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7 months ago
Apple and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne released a public demo of the 4M AI model on Hugging Face Spaces, seven months after open-sourcing it. The 4M model processes and generates content across multiple modalities, marking a shift from Apple's secretive R&D approach. This aims to attract developers and foster an AI ecosystem. The demo's timing aligns with Apple's AI advancements and market performance.
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Luma AI's new AI video generator, Dream Machine, has been overwhelmed with traffic since its public beta launch. Despite its promise of generating videos at a frame per second, users have faced long waits due to high demand. Luma AI is working to increase capacity. The startup, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, has raised over $70 million and previously released a text-to-3D asset generator. Dream Machine has impressed early testers and is seen as a strong competitor to OpenAI’s Sora.
Marketing Auditor is a comprehensive, automated tool designed to revolutionize the process of auditing digital marketing campaigns. It supports platforms like Google Ads and Google Analytics, performing 200+ automated checks to uncover growth opportunities and deliver actionable insights. Users can generate professional, white-labeled reports customized to their branding and preferred formats like Google Slides and PowerPoint.
8 months ago
Meta and Google researchers have developed a new method for automatically curating high-quality datasets for self-supervised learning (SSL). This technique uses embedding models and clustering algorithms to create large, diverse, and balanced datasets without manual annotation. Experiments show that models trained on these auto-curated datasets perform nearly as well as those trained on manually curated ones, reducing costs and effort in dataset curation.
9 months ago
OpenAI has started training a new frontier model and formed a Safety and Security Committee led by board members Bret Taylor, Adam D’Angelo, Nicole Seligman, and Sam Altman. The committee will evaluate safety processes over the next 90 days. The new model, possibly GPT-5, won't be released until after this period. The committee's lack of independence has drawn criticism. OpenAI has faced recent controversies, including executive resignations.
Elon Musk’s xAI startup announced a $6 billion round of funding, confirming reports from April. The series B investment includes participation from major venture capital firms. The funding, raised at a pre-money valuation of $18 billion, is one of the largest series B investments in AI. xAI plans to use the funds to enhance its Grok-1 model and compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Musk aims to build a massive supercomputer by 2025.
9 months ago
New research from the University of Chicago shows GPT-4 can analyze financial statements with accuracy surpassing professional analysts. Using anonymized data and "chain-of-thought" prompts, GPT-4 achieved a 60% accuracy in predicting future earnings, higher than the 53-57% range of human analysts. This suggests LLMs like GPT-4 could play a central role in financial decision-making, despite challenges in numerical analysis.
9 months ago
Meta introduces Chameleon, a state-of-the-art multimodal model designed to natively integrate various modalities. Unlike traditional models, Chameleon uses an early-fusion token-based architecture, transforming images into discrete tokens and using a unified vocabulary. Experiments show Chameleon excels in tasks like image captioning and visual question answering, while remaining competitive in text-only tasks.
9 months ago
Despite Google's impressive AI advancements, Microsoft holds an edge in the AI race due to its developer focus. Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI provides comprehensive APIs and robust support, simplifying AI integration for developers. Google, while technically superior, is seen as more intimidating for developers. The AI race's outcome will likely be determined by which company can most effectively rally developers, and currently, Microsoft leads.
9 months ago
OpenAI is developing 'Media Manager', a tool set for release in 2025 that will allow creators to control the use of their works in machine learning research and training. This tool is a response to criticism and lawsuits against AI companies for data scraping without consent. It aims to provide creators with granular control, especially those who post on platforms they don't control. The pricing is yet to be announced.
