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Google open-sourced its SynthID Text watermarking tool
Google has open-sourced SynthID Text, a watermarking tool that modifies language models' token probability distributions to create detectable patterns in AI-generated text, making it available through its Responsible Generative AI Toolkit and Hugging Face's Transformers library.
Oct 25, 2024
Anthropic's three major announcements: new models, computer use API, and an analysis tool
Anthropic announced several major updates this week, including the launch of Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Haiku models, improvements in agentic capabilities, a new computer use API public beta, and a data analysis tool for Claude.ai that lets the assistant write and run code in a sandbox.
Oct 25, 2024
Perplexity AI hit with new lawsuit as it looks to raise more funding
News Corp's Dow Jones and The New York Post are suing Perplexity AI for copyright infringement. The lawsuit condemns Perplexity for diverting essential internet traffic from news outlets while freeriding on protected content obtained illicitly from those same outlets.
Oct 23, 2024
Alcon Entertainment is suing Tesla and Warner Bros for willful copyright circumvention
Alcon Entertainment is suing Tesla and Elon Musk for allegedly using AI-generated imagery that mimicked Blade Runner 2049's aesthetic at Tesla's 'We Robot' event after being denied permission to use actual footage from the film.
Oct 23, 2024
DataCrunch's $13M raise will help it become an affordable green energy-powered hyperscaler
DataCrunch, a Nordic AI computing provider, has secured $13 million in seed funding to expand its renewable energy-powered infrastructure and become Europe's first green AI-focused hyperscaler.
Oct 23, 2024
Weekly AI Highlights Review: October 15–22
Two AI voice startups closed funding rounds, Manifest is using AI to combat the loneliness epidemic, Galileo raised $45M in Series B funding, the creators of Outlines started dottxt, Google upgraded its Shopping and NotebookLM products, Mistral launched two tiny models, and more.
Oct 22, 2024
Meta has shared another round of research artifacts, including SAM 2.1 and Spirit LM
Meta FAIR has released several new open-source AI models and research tools, including an improved SAM 2.1 for image segmentation and Spirit LM for seamless speech-text integration, along with tools for LLM acceleration, cryptography, materials discovery, and cross-lingual processing.
Oct 21, 2024
The social media platform X may be looking to license its content to third-party AI companies
X has updated its Terms and Privacy Policy, suggesting the platform is considering licensing user content to third parties, including for AI model training. The platform also updated its Terms of Service, committing anyone accepting them to paying liquidated damages if caught scraping X's content.
Oct 21, 2024
DeepMind researchers trained an AI to see if it could mediate discussions on divisive topics
Google DeepMind researchers developed the Habermas Machine (HM), an AI system designed to mediate group discussions by generating consensus statements. The research team found strong endorsement of the AI-generated statements and a shift in the groups' opinion to the majority view after the process.
Oct 21, 2024
NotebookLM is no longer an experiment and it is getting a Business edition
Google recently announced that it no longer considers NotebookLM an 'Experimental' product, as it introduced controls that enable users to customize the Audio Overviews based on their Notebooks. The company also announced an upcoming NotebookLM Business product.
Oct 20, 2024
dottxt is focused on making LLM outputs more predictable
dottxt, founded by the creators of the popular Outlines library, has raised $11.9 million to date to develop advanced structured generation solutions for large language models, aiming to ensure more reliable and predictable AI outputs.
Oct 20, 2024
Lightmatter raised $400M to advance its photonic interconnect technology
Lightmatter secured $400 million in Series D funding to accelerate the deployment of its Passage product. Passage uses photonics technology to overcome chip interconnection bottlenecks in AI and HPC workloads, potentially revolutionizing data center performance and efficiency.
Oct 20, 2024