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DeepMind researchers have introduced a new agentic framework called Talker-Reasoner, which is inspired by the “two systems” model of human cognition. The framework divides the AI agent into two distinct modules, VentureBeat reports: the Talker, which handles real-time interactions with the user and the environment, and the Reasoner, which performs complex reasoning and planning. The …
Notion, a productivity platform with over 100 million users, has announced the launch of its new email client, Notion Mail, at its first “Make with Notion” user conference. Currently in preview, Notion Mail integrates with Notion AI and Notion Calendar to provide users with a more flexible and organized email experience, TechCrunch reports. The company …
Cerebras has announced a major update to its Cerebras Inference platform, which now runs the Llama 3.1-70B language model at an impressive 2,100 tokens per second – a threefold performance increase compared to the previous release. According to James Wang from the official Cerebras blog, this performance is 16 times faster than the fastest GPU …
Meta Platforms has released quantized versions of its Llama 3.2 1B and 3B models, which the company says offer reduced memory requirements, faster on-device inference, accuracy, and portability. The models were developed in close collaboration with Qualcomm and MediaTek and are available on SoCs with Arm CPUs. According to Meta, the average model size has …
Google Photos will soon show whether images have been edited using artificial intelligence. As Chris Welch reports in his article for The Verge, the AI information will be visible in the “AI info” section of the image details starting next week. The label will apply to edits made with tools like Magic Editor, Magic Eraser, …
AI image generator Midjourney has introduced a new AI image editor that allows users to directly edit and style uploaded images. As Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat, users can use the new “Edit” feature to turn vintage photos into anime-style images, for example, or turn hand drawings into full-fledged works of art in a matter …
OpenAI has developed a new AI model that can generate media content such as images, videos and audio 50 times faster than previous systems. The new model, called a “continuous-time consistency model,” takes about a tenth of a second to generate an image instead of the usual five seconds, OpenAI researchers Cheng Lu and Yang …
New York-based AI startup Hugging Face is teaming up with Amazon and Google to launch new open-source software aimed at lowering the cost of developing chatbots and other AI systems, Stephen Nellis reports for Reuters. The offering, called “HUGS” (Hugging Face for Generative AI Services), automates the implementation of AI models and will be available …
The research company Playground Research presents “Playground v3”, a new AI model for text-image generation, which has apparently achieved top performance in several test procedures. The system stands out for its precise implementation of text instructions, its ability to reason logically, and the outstanding quality of its text rendering. In user studies, the model even …
AI company Cohere has added multimodal capabilities to its Embed 3 embedding model, allowing images to be included in RAG-based company searches. This is reported by Emilia David for VentureBeat. The new version can create embeddings for both images and text, with both formats stored in a unified database. According to Cohere, this allows companies …