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Meta Connect 2024: Meta AI's voice mode, visual search, and automated content generation
Meta announced significant upgrades to Meta AI, including voice chat optionally powered by celebrity voice clones, multimodal capabilities enabling image processing and editing, live translation for Reels, expanded 'Imagine me' features, and AI-generated content for social media feeds.
Sep 28, 2024
Meta Connect 2024: Orion, Quest 3S, and new features for the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses
At Meta Connect 2024, Meta unveiled various AR/VR devices, including the Orion AR glasses concept, an affordable Quest 3S headset, and AI-enhanced Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, showcasing the company's commitment to advancing consumer AR technology.
Sep 28, 2024
Meta Connect 2024: Llama 3.2 brings open multimodal 11B and 90B to the race
Meta announced Llama 3.2, introducing multimodal capabilities to its 11B and 90B models for image analysis tasks. Meta also launched 1B and 3B models for edge devices. The 90B and 11B models will not be available in Europe, following EU regulators' concerns about Meta's data collection practices.
Sep 28, 2024
Researchers are leveraging AI to identify geoglyphs near Nazca Lines in Peru
Researchers using AI and drone technology have discovered 303 new geoglyphs near Peru's Nazca Lines in just six months, revolutionizing archaeological research and providing new insights into ancient Peruvian cultures.
Sep 28, 2024
AI2's Molmo is bridging the gap between closed and open-source vision-capable models
The Allen Institute for AI has introduced Molmo, a family of open-source multimodal AI models that rival or surpass proprietary systems in performance, featuring novel data collection methods and unique pointing capabilities, with plans for full release of weights, datasets, and code.
Sep 27, 2024
OpenAI's Advanced Voice Mode is finally available for ChatGPT Plus and Team users
OpenAI is expanding its Advanced Voice Mode for ChatGPT to more paying customers, introducing new voices, improved functionality, and customization features, while addressing previous concerns and limitations.
Sep 27, 2024
Snap now leverages Gemini on Vertex AI to power generative AI experiences on MyAI
Snap Inc. has partnered with Google Cloud to integrate Gemini's multimodal AI capabilities into Snapchat's My AI chatbot to enable more innovative features for its 850 million monthly active users.
Sep 26, 2024
Letta, a UC Berkeley spin-off, emerged from stealth with $10M in seed funding
Letta, a startup emerging from stealth with $10 million in funding, aims to revolutionize AI development by offering an open-source, model-agnostic platform that enables the creation of stateful AI agents and APIs.
Sep 26, 2024
Cloudflare's tools enable websites to monitor and control how AI model providers access their content
Cloudflare has launched AI Audit, a new tool that empowers website owners to monitor, control, and potentially monetize how AI models interact with their content, aiming to rebalance the relationship between content creators and AI companies.
Sep 25, 2024
Weekly AI Highlights Review: September 17–24
Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman on the promise of AI; Microsoft bought a lot of nuclear-generated electricity; Amazon launched new AI features for independent sellers; LinkedIn opted users into data collection; YouTube and Snap launched new AI features; Runway and Lionsgate are collaborating; and more.
Sep 24, 2024
Black Forest Labs reportedly looks to raise about $100M at a $1B valuation
Black Forest Labs, a startup founded by experts in image diffusion models and the creator of the FLUX.1 model suite, is reportedly seeking to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, likely by leveraging its collaboration with X and promising upcoming text-to-video generation models.
Sep 23, 2024
A deal with Microsoft will support the restart of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant
Microsoft signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Constellation Energy to reopen the Three Mile Island Unit 1 nuclear reactor as the Crane Clean Energy Center, aiming to power its AI-driven data centers with carbon-free energy and support its goal of becoming carbon-negative by 2030.
Sep 23, 2024