Microsoft’s GPT Builder discontinued

Microsoft is discontinuing GPT Builder for consumers just three months after its launch. The company does not believe it is economically viable to continue developing the service. Users have until July 14 to back up their data, after which all GPTs and associated information will be deleted.

Mistral adds more options for customization

French AI startup Mistral is offering new options for customizing its generative models, including a new software development kit (SDK). This allows developers and enterprises to optimize the models for specific use cases.

Writer announces AI Studio for companies

Writer’s new “AI Studio” platform enables companies to develop their own AI applications using the “Writer Framework” and without programming knowledge. Writer is positioning itself as a one-stop shop for companies looking to harness the potential of generative AI in their day-to-day operations.

Camb AI Mars5 enables voice cloning in over 140 languages

Camb AI’s Mars5 AI model enables realistic voice cloning in over 140 languages, combining voice cloning and text-to-speech in a single platform. The company claims that Mars5 is particularly good at capturing emotional nuances in speech, making it ideal for applications such as sports commentary and movies.

Stability AI release Stable Audio Open

Stability AI releases “Stable Audio Open,” a new AI model for the free creation of sounds and pieces of music up to 47 seconds in length. However, due to the training material, it is limited to English descriptions and Western music styles.

ElevenLabs Sound Effects creates audio samples

ElevenLabs, a speech synthesis AI startup, unveiled “Sound Effects,” a new product that allows users to create audio samples simply by entering text. Developed in partnership with Shutterstock, the tool is designed to help creative professionals in fields as diverse as film, television, video games, and social media enhance their content with interesting and appropriate …

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New AI kit for the Raspberry Pi

The new $70 Raspberry Pi AI Kit allows users to implement AI applications for visual tasks with the microcomputer. The kit enables real-time object recognition, segmentation, and pose estimation with low power consumption, which could make the Raspberry Pi 5 suitable for many local AI applications.

Scale AI publishes AI rankings

For the first time, Scale AI publishes rankings for large language models, evaluating their performance in specific application areas such as generative AI programming, regression, mathematics, and multilingualism. OpenAI’s GPT models ranked first in three of the four areas (coding, multilingual, instruction following), while Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus ranked first in the remaining one (Math).

Intels “Lunar Lake” is a laptop chip for AI

Intel introduced the “Lunar Lake” processor, a completely redesigned laptop chip for AI applications that eliminates the need for separate memory modules and instead integrates up to 32GB of LPDDR5X memory directly into the chip package. Thanks to numerous optimizations, Intel promises up to 14 percent more CPU performance at the same clock speed, 50 …

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Nvidia Blackwell is a new hardware architecture for AI

Nvidia introduced “Blackwell,” a new hardware architecture for AI applications. It is designed to significantly increase the efficiency of data centers and accelerate the development of new AI solutions. New systems based on Blackwell will be offered by a number of vendors, including Asus, Gigabyte and Supermicro, and are expected to be suitable for both …

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