Figma has temporarily withdrawn its new AI tool “Make Designs” after it created designs for a weather app that were strikingly similar to Apple’s version. This raises the question of whether the models from OpenAI and Amazon used by Figma were trained on Apple’s designs. Figma has taken responsibility for the incident and intends to …
Microsoft’s head of AI, Mustafa Suleyman, has caused an uproar with his statement that all content available online is “freeware”. This means that from his perspective anyone can copy this content and use it for their own creations, as long as the creators do not explicitly object. This statement is disputed by many experts, and …
The tech industry is investing heavily in AI infrastructure, but experts doubt its profitability. It is estimated that AI companies would need to generate $600 billion a year to justify the expense. So far, however, only a few giants like OpenAI dominate the market, while many smaller start-ups are struggling. The high cost of AI …
How good is the new Runway Gen-3 video AI really? One Reddit user treated himself to a year of access and let others decide which prompts to try. See the results here.
Anthropic has released new features for its Claude language model to help developers create better prompts to optimize the performance of their AI applications.
Microsoft’s new “MInference” technology promises to significantly increase the processing speed of large language models by reducing the preprocessing time of long texts by up to 90%. An interactive demo on Hugging Face allows developers to test the technology and explore its capabilities.
Quora’s AI chatbot platform, Poe, introduced Previews, a new feature that allows users to create interactive applications in chats. These include data visualizations, games, or even drum machines that access information from uploaded files. The created applications can be shared via a link.
Salesforce has developed xLAM-1B, a small but powerful AI model that supposedly outperforms larger models from OpenAI and Anthropic in function calls.
ElevenLabs has introduced a new free service called AI Voice Isolator, which removes unwanted background noise from movies, podcasts or YouTube videos. Unlike other programs that can only remove constant noise, the Voice Isolator also handles irregular noises such as a door opening or someone clapping.
ElevenLabs has released a new app called Reader, which allows users to have any text read aloud in AI voices. New are “Iconic Voices”, which recreate the voices of deceased stars such as Judy Garland, James Dean and Laurence Olivier. The company acquired the rights to the voices from CMG Worldwide and stresses that the …