Google offers AI tools to nonprofits at steep discounts

Google has expanded its Workspace for Nonprofits program to include advanced AI features powered by Gemini. Amanda Timberg, Director of Google.org Global Programs, announced that eligible organizations can access these tools either for free or at up to 75% discount. The offering includes enterprise-grade data protection and privacy features, with certifications like SOC, ISO, and …

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Riffusion launches free AI platform for personalized music creation

Riffusion, a San Francisco-based AI startup, has introduced a new free web platform that enables users to create original music through artificial intelligence. According to Michael Nuñez at VentureBeat, the platform’s AI model called Fuzz can generate complete songs from text descriptions, audio clips, or visual prompts. The system learns users’ musical preferences over time …

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Anthropic’s new AI safety system blocks most jailbreak attempts

Anthropic has unveiled “constitutional classifiers,” a new security system that prevents AI models from generating harmful content. According to research published by Anthropic and reported by Taryn Plumb in VentureBeat, the system successfully blocks 95.6% of jailbreak attempts on their Claude 3.5 Sonnet model. The company tested the system with 10,000 synthetic jailbreaking prompts in …

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ByteDance OmniHuman turns photos into realistic videos

ByteDance has developed an AI system that can generate realistic full-body videos from a single photograph. The new technology, called OmniHuman, can create videos of people speaking, singing, and moving naturally with matching gestures. As reported by Michael Nuñez, the system was trained on over 18,700 hours of human video data. OmniHuman combines multiple input …

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Mistral launches mobile AI assistant with premium tier

French AI company Mistral has released mobile versions of its AI assistant Le Chat for iOS and Android devices. As reported by Romain Dillet for TechCrunch, the app offers a conversation-like interface for interacting with Mistral’s language models. The company also introduced a Pro subscription at $14.99 per month, providing access to their most advanced …

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Google tests new AI-powered search mode with employees

Google has begun internal testing of a new AI Mode for its search engine that aims to provide more comprehensive answers to complex queries. As reported by Abner Li for 9to5Google, the feature uses Gemini 2.0 to handle exploratory questions and follow-up queries that traditional search results don’t address well. The new interface appears alongside …

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Microsoft brings advanced AI reasoning to all Copilot versions for free

Microsoft is extending OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model to all Copilot users at no additional cost, Tom Warren reports. The feature, called “Think Deeper,” enables more complex question handling and provides detailed step-by-step answers. It was previously available only to premium subscribers. The tool takes approximately 30 seconds to analyze questions from multiple perspectives. Microsoft AI …

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Ai2 Tulu 3 is an open-source language model rivaling leading systems

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2) has released Tulu 3 405B, a new AI language model that, according to the institute’s internal testing, outperforms several leading AI systems including DeepSeek V3 and matches capabilities with OpenAI’s GPT-4o on certain benchmarks. The model contains 405 billion parameters and required 256 GPUs running in parallel for …

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Mistral Small 3 rivals larger competitors

French startup Mistral AI has announced the release of Mistral Small 3, a 24-billion-parameter language model that the company claims matches the performance of models three times its size. According to Mistral AI, the new model achieves 81% accuracy on standard benchmarks while processing 150 tokens per second, making it comparable to Meta’s Llama 3.3 …

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Alibaba releases new AI models challenging global tech leaders

Alibaba’s Qwen team has launched two significant AI models – Qwen2.5-VL and Qwen2.5-Max – that demonstrate advanced capabilities in various tasks. According to the company, these models can perform text and image analysis, control computers and mobile devices, and compete with established AI systems from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google on multiple benchmarks. The Qwen2.5-VL model …

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