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Hume AI has unveiled an improved version of its voice AI EVI 2. The new version offers more natural conversations, faster response times, and more voice customization options. This was reported by Carl Franzen for VentureBeat. According to Hume co-founder Alan Cowen, EVI 2 can now be integrated directly into apps to process user requests. …
Anthropic, the company behind the AI assistant Claude, presents a new method to improve AI information retrieval. The technology, called Contextual Retrieval, reduces failed searches in large databases by up to 49 percent. When combined with reranking, the error rate is reduced by 67 percent. The process adds context to text snippets before they are …
YouTube is integrating artificial intelligence into numerous features for creators. The company has announced the integration of Google’s AI video model Veo into YouTube Shorts. This will allow users to generate high-quality backgrounds and short video clips. In addition, a new Inspiration tab in YouTube Studio will offer AI-powered suggestions for video ideas, titles and …
Snapchat is introducing a new AI-powered video creation tool. The tool, which is now in beta for select users, allows users to create videos from text prompts, and soon, image prompts. The company made the announcement at its annual Snap Partner Summit, as Aisha Malik reports for TechCrunch. Snap stresses that all content created with …
Salesforce presents its vision for autonomous AI agents at Dreamforce 2024. CEO Marc Benioff explains that these agents will replace existing copilots and be based on a standardized platform. The company is focusing on its Agentforce product, which will deploy AI agents across various cloud services, writes Larry Dignan. The Salesforce platform and the Data …
ClickUp has launched a new chat feature with extensive AI capabilities. The AI integration, based in part on OpenAI’s GPT-4, provides automatic summaries of missed conversations, identifies action items, and creates detailed tasks from chat messages. As Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat, users can ask AI-powered questions about projects, with answers pulled from chat history …
Companies are increasingly turning to model routing to make their AI systems more efficient. As Sean Michael Kerner reports for VentureBeat, this technology enables the dynamic selection of the most appropriate AI model for each query. Startup Martian has developed a large language model (LLM) router that is attracting interest from major tech companies. Accenture …
Luma AI has released an API for its video AI model Dream Machine, just hours after a similar move by competitor Runway. As Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat, the API allows developers to integrate Dream Machine into their own applications. The model can generate videos from text or images, and offers features such as camera …
Start-ups Cerebras and Groq have unveiled powerful processors for AI inference that aim to outperform Nvidia’s previously dominant GPUs. As VentureBeat reports, Cerebras’ new CS-3 chip offers 125 petaflops of processing power with 4 trillion transistors. Groq scores with an energy-efficient tensor streaming processor. Both companies are targeting the growing market for AI applications. Experts …
Slack is expanding its offering to include AI agents from third-party providers and customers. The new feature allows paying users to integrate AI agents from partners like Asana, Cohere, and Adobe, as well as their own agents, into the chat platform. Rob Seaman, Slack’s head of product, told VentureBeat that office workers are increasingly looking …