OpenAI Sora: AI videos in a new level of quality

OpenAI has caused quite a stir with a preview of the video AI “Sora”. The examples on the official website are indeed impressive. However, without our own tests, it is not yet possible to make a meaningful assessment of how well Sora works in everyday life and what the video clips can be used for. …

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Many updates for Google Gemini

Google has visibly accelerated AI development. At the same time, the company is unifying its activities under the “Gemini” brand. The ChatGPT competitor Google Bard is now called Google Gemini and the proprietary AI models are also called Gemini. Until now, Google’s chatbot used the “Gemini Pro” AI model, but now “Gemini Ultra” is also …

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Google introduces Gemma, a new family of open source AI models

While Google’s Gemini offerings are proprietary, the company has now unveiled two open source models under the name Gemma that are free to use. Officials say they are based on the same techniques used for Gemini. With 2 billion and 7 billion parameters, the two Gemma models are small and have limited capabilities. However, they …

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Slack with new AI features

If you use Slack in a large company and for a long period of time, it is not so easy to stay up to date and to find information again. New AI helpers are designed to change that, summarizing discussions and improving the search function, for example. Sources: VentureBeat, The Verge

AI image generator Stable Cascade runs on standard PCs

The creators of Stable Diffusion give a preview of Stable Cascade, which, thanks to its particular architecture, can be used on PCs without specialized and expensive hardware. Source: Stability.ai

Cohere Aya speaks 101 languages

The nonprofit Cohere for AI has unveiled its large language model Aya, which can speak 101 languages – more than twice as many as other AI tools. Sources: VentureBeat, Cohere

ChatGPT gets a memory (as a trial)

Until now, the AI bot has not been able to learn. Each chat is completely separate from the others. OpenAI is now testing a feature that will allow ChatGPT to remember important details from other conversations it has had. It is currently available to a small number of users. The goal is to gain experience …

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