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The research company Playground Research presents “Playground v3”, a new AI model for text-image generation, which has apparently achieved top performance in several test procedures. The system stands out for its precise implementation of text instructions, its ability to reason logically, and the outstanding quality of its text rendering. In user studies, the model even …
AI company Cohere has added multimodal capabilities to its Embed 3 embedding model, allowing images to be included in RAG-based company searches. This is reported by Emilia David for VentureBeat. The new version can create embeddings for both images and text, with both formats stored in a unified database. According to Cohere, this allows companies …
AI startup TollBit has raised $24 million in Series A funding. The round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, will help the company expand internationally and hire new employees, reports Sara Fischer for Axios. TollBit operates a marketplace that brings publishers and AI companies together and helps simplify their data exchange, both legally and commercially. The …
Artificial intelligence is making professional portrait photos possible without a photographer. Three AI services – Portrait Pal, PixelPose, and Dreamwave – turn simple photos into high-quality application photos, as Jon Stojan reports in an article for VentureBeat. The services differ primarily in price, processing time, and the number of photos delivered. The three services work …
Google has made its technology for watermarking AI-generated text publicly available. Developers and businesses can now freely download the tool called SynthID Text from the AI platform Hugging Face and Google’s Responsible GenAI Toolkit. As Kyle Wiggers reports on TechCrunch, the technology works by subtly modifying the probability of certain word sequences during text generation. …
The Canadian AI startup Ideogram has expanded its image generation capabilities with a new interactive “Canvas”. As reported by Carl Franzen, users can now arrange, compare, and combine AI-generated images on an unlimited workspace. The new tool includes features like “Magic Fill” for targeted image editing and “Extend” for expanding image boundaries. Ideogram offers Canvas …
The design platform Canva has launched a new AI image generator called “Dream Lab”. The tool, based on Leonardo.ai technology, can create images from text descriptions in various styles such as “3D render” or “illustration”, reports Jess Weatherbed. Compared to Canva’s existing Stable Diffusion generator, Dream Lab is said to deliver better results particularly in …
Filmmakers and animators will soon be able to create facial expressions and micro-expressions for their characters with significantly less effort. This is promised by the new AI tool “Act-One,” which Runway is now introducing as part of its Gen-3 Alpha video model. The feature aims to replace complex motion capture procedures with simple video recordings. …
Asana, a work management platform, has introduced AI Studio, a new feature for creating AI agents for workflow management. As Alex Hood, Chief Product Officer at Asana, explained to VentureBeat, users can now integrate multiple custom AI agents directly into their workflows without any coding knowledge. The aim is to relieve employees of routine tasks, …
Anthropic has unveiled an updated version of its AI model Claude 3.5 Sonnet. According to the company, the model can now control desktop applications and perform PC tasks. It uses a new “Computer Use” feature, which is in public beta. Anthropic emphasizes that the technology is still error-prone and recommends developers initially test it only …