Reka, a San Francisco-based AI startup, introduces Reka Core, a powerful multimodal language model developed in less than a year that is supposed to match or leapfrog leading models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. The model offers different modalities such as image, audio and video, supports 32 languages and comes with a context window of …
Adobe plans to add plug-ins for third-party AI video generators such as OpenAI’s Sora, Runway ML’s Gen-2, and Pika 1.0 to its Premiere Pro video editing software. This integration would allow users to seamlessly combine and edit footage shot on traditional cameras with AI-generated content. Adobe is also announcing a version of its proprietary Firefly …
Google unveiled a series of updates to its enterprise AI offerings at its annual cloud computing conference in Las Vegas. Despite recent troubles with consumer-facing tools, the company insisted the technology is safe and ready for enterprise use. Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian demonstrated how its most powerful AI model, Gemini, can be used for …
AIs can generate not only text, images, and video, but also sound and music. The progress in quality is amazing. Let’s look at three prominent examples: Udio Launched a week ago as part of a public beta, Udio has already caused quite a stir. The website contains numerous examples of songs created with this tool. …
Commercial AIs like ChatGPT or Claude have a mostly invisible system prompt that explains important rules and guidelines to the assistant. The system prompt therefore influences how an AI behaves and whether it refuses certain requests, for example. A member of the Claude team recently published their assistant’s system prompt on Twitter/X, explaining it line …
This article from The Verge examines whether AI-based search engines can already replace Google. The author analyzes the three most common types of search queries – navigation, information, and exploration – and concludes that AI tools are significantly slower than Google for navigation queries. They perform better for information queries and can be especially helpful …
This article provides an overview of existing and planned AI compliance regulations. It shows how marketers can use AI tools without running afoul of regulations. Risks include biased content and advertising, misinformation, and data security. Companies should establish clear guidelines for the use of AI, limit the scope of tasks assigned to AI, and carefully …
Intel confirms that Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant will soon run locally on PCs powered by its chips. Intel’s Lunar Lake processors, due out at the end of the year, are expected to deliver three times the AI performance of current Meteor Lake chips, meeting the needs of the next generation of AI PCs.
Researchers at Stanford University and Notbad AI want to teach language models to think before responding to prompts. Using their model, called “Quiet-STaR,” they were able to improve the reasoning skills of the language models they tested.
In an open letter, more than 200 famous musicians, including Billie Eilish and Katy Perry, call on technology companies and AI developers not to violate artists’ rights and devalue their work. The signatories emphasize that AI, when used responsibly, can enhance human creativity. However, they warn that some platforms and developers are misusing the technology …