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.
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
AI2 is committed to releasing genuinely open-source models. This means that the model, the pre-training data, training code, model weights, training metrics, and all other data related to the models' development will be released under an Apache 2.0 license.
Semron's chips use capacitors with a memory component. The capacitor's heat-reducing capabilities enable the building of multiple layers of capacitors on a chip, yielding a reduced footprint. The memory component diminishes the noise in calculations, accounting for the chips' energetic efficiency.
AlphaCodium is a code generation flow that improves the performance of LLMs without requiring fine-tuning. The flow can be used with closed and open-source models and was released with reproducible code and an evaluation script, enabling reproducible comparisons.
Competera, a startup specializing in developing AI-powered price optimization services for retailers worldwide, recently closed a $3M seed funding round. Competera plans to use the funds to further its AI capabilities, expand its services, and keep up with demand, especially in the US market.