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The Southern District of New York has dismissed a copyright lawsuit brought by online news outlets Raw Story Media and AlterNet Media against artificial intelligence company OpenAI. The plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI violated copyrights by using scraped news content in its training data without preserving copyright management information (CMI) as required under Section 1202(b) of …
Two recent studies provide the first empirical evidence that having AI models debate each other can help a human or machine judge discern the truth, reports Nash Weerasekera for Quanta Magazine. The approach, first proposed in 2018, involves two expert language models presenting arguments on a given question to a less-informed judge, who then decides …
Geoffrey Hinton, Jensen Huang, and Fei-Fei Li were instrumental in launching the deep learning revolution, despite facing skepticism from colleagues, Timothy B. Lee writes. Hinton spent decades promoting neural networks and developed the backpropagation algorithm for training them efficiently, as detailed in Cade Metz’s book “Genius Makers.” Huang, CEO of Nvidia, recognized the potential of …
ByteDance, the Chinese company behind TikTok, has revealed its X-Portrait 2 AI system, which can transform still photographs into convincing video performances. The technology, trained on TikTok’s vast database of user-generated videos, captures nuanced facial expressions and movements with unprecedented realism, as demonstrated by its ability to mirror iconic movie scenes. According to an article …
Nous Research, an AI research group, has launched Nous Chat, a user-facing chatbot that provides access to its large language model, Hermes 3-70B. According to an article by Carl Franzen, the chatbot offers a familiar interface similar to ChatGPT and allows users to interact with the model without needing to run the code themselves. While …
Mistral AI, a French artificial intelligence startup, has released a new content moderation API capable of detecting harmful content across nine categories in 11 languages. The API, powered by Mistral’s fine-tuned Ministral 8B model, offers both raw text and conversational content analysis, as reported by Michael Nuñez for VentureBeat. This launch positions Mistral to compete …
Microsoft has released Magentic-One, a new open-source infrastructure that enables a single AI model to manage multiple helper agents working together to complete complex, multi-step tasks in various scenarios. According to a paper by Microsoft researchers, Magentic-One is a generalist agentic system that can “fully realize the long-held vision of agentic systems that can enhance …
Researchers have introduced OmniGen, the first diffusion model capable of unifying various image generation tasks within a single framework. Unlike existing models like Stable Diffusion, OmniGen does not require additional modules to handle different control conditions, according to the authors Shitao Xiao, Yueze Wang, Junjie Zhou, Huaying Yuan, et al. The model can perform text-to-image …
Hugging Face has released SmolLM2, a new family of compact language models designed to run on smartphones and edge devices with limited processing power and memory. The models, released under the Apache 2.0 license, come in three sizes up to 1.7B parameters and achieve impressive performance on key benchmarks, outperforming larger models like Meta’s Llama …
Runway, a New York City-based AI startup, has launched advanced camera controls for its Gen-3 Alpha Turbo video generation model. According to an article by Carl Franzen, these new features allow users to zoom in and out of AI-generated scenes while preserving character forms and settings, creating a realistic 3D world. The camera controls provide …