Arctic’s Snowflake aims at enterprise tasks
Snowflake introduces Arctic, a new open language model designed specifically for complex enterprise tasks such as generating SQL queries and code or following instructions.
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Anthropic offers Claude for Teams
Anthropic, creator of ChatGPT competitor Claude, introduces the “Team” business solution. It includes access to the three latest Claude models, has increased usage limits, admin tools and invoice management, and offers longer context windows for uploading large documents for editing. In addition, an iPhone app is now available.
Amazon Q chatbot available
The Amazon Q AI chatbot is now generally available to help businesses with tasks such as knowledge discovery, software development, and data analysis.
Apple releases OpenELM AI models
Apple releases OpenELM, a set of small, freely available AI models that can run directly on devices like laptops or smartphones and perform tasks such as text generation efficiently. While not industry-leading in performance, OpenELM seems to provide a solid foundation for future research and development in on-device AI.
Adobe integrates image generator Firefly into Photoshop
Adobe integrates its Firefly AI image generator directly into Photoshop, allowing users to create images using text input and then edit them using familiar Photoshop tools.
Microsoft Phi-3 Mini announced
Microsoft introduces Phi-3 Mini, its smallest AI model to date, which can compete with models such as GPT-3.5 despite its small size, making it ideal for companies with smaller data sets and limited budgets.
VideoGigaGAN improves video upscaling
VideoGigaGAN outperforms previous methods of video upscaling, creating videos with a high level of detail and consistency. The approach is based on the GigaGAN image upscaler and solves its video processing problems through special techniques that result in sharper and smoother videos. Source: Hacker News
“Expressive Avatars” are more lifelike than ever
London-based Synthesia introduces “Expressive Avatars,” a new generation of AI avatars that adapt their facial expressions, gestures, and tone of voice to the context of the spoken content. This makes it possible to create more realistic and emotional AI videos for marketing, training or patient communication.
Microsoft’s VASA-1 generates video from a photo and audio
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can make human portraits sing and talk. It only needs a still image and an audio file with speech to generate moving lips, matching facial expressions and head movements. Microsoft emphasizes that this is a research demonstration only, with no plans to bring it to market.
AdaKWS claims better speech recognition than OpenAI’s Whisper
The new AI model AdaKWS from speech recognition specialist aiOla claims to be able to convert speech correctly into text, even if it is technical jargon. The model achieves an accuracy of 94.6% – better than OpenAI’s Whisper.