Microsoft Phi-3 Mini announced
Microsoft introduces Phi-3 Mini, its smallest AI model to date, which can compete with models such as GPT-3.5 despite its small size, making it ideal for companies with smaller data sets and limited budgets.
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VideoGigaGAN improves video upscaling
VideoGigaGAN outperforms previous methods of video upscaling, creating videos with a high level of detail and consistency. The approach is based on the GigaGAN image upscaler and solves its video processing problems through special techniques that result in sharper and smoother videos. Source: Hacker News
“Expressive Avatars” are more lifelike than ever
London-based Synthesia introduces “Expressive Avatars,” a new generation of AI avatars that adapt their facial expressions, gestures, and tone of voice to the context of the spoken content. This makes it possible to create more realistic and emotional AI videos for marketing, training or patient communication.
Microsoft’s VASA-1 generates video from a photo and audio
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can make human portraits sing and talk. It only needs a still image and an audio file with speech to generate moving lips, matching facial expressions and head movements. Microsoft emphasizes that this is a research demonstration only, with no plans to bring it to market.
AdaKWS claims better speech recognition than OpenAI’s Whisper
The new AI model AdaKWS from speech recognition specialist aiOla claims to be able to convert speech correctly into text, even if it is technical jargon. The model achieves an accuracy of 94.6% – better than OpenAI’s Whisper.
ChatGPT update brings “memory” feature and temporary chats
ChatGPT has received several updates. One of the most interesting is the “memory” feature, which allows ChatGPT to remember information that users communicate to it. For example, you can store details about yourself or your company that the chatbot can access when needed. Other new features include the ability to have temporary chats that are …
Meta’s impressive ChatGPT alternative Llama 3
Meta presents Llama 3, the latest generation of its speech models, which is freely available for download. The models are said to surpass the performance of many competitors and can even compete with some of the best proprietary models. Llama 3 is said to excel at multiple-choice questions, programming tasks, and mathematical problems. In addition …
Tested: Generative AI by iStock
There are many AI image generators. But they often have one problem: copyright. First, it is not always clear where the training material comes from. Second, it is not certain to what extent you can get into legal trouble with the generated images. Such image generators are often out of the question for companies and …
Open Weights
Some AI applications are freely available. Examples include language models from French vendor Mistral or the Llama family from Facebook/Meta. However, it is not correct to call these “open source”. What you get as a user is the end result of the training, the core of a large language model called “weights”. At the same …
AI tools are slightly useful, but are they worth it?
And if you want to take a thoughtful, skeptical look at the AI hype, read this article by Molly White. She asks whether today’s AI tools are really worth their cost. And b cost, she doesn’t just mean the monetary cost, but also the environmental impact as well as other potential negative effects on people …