AI Edition - It's AI Time - 31 [15-05-2024]

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 31


OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is officially leaving

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's co-founder and chief scientist, is officially leaving the company. Sutskever helped lead the coup against Sam Altman and then later changed his mind. His employment status had been ambiguous since the ouster. Jakub Pachocki, the company's director of research, will be OpenAI's new chief scientist.


Google's invisible AI watermark will help identify generative text and video

Google has enhanced its AI content watermarking technology, SynthID, to now mark AI-generated text and video. This technology is crucial for distinguishing between AI-created and authentic content to prevent misuse, such as spreading misinformation or generating nonconsensual media.


xAI Nears $10B Deal To Rent Oracle's Servers

Elon Musk's AI startup xAI is negotiating a potential $10 billion deal to rent cloud servers from Oracle, aiming to become one of Oracle's largest customers and rival AI offerings from OpenAI and Google.


Google I/O

Google announced many new features, including Gemini Flash, Veo video generation, Imagen 3, and its newest assistant, Project Astra, at I/O 2024. In all, there are an impressive number of improvements, including 2m token context length, dramatically cheaper models, and improved multimodality.


What OpenAI Did

GPT-4o multimodal abilities, integrating vision and voice, promise significant advances in how AI interacts with the world, paving the way for AI to become a more ubiquitous presence in daily life.


Google is redesigning its search engine — and it's AI all the way down

Billions of Google users will soon see AI-generated summaries at the top of many of their search results. The AI Overviews are designed to take out the hard work of searching so users can focus on the important things. Google announced several other AI-powered features at its I/O developer conference, such as a feature in Lens that lets users search by capturing a video, a planning tool that can generate trip itineraries and meal plans with a single query, and suggestions within search results. While similar products have come under scrutiny for summarizing content and not directing users to the actual sources of information, Google says that early data shows that the new way of searching will actually lead to more clicks to the open web.

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