The UAE's Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is committing $300 million to launch the Falcon Foundation, a non-profit bringing together essential actors in AI to support and develop open-source projects, especially those based on the TII's Falcon models.
OpenAI is planning to roll out a memory feature for ChatGPT. Users can let the chatbot pick up details, or they can ask ChatGPT to remember something in the conversation. Memory will roll out to a select number of users, with plans to eventually make the feature broadly available.
Google has rebranded Bard as Gemini across all platforms and has also introduced a paid Gemini Advanced service. Powered by Google's most capable model, Gemini Advanced is currently available in English. The company also announced an updated Gemini experience in its Android and iOS apps.
To mark its return to Super Bowl advertising, Microsoft has timed the release of a major Copilot update to the launch of its Super Bowl ad. The commercial features people using Copilot to "attain the unattainable". The update expands Designer in Copilot's image generation and editing capabilities.
ChatGPT is getting an Apple Vision Pro app; Meta is working on a new standard to label AI-generated images on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads; FCC declares AI-generated voices 'artificial', making them illegal to use in automated calls.
Synthetaic raised $15 million in a Series B round co-led by Lupa Systems and TitletownTech with participation from IBM Ventures and Booz Allen Hamilton. The company is looking for new market opportunities for its successful RAIC platform.
AMD recently launched its Embedded+ architectural solution for industrial and medical PCs. AMD Embedded+ combines the power-efficient performance of its Ryzen processors with the acceleration delivered by the Versal AI Edge adaptive SOCs onto a single board via a PCIe connection.
Offering a dive into the five-year archive of 'The State of AI Report' to revisit the most notable headlines and predictions that have appeared in the report, 'The State of The State of AI Report' is a must read for anyone wanting to familiarize themselves with the recent history of AI.
AI Makerspace presents part 2 of the Alignment series, Aligning LLMs: RLAIF! They will tackle RLAIF, a technique that attempts to solve the fundamental bottleneck of RLHF, namely, that it’s kind of expensive to collect a ton of data directly from humans!
Accenture's latest Technology Vision report focuses on "human by design" technology. Contrasting the limits of non-human technology and the advent of generative AI as an inclusive, potentially revolutionary technology, the report identifies the trends shaping the future of technology.
South Korea-based startup, Rebellions AI closed its successful Series B with $124M; Figure AI is in talks with Microsoft and OpenAI; Eagle-7B is the strongest multi-language open-source LLM to date; The EU AI Act has practically become a law; and other relevant headlines for this week
AI Makerspace is hosting a deep dive into the OLMo series of models, including a discussion of the Dolma pre-training dataset as the model architectures leveraged for each of the three newly released versions: OLMo-1B, OLMo-7B, and OLMo-7B-Twin-2T!