AI Edition - It's AI Time - 240 [11-12-2024]

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 in accuracy and efficiency. The diffusion model, trained on 40 years of data, uses probabilistic predictions and requires less computing power than traditional methods. It has some limitations in predicting hurricane intensity. GenCast is open-source and will integrate with Google Earth.

Ai Pin maker Humane demos AI software for cars, phones, and smart speakers:
Humane revealed CosmOS, an AI operating system that enhances tech devices with agent-like capabilities.

PlayStation boss: AI will never replace 'human touch':
PlayStation's CEO, Hermen Hulst, says that while AI can revolutionize gaming by automating mundane tasks, it will not replace the human touch in game creation.

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