Google admits to errors in its new AI Overviews, which the company says are based on misinterpretations of search queries and web sources. Google is working on improvements, but insists that the accuracy of AI Overviews is comparable to that of traditional search results. In my opinion, this casts a rather bad light on the …
Microsoft has scaled back its plans for a new Windows feature called Recall. Originally, Recall was supposed to be automatically activated and record user activity in the background to make it usable for AI applications. After heavy criticism from privacy advocates and security researchers, Recall is now optional. New security measures have also been introduced …
Microsoft is discontinuing GPT Builder for consumers just three months after its launch. The company does not believe it is economically viable to continue developing the service. Users have until July 14 to back up their data, after which all GPTs and associated information will be deleted.
French AI startup Mistral is offering new options for customizing its generative models, including a new software development kit (SDK). This allows developers and enterprises to optimize the models for specific use cases.
Writer’s new “AI Studio” platform enables companies to develop their own AI applications using the “Writer Framework” and without programming knowledge. Writer is positioning itself as a one-stop shop for companies looking to harness the potential of generative AI in their day-to-day operations.
Camb AI’s Mars5 AI model enables realistic voice cloning in over 140 languages, combining voice cloning and text-to-speech in a single platform. The company claims that Mars5 is particularly good at capturing emotional nuances in speech, making it ideal for applications such as sports commentary and movies.
Stability AI releases “Stable Audio Open,” a new AI model for the free creation of sounds and pieces of music up to 47 seconds in length. However, due to the training material, it is limited to English descriptions and Western music styles.
ElevenLabs, a speech synthesis AI startup, unveiled “Sound Effects,” a new product that allows users to create audio samples simply by entering text. Developed in partnership with Shutterstock, the tool is designed to help creative professionals in fields as diverse as film, television, video games, and social media enhance their content with interesting and appropriate …
The new $70 Raspberry Pi AI Kit allows users to implement AI applications for visual tasks with the microcomputer. The kit enables real-time object recognition, segmentation, and pose estimation with low power consumption, which could make the Raspberry Pi 5 suitable for many local AI applications.
For the first time, Scale AI publishes rankings for large language models, evaluating their performance in specific application areas such as generative AI programming, regression, mathematics, and multilingualism. OpenAI’s GPT models ranked first in three of the four areas (coding, multilingual, instruction following), while Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus ranked first in the remaining one (Math).