Google is expanding Gemini access to younger education users with enhanced safety features, while also introducing new AI-powered tools like Learning Coach, Read Along, and LearnLM-powered features to support personalized learning experiences and assist educators in content creation and management.
Synthesia 2.0 aims to revolutionize business video communications with enhanced AI avatars, an improved AI Video Assistant, a new AI Screen Recorder, advanced translation capabilities, and an interactive video player, all while prioritizing AI safety and responsible development.
OpenAI acquired Multi, a collaborative AI workspace platform, shortly after its Rockset acquisition, potentially to enhance its enterprise offerings and compete with Anthropic's Artifacts, as nearly the entire Multi team joins OpenAI and the platform plans to sunset its services by July 24, 2024.
DeepMind's Generative Media team has developed a video-to-audio (V2A) technology; Elevenlabs created a demo that allows users to generate sound effects for any video; Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet; SoftBank is offering customers a one-year Perplexity Pro trial; and more.
OpenAI acquired Rockset, a real-time search and analytics database company, to enhance its data retrieval infrastructure for AI applications. As a result of the acquisition, some Rockset team members will join OpenAI, leading Rockset to support customers in transitioning off its platform.
AI language learning startup Speak secured $20M in Series B-3 funding, reaching a $500M valuation, to further develop its voice-to-voice interface that has helped over 10 million users across 40+ countries learn English through pattern recognition and repetition rather than memorization.
Paris-based AI startup Poolside.ai reportedly seeks to raise $400 million at a $2 billion valuation, potentially joining other French AI companies in securing substantial funding.
Anthropic has launched Claude 3.5 Sonnet, a new AI model that outperforms competitors and its predecessor in various tasks. Claude 3.5 Sonnet offers enhanced intelligence, speed, improved vision capabilities, and new features like Artifacts, while maintaining a strong focus on safety and privacy.
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever has launched Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), a new for-profit AI company focused solely on developing safe superintelligent AI systems using an engineering-based approach instead of the traditional guardrails enforced on most AI systems.
Microsoft's Azure AI team has released Florence-2, a versatile vision foundation model available on Hugging Face, which uses a unified prompt-based approach to excel at various vision and vision-language tasks, outperforming larger task-specific models in several benchmarks.
Elevenlabs released a demo that showcases the capabilities of its Texts to Sounds Effects API. The demo enables users to add sound effects to any video they upload. The company also announced partnerships and collaborations with PocketFM, AnyTopic, and the creative production firm Tool.
Amazon has made MLflow, an open-source MLOps platform, generally available as a fully managed capability on Amazon SageMaker, offering streamlined ML lifecycle management with comprehensive experiment tracking, unified model governance, and efficient server management across most AWS Regions.