It's AI Time

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 242   $1m K Prize launches: Andy Konwinski has launched a new prize for an open source AI agent that can get 90% on a private contamination free SWE agent benchmark. The competition is hosted on Kaggle and runs for the next 3 months. OpenAI Introduces Advanced Video Mode: OpenAI's 6th announcement day introduces video in advanced voice mode, allowing users to share their live videos and screens with ChatGPT. AI's Role in Safeguarding 2024 Elections: Anthropic discusses how AI technologies can be deployed to ensure the integrity of the 2024 elections, focusing on detecting disinformation and enhancing cybersecurity. Google's Model Outperforms Top Weather Forecast Systems: The new GenCast AI model advances weather forecasting by using high-resolution ensemble predictions to provide faster and more accurate forecasts up to 15 days ahead. Summarization Tool for Compressed Recaps: A tool for generating compressed recaps using cutting-edge sum...

 OpenAI Makes Canvas Available to Everyone: Canvas, OpenAI's editing tool originally introduced in October, is now available to everyone. It now supports getting feedback and editing in the form of comments. Yelp adds AI-powered review insights to restaurants: Yelp's latest updates bring AI-powered features like Review Insights to help users explore businesses more effectively. The platform also enhances discovery tools, simplifies connecting with service providers, and introduces AI-driven ad optimization to benefit business owners. Growl is an AI interactive boxing coach to punch up your family workouts: Growl has raised $4.75 million to develop an AI-powered interactive boxing coach designed for at-home family workouts. Utilizing advanced AI, multi-camera 3D motion tracking, and edge computing, Growl delivers real-time, personalized fitness guidance. The system combines immersive technology with gaming experiences, offering a comprehensive workout across various fitness leve...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 240 WaveForms $40M seed round: WaveForms is an audio LLM company working to solve the Turing test for audio AI. It raised $40M in seed funding at a $200M valuation. The company was founded by Alexis Conneau, who led the development of ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode. Sora is here: OpenAI's video generation model has launched and is available to Pro subscribers. AI Helps Researchers Dig Through Old Maps to Find Lost Oil and Gas Wells: Researchers at Berkeley Lab use AI to identify undocumented oil and gas wells by analyzing historical USGS maps. Their AI tool has identified over 1,300 potential undocumented wells across California and Oklahoma. This AI-driven mapping is part of a broader initiative to mitigate methane emissions and hazards from orphaned wells. DeepMind's GenCast AI is really good at forecasting the weather: DeepMind's GenCast AI outperforms existing weather forecasting systems, like ECMWF's, with significant improvements...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 238 OpenAI's Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Research Program: Reinforcement Fine-Tuning allows developers to train AI models to excel at specific, expert-level tasks by grading their responses against reference answers. OpenAI 12 days of “ship-mas”: OpenAI's 12 days of “ship-mas” has officially begun, with the company set to reveal some new features, products, and demos during all 12 days starting December 5, just a few days shy of the second anniversary of ChatGPT's explosive launch in 2022. Google's new generative AI video model is now available: Google's Veo, a generative AI video model, is now available via Vertex AI for businesses. It creates high-quality 1080p videos from text or images. Veo includes safeguards and DeepMind's SynthID digital watermark to address copyright and misinformation concerns. Google has expanded access to Imagen 3 for text-to-image generation on Google Cloud, with new features for brand customization. ...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 237 Generative AI for Design : MIT researchers have improved techniques for creating realistic 3D models using generative AI, which could help designers and engineers produce more accurate and efficient designs for various applications, including architecture and gaming. AI-Powered Processors : A photonic processor developed by MIT is showing promise for ultrafast and energy-efficient AI computations. This innovation could enable real-time deep learning applications in areas like autonomous driving and large-scale simulations. New Applications in Healthcare : Advances in machine learning are being used to ensure healthcare AI models are fair and robust, reducing biases in diagnostics and treatment predictions. Climate Visualization with AI : Researchers are using AI to generate realistic satellite images of future flooding scenarios. This tool aims to help communities better visualize and prepare for environmental changes. Regulatory Focus...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 236 OpenAI’s GPT-4o Update : OpenAI introduced an updated version of its ChatGPT model, GPT-4o. This iteration focuses on enhancing multi-step reasoning, detailed explanations, and image generation capabilities within conversations. These improvements are designed to refine communication and broaden its application across various tasks. Microsoft Azure OpenAI Updates : Azure OpenAI has revamped its payment models for provisioned resources, offering flexibility with hourly and reservation-based billing. This shift allows customers to better manage commitments and capacity needs while accessing the latest AI models. Generative AI Expansion : The broader AI landscape continues to emphasize multimodal AI, including advancements in image and text generation. The focus is on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), enhancing the accuracy and depth of responses in complex AI applications.

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 235 Perplexity Expanding It's Publisher's Program: Perplexity has added over a dozen international news organizations to its Publishers' Program, offering tools, revenue sharing, and support to strengthen collaboration with global media. DeepMind's Genie 2 can generate interactive worlds that look like video games: DeepMind's Genie 2 is an advanced AI model that generates diverse, interactive 3D worlds from images and text descriptions. The model is particularly adept at simulating complex elements like physics and NPC behavior, setting it apart from similar models by maintaining scene consistency. Positioned as a research tool, Genie 2 is designed for prototyping interactive experiences and evaluating AI agents. New Fish Audio Model: The newest Fish Audio 1.5 is currently #2 on Text To Speech Leaderboards behind ElevenLabs. It supports voice cloning and is fast to run, although the output quality seems hit or miss. OpenAI partners...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 234 A System of Agents brings Service-as-Software to life: AI is transitioning software from a tool to autonomous agents capable of executing tasks traditionally performed by humans, with a projected $4.6 trillion market opportunity. Innovations such as LLMs and agents enable AI systems to process unstructured data, make decisions, and act autonomously across sectors like sales and healthcare. The future of AI involves Systems of Agents that collaborate and learn from each other, functioning like a highly skilled team to deliver services. Google launches the London AI Campus: The AI Campus is an educational pilot to support and diversify the next generation of local AI talent. Bluesky's open API means anyone can scrape your data for AI training: Bluesky isn't using user content to train AI, but third parties like Hugging Face have accessed posts for machine learning research. This highlights the public nature of user posts and the challenges in c...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 233 Eleven Labs Conversational AI: Eleven Labs has launched a new conversational AI service that is more of an end-to-end product for building conversational agents. It uses a variety of LLMs on the backend while integrating seamlessly to a wide variety of specialized voices. Claude Models Now Faster and Smarter on AWS Trainium2: Claude models are being optimized for AWS' advanced Trainium2 AI chips. This will enable faster and more efficient performance. Claude 3.5 Haiku is now available on AWS Trainium2 and model distillation in Amazon Bedrock. AI Music Is More Realistic Than Ever: Meet Suno's New Model: Suno has become the fifth most-used generative AI service with its realistic AI music model V4, despite facing a copyright lawsuit. The model improves user experience by focusing on human preferences, offering enhanced sound quality and advanced composition skills. Suno aims to advance AI-human music collaboration while addressing copyright ...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 232 Ads might be coming to ChatGPT: OpenAI is considering an advertising business model to help support its costly AI tool development. Despite no current active plans for ads, the idea remains on the table as a potential revenue source. CEO Sam Altman considers ads a last resort and has expressed discomfort at the possibility of combining ads and AI. The race is on to make AI agents do your online shopping for you: Tech companies are developing AI shopping agents to automate online purchases, potentially reshaping the retail industry. Perplexity's current model faces operational challenges. Companies like OpenAI, Google, and Amazon are also exploring AI purchasing capabilities. These developments aim to streamline shopping but raise questions about privacy, retailer interactions, and the evolving online shopping experience. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Thoughts on AI Agents, Automation, And The Future of Your Job: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff e...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 231   Elon Musk Seeks to Block OpenAI's For-Profit Conversion Again: Elon Musk's legal team has filed a motion to prevent OpenAI from transitioning to a for-profit model citing alleged antitrust violations and financial risks. The motion claims CEO Sam Altman's actions could leave the company unable to pay damages if Musk wins his lawsuit. Perplexity mulls getting into hardware: Perplexity's CEO plans to develop a "simple, under $50" AI device for voice-to-voice interactions. This aligns with a broader trend of AI startups exploring hardware to enable new interactions, although historical challenges in AI hardware highlight risks. Perplexity, with substantial funding, aims to avoid pitfalls faced by others like Humane's Ai Pin. Inflection AI CEO says it's done trying to make next-generation AI models: Inflection AI shifted its focus from developing cutting-edge AI models to providing AI tools for enterprise customers,...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 230 Generative AI Risks and Governance : Organizations are increasingly focusing on addressing the risks of generative AI, particularly inaccuracy and intellectual property (IP) infringement. While these risks are gaining attention, cybersecurity remains a consistent concern. However, efforts to mitigate labor displacement risks have declined compared to previous years. Some organizations are moving to establish better AI governance frameworks, though widespread adoption is still limited. Smaller, More Efficient Models : The AI industry is leaning towards smaller models due to rising GPU costs and hardware shortages. Techniques like Low Rank Adaptation (LoRA) and Quantization are becoming popular, allowing efficient fine-tuning and deployment of AI models, particularly for resource-constrained scenarios. AI Applications Across Industries : Companies are leveraging generative AI to enhance productivity and revenue, particularly in areas like supply...