAI’s latest multimodal model
OpenAI’s latest model raises the bar for models that can work with common media types in any combination.
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Why ChatGPT Acts That Way: OpenAI introduces guidelines for model behavior, seeks public feedback
OpenAI pulled back the curtain on revised rules that will guide its models.
Machine Learning Research
Streamlined Inference: Deja Vu, a method that boosts LLM speed by activating only essential neural parts
It’s not necessary to activate all parts of a large language model to process a given input. Using only the necessary parts saves processing.
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OpenAI Licenses News Archives: OpenAI licenses Financial Times archive in fifth deal with major news publishers
OpenAI has been making deals with publishers to gain access to high-quality training data. It added Financial Times to the list.
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Coding Assistance Start to Finish: GitHub previews Copilot Workspace for end-to-end software development
GitHub Copilot’s latest features are designed to help manage software development from plan to pull request.
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Think D̶i̶f̶f̶e̶r̶e̶n̶t̶ Small: Apple releases OpenELM, a family of smaller large language models.
Apple is thinking small — very small — with a new family of open large language models.
Machine Learning Research
A 3D Mesh From One 2D Image: The combination of video diffusion and Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) can produce a 3D mesh from a single image
Video diffusion provides a new basis for generating 3D models.
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Songs Made to Order: Text-to-music services evolve with Udio and Suno’s customized song creations.
A new breed of audio generator produces synthetic performances of songs in a variety of popular styles.