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Anthropic has made its most advanced language model, Claude 3 Opus, available on Amazon Bedrock. Developers can now use Opus to build generative AI applications. It is initially available only in the US West region (Oregon).
The AI image generator Ideogram has released several new features. One allows users to create images based on text descriptions of reference images. Negative prompts now help to avoid certain elements in an image. And speed mode options offer trade-offs between speed and image quality.
The Brave browser is adding a privacy-focused, AI-powered “answer engine” to its Brave Search search engine that can provide answers in the form of text, fact cards, and images.
STORM is an AI system that can write Wikipedia-like articles from scratch by searching the web and using a two-step process to first create a draft with outline and references, and then the full article with citations. Source: Hacker News
Zyphra introduces Zamba, an open source 7 billion parameter model designed to bring artificial intelligence to more devices, with a decentralized approach and smaller model size to provide a more cost-effective and personalized alternative to large, centralized AI models.
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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. … Read more
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.