Google has rolled out major upgrades to its Gemini AI, including faster performance with Gemini 1.5 Flash, an expanded context window, new features to combat hallucinations, wider availability across platforms and regions, and access for teenagers, all while emphasizing responsible AI development.
OpenAI has unveiled SearchGPT, a prototype AI-powered search enhancement tool that combines ChatGPT's conversational abilities with web search, aiming to provide comprehensive answers with source links while addressing publisher concerns and gathering user feedback for future improvements.
Microsoft's Bing has introduced a new generative search experience that combines AI-generated content with traditional search results, offering users more comprehensive and dynamic responses to their queries while motivating them to visit original publishers where possible.
Lakera, a company focused on securing generative AI applications, has raised $20 million in Series A funding to develop dynamic security solutions to address the growing need for AI security as enterprise adoption of generative AI is expected to reach 80% by 2026.
Stability AI has launched Stable Video 4D, a revolutionary AI model that transforms single-view videos into eight novel-view videos from different angles, offering potential applications in game development, video editing, and virtual reality.
Mistral AI has launched Mistral Large 2, a powerful new 123 billion parameter language model with multilingual support, advanced coding and reasoning capabilities, and wide availability through major cloud platforms.
The FTC has ordered eight companies to provide information about their surveillance pricing products and services, focusing on their technical implementations, data sources, customer base, and potential impact on consumer privacy, to understand their effects on consumers.
The most recent Meta AI update unlocks multilingual support, introduces new features like "Imagine me" for personalized image generation, improved editing capabilities, and provides limited access to the more advanced Llama 3.1 450B model for complex tasks like math and coding.
Llama 3.1 405B is likely the largest open LLM to be launched recently. Recommended for applications like synthetic data generation and model distillation, the 405B model is complemented by a refresh to the 70B and 8B models with a 128K-token context window and updated capabilities.
Adobe introduced a Text-to-Image feature for Photoshop powered by its Firefly Image 3 Model; and is also beta-testing a Generative Shape Fill feature powered by its Firefly Vector Model. Adobe recently attributed its reported record growth to its subscription model and approach to generative AI.
Cohere has launched Rerank 3 Nimble, a new AI model that enhances enterprise search and RAG systems by offering 3x faster performance, multilingual support, and improved accuracy across various tasks, available on Amazon SageMaker and for on-premise deployments.
AI-powered legal tech startup Harvey has secured $100 million in Series C funding led by GV, reaching a $1.5 billion valuation, and plans to use the investment to enhance its platform and expand globally in the professional services sector.