Google's advances in agentic AI and the Gemini 2.0 Flash launch; two startups working on transformer-based models alternatives closed funding rounds; Claude 3.5 Haiku is generally available; Reddit introduced its conversational AI; and more.
Meta has released an open-source neural watermarking model called Video Seal that embeds a robust, imperceptible watermark and optional message in videos. The model aims to address the limitations of existing video watermarking solutions and support responsible AI development.
Vivid Mind, a startup that has developed an AI-assisted voice test capable of detecting early-stage dementia with 90% accuracy, has raised $200,000 in pre-seed funding to continue testing and obtain regulatory approvals for its innovative diagnostic tool.
Anthropic has confirmed the new version of its smallest model, Claude 3.5 Haiku, is now available in the Claude web experience and mobile apps. First announced in October, Claude 3.5 Haiku is intended to deliver Claude 3 Opus' performance at Claude 3 Haiku's speed.
Google is expanding NotebookLM with a paid tier. The company also announced it will use the experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash to power NotebookLM, and that users can enjoy two new features: a redesigned workspace and the capability to interact with the hosts in an Audio Overview.
Cartesia, having raised $27 million in seed funding, is developing innovative AI architectures that enable more efficient, long-memory, and multi-modal intelligence with their breakthrough State Space Model (SSM) technology, exemplified by their hyper-realistic Sonic voice generation model.
Google introduced Project Mariner, an AI agent prototype that can autonomously browse the web alongside other experimental agents like coding AI agent Jules and agents that can act as gaming companions.
Liquid AI, a startup focused on the development of liquid foundation models (LFM) that are efficient and flexible alternatives to the now-standard generative pre-trained Transformer models, has raised a $250M Series A funding round led by AMD that gave the company a $2B valuation.
Google's Deep Research feature for Gemini Advanced allows users to generate comprehensive research reports that can be easily exported and refined, transforming complex research tasks into a matter of minutes.
Phi-4 is Microsoft's latest small language model in the Phi family. The model was trained to focus on tasks requiring complex reasoning skills, such as competition math problems. The model is available for research purposes at the Azure AI Foundry.
Speak, an AI-powered English learning platform specializing in helping its users achieve spoken English fluency, recently secured $78M in Series C funding at a valuation of $1 billion.
Google unveiled Gemini 2.0 Flash, a multimodal AI model with native tool use and multimodal input and output capabilities to be available in early 2025. An experimental model version without multimodal outputs is now available through the API and on the Gemini desktop and web apps.