AI Edition - It's AI Time - 212 [13-11-2024]

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 212

Baidu announces its own pair of AI smart glasses:

Baidu launched a pair of AI-powered smart glasses that uses the company's ERNIE generative AI at its World Conference. Baidu also introduced an AI image generator and a tool for creating software without coding expertise. ByteDance's Doubao is currently China's leading AI chatbot in terms of monthly active users.

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman returns after three months of leave:

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman has returned to OpenAI as president, following a sabbatical, amid significant executive departures and controversy over its shift to a for-profit model. OpenAI recently secured a $157 billion valuation in its latest funding round. The company is facing internal challenges as leaders like Mira Murati, Bob McGrew, and Lilian Weng have left.

European Google rivals partner on search engine infrastructure to counter Big Tech:

Ecosia and Qwant are partnering to build a European search index to reduce reliance on U.S. Big Tech and enhance AI capabilities. The venture utilizes a "privacy-first" approach and aims to support advancements in AI through a new search infrastructure. Alternative search providers are facing rising API costs - this move positions them to better compete amid the growing influence of generative AI in search.

1Price:

1Price.co allows any company to dynamically change prices on autopilot with AI to maximize revenue per customer.

Context Autopilot:

Context Autopilot is a unified AI workspace.

Oasis: A Universe in a Transformer:

Oasis is a fully AI-generated, real-time open-world video game model that uses a 500M parameter foundation model without a game engine. It employs fast transformer inference for generating gameplay and is optimized for Etched's Sohu ASIC to achieve high frame rate efficiencies. While demonstrating significant potential, challenges such as domain generalization and long-context consistency remain.

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