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Microsoft Absorbs Inflection: Microsoft pays Inflection AI $650 Million, hires most of its staff
Microsoft took over most of the once high-flying chatbot startup Inflection AI in an unusual deal.
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U.S. Deploys AI-Assisted Targeting: Maven, a system that analyzes satellite data to identify targets in real-world conflicts
The United States military is using computer vision to target enemy positions in the Red Sea and elsewhere.
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One Agent, Many Environments: SIMA, a system that understands and plays diverse 3D video games
AI agents are typically designed to operate a particular software environment. Recent work enabled a single agent to take actions in a variety of three-dimensional virtual worlds.
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Deepfakes Become Politics as Usual: Deepfakes dominate as India’s election season unfolds.
Synthetic depictions of politicians are taking center stage as the world’s biggest democratic election kicks off.
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Some Models Pose Security Risk: Security flaws exposed in Hugging Face’s repository and security features
Security researchers sounded the alarm about holes in Hugging Face’s platform.
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India Warns Devs — No Unreliable AI: India advises pre-approval for new AI deployments by tech firms.
India advised major tech companies to seek government approval before they deploy new AI models.
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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.
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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.
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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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Mistral AI Extends Its Portfolio: Mistral enhances AI landscape in Europe with Microsoft partnership and new language models.
European AI champion Mistral AI unveiled new large language models and formed an alliance with Microsoft.
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OpenAI’s Next Act?: OpenAI sets its sights on autonomous digital assistants.
OpenAI is focusing on autonomous agents that take action on a user’s behalf. The maker of ChatGPT is developing applications designed to automate common digital tasks by controlling apps and devices, The Information reported.
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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.