Microsoft Brings Copilot AI Directly to Windows PCs

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 …

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Falcon 2 11B announced

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.

Inspect helps to assess AI safety

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 adds video generator

Krea AI now offers its paying users the ability to create videos using AI. The new feature combines both still images and text input.

Ranking of most secure LLMs

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.

Upend is a new AI search from Canada

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 adds AI tools for advertisers

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 Bedrock Studio helps Enterprise AI

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.

Atlassian Rovo is an AI-powered knowledge base

Atlassian Rovo is a new AI-powered tool that acts as a knowledge base for organizations by collecting data from different apps and helping employees find information, learn from it, and take action. Rovo is designed to increase productivity by simplifying the search for information within an organization and enabling automated tasks through AI agents.

Nvidia ChatRTX supports Google Gemma

Nvidia’s ChatRTX chatbot now supports Google’s Gemma model, allowing users to interact with their own documents, photos, and YouTube videos. The update also includes voice search and offers more ways to search locally stored data using different AI models.