Character.ai is changing its strategy following a $2.7 billion deal with Google. As new interim CEO Dominic Perella told the Financial Times, the company is abandoning the costly development of its own AI models. Instead, Character.ai will focus on improving its popular chatbot products that simulate conversations with various characters and celebrities. After the Google …
A MIT spin-off called Liquid AI has unveiled new AI models that are not based on the usual transformer architecture. According to the company, these “Liquid Foundation Models” (LFMs) already outperform comparable transformer-based models in performance and efficiency. Liquid AI announced this in a statement. Instead of transformers, the developers used approaches from the theory …
Y Combinator faces criticism for backing AI startup PearAI that copied an existing open-source project and released it under a more restrictive license. As reported by Julie Bort, PearAI founder Duke Pan admitted to cloning the code from the Continue project. The issue arose when PearAI initially used its own license, created with ChatGPT, and …
A new AI-powered recording device called NotePin from Plaud.AI makes it easier to take notes on conversations. Brian Heater writes about his experience for TechCrunch. According to him, the $169 device takes up very little space in his luggage and records conversations at the touch of a button. The recordings are transferred in real time …
Fei-Fei Li, known as the “godmother of AI,” has founded a startup called World Labs. The company aims to develop AI systems that can construct complete worlds with the physics, logic, and details of our physical reality. Despite an alleged slowdown in the AI sector, investors have already poured $230 million into the project, valuing …
A new AI startup called Maitai has developed a platform to optimize the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in practice. As founders Christian and Ian tell Hacker News, Maitai acts as a proxy to analyze the traffic between the application and the LLM. The system automatically detects errors, corrects them in real time, and …
Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, has launched a new startup called Safe Superintelligence Inc. He is joined by Daniel Levy and Daniel Gross. The founders see “superintelligence” as the most important technical problem of our time. Such systems would go far beyond the capabilities of the human brain. Sutskever was previously part of the superalignment …
AI startup Symbolica is focusing on a new approach to giving AI models human-like reasoning and unprecedented transparency. According to the company, it aims to overcome the “alchemy” of today’s AI systems and create a scientific foundation that will lead to interpretable, data-efficient, and controllable AI models. Source: VentureBeat
Limitless is a new AI tool that records, transcribes and summarizes meetings and provides real-time notes. The accompanying “Limitless Pendant” is a portable device that automatically records audio and sends it to the cloud. That sounds useful, but it also sounds like a huge privacy problem … Source: The Verge
Reka, a San Francisco-based AI startup, introduces Reka Core, a powerful multimodal language model developed in less than a year that is supposed to match or leapfrog leading models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. The model offers different modalities such as image, audio and video, supports 32 languages and comes with a context window of …