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Calling app Truecaller is introducing a new feature that allows users to create an AI version of their own voice to answer calls and ask the reason for the call, for example. But is it a good idea to use your own voice for this? I think it would be confusing …
Journalists Dalvin Brown, Kara Dapena, and Joanna Stern tested ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity in everyday situations. Each chatbot was asked questions formulated by Wall Street Journal editors and columnists. The responses were evaluated by an independent panel of judges based on accuracy, usefulness and overall quality. The health category included questions about pregnancy, …
With its new Copilot+ PCs, Microsoft wants to usher in an era in which generative AI is processed directly on the device rather than in the cloud. These PCs have special hardware (Neural Processing Units, NPUs) to run AI processes locally. The first Copilot+ laptops, developed in collaboration with companies such as AMD, Intel, Qualcomm …
The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi has released Falcon 2 11B, a new, powerful AI model that is freely available and multilingual. Falcon 2 11B outperforms comparable models such as Meta’s Llama 3.
The UK’s AI Safety Institute releases Inspect, an open source toolset designed to simplify the safety assessment of AI models. Inspect can be used to test the capabilities of AI models, such as core knowledge and reasoning.
Krea AI now offers its paying users the ability to create videos using AI. The new feature combines both still images and text input.
Enkrypt has published a ranking of the most secure large language models (LLMs) to help companies choose the most suitable models. OpenAI’s GPT-4-Turbo tops the list with the lowest risk score, while models such as Saul Instruct-V1 and Phi3-Mini-4K are at the bottom of the list.
Canadian startup Upend offers a new kind of AI search engine that gives users access to over 100 different language models to get accurate answers with sources. Unlike competitors such as Perplexity, Upend relies on a pricing model designed to appeal to teams and students.
Meta’s new AI tools allow advertisers to create not just backgrounds, but entire images to generate product variations. However, this feature also carries the risk of tricking customers with non-existent products, although Meta emphasizes that it has taken strict security precautions.
Amazon aims to simplify generative AI development with Bedrock Studio: The new tool is designed to help businesses experiment, share, and build AI-powered applications.