SCROpenAI CEO Sam Altman has responded to an exclusive report by The Verge journalists Kylie Robison and Tom Warren, which claimed that the company plans to launch a new frontier AI model codenamed Orion by December, calling it “fake news out of control” on X (formerly Twitter). The report, citing sources familiar with the plan, …
Anthropic’s latest AI feature “Computer Use” can demonstrate remarkable capabilities in interacting with computers, according to a recent hands-on experience by Thariq Shihipar. While the system is still slow, unreliable, and prone to taking over the user’s computer, it represents an exciting step forward in AI-driven computer interaction, write Shihipar. Claude Computer Use excels at …
Cerebras has announced a major update to its Cerebras Inference platform, which now runs the Llama 3.1-70B language model at an impressive 2,100 tokens per second – a threefold performance increase compared to the previous release. According to James Wang from the official Cerebras blog, this performance is 16 times faster than the fastest GPU …
Meta Platforms has released quantized versions of its Llama 3.2 1B and 3B models, which the company says offer reduced memory requirements, faster on-device inference, accuracy, and portability. The models were developed in close collaboration with Qualcomm and MediaTek and are available on SoCs with Arm CPUs. According to Meta, the average model size has …
OpenAI plans to release its next major AI model, called Orion, by December, The Verge has learned. Unlike previous releases, Orion will first be made available to companies to build their own products and features. The model is said to be more powerful than GPT-4, and is seen as a step toward artificial general intelligence …
Apple has opened its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) system to security researchers, according to a post on its Security Research Blog. PCC is designed to meet compute-intensive requests for Apple Intelligence while maintaining privacy by bringing Apple’s device security model to the cloud. The company is now making available a security guide, virtual research environment, …
AI search engine Perplexity has written a blog post in response to a lawsuit filed by media company News Corp, which accuses the startup of copyright infringement. According to Perplexity’s Maxwell Zeff, media companies wish this technology didn’t exist and that they could live in a world where facts are owned by corporations. Perplexity claims …
Google Photos will soon show whether images have been edited using artificial intelligence. As Chris Welch reports in his article for The Verge, the AI information will be visible in the “AI info” section of the image details starting next week. The label will apply to edits made with tools like Magic Editor, Magic Eraser, …
AI image generator Midjourney has introduced a new AI image editor that allows users to directly edit and style uploaded images. As Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat, users can use the new “Edit” feature to turn vintage photos into anime-style images, for example, or turn hand drawings into full-fledged works of art in a matter …
OpenAI has developed a new AI model that can generate media content such as images, videos and audio 50 times faster than previous systems. The new model, called a “continuous-time consistency model,” takes about a tenth of a second to generate an image instead of the usual five seconds, OpenAI researchers Cheng Lu and Yang …