Meta releases several new AI models

Meta is releasing a series of new AI models for audio, text and watermarks. Meta is also making two sizes of its Chameleon multimodal text model available for research. These models can be used to perform tasks that require both visual and textual understanding, such as image annotation.

New version and features for ChatGPT alternative Claude

Anthropic’s new language model Claude 3.5 Sonnet is causing a stir in the AI community. It reportedly outperforms previous models such as GPT-4 in benchmark tests and impresses users with its performance. It can handle complex tasks such as game or web development. Despite weaknesses in simple cognitive tasks, Claude 3.5 Sonnet shows the pace …

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Cohere Aya 23 is multilingual

Cohere for AI releases the Aya 23 multilingual AI models with support for 23 languages and open weights. The models outperform its predecessor, Aya 101, and other open models on a variety of tasks, enabling researchers and practitioners to further develop the multilingual models and applications.

Five chatbots compared

Journalists Dalvin Brown, Kara Dapena, and Joanna Stern tested ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity in everyday situations. Each chatbot was asked questions formulated by Wall Street Journal editors and columnists. The responses were evaluated by an independent panel of judges based on accuracy, usefulness and overall quality. The health category included questions about pregnancy, …

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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.

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.

OpenAI releases GPT-4o and more

One day before Google’s I/O, OpenAI tried to steal the show from its big competitor. And their demos definitely caused quite a stir. The focus was on their latest AI model GPT-4o, where the “o” stands for “omnimodel”. This is to indicate that this version does not only process text, but also e.g. image and …

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Google’s fireworks of new tools and features

As expected, Google used the keynote at its I/O developer conference to demonstrate its strength in AI. Among other things, the company presented new AI models for a wide range of tasks. Some will run directly on Android devices or can be found in the Chrome browser. Others use Google’s specialized servers. They create text, …

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Salesforce Einstein Copilot generally available

Salesforce Einstein Copilot, an AI-powered tool for enterprise, is now generally available and is designed to help sales teams be more productive through generated text and automated actions. Einstein Copilot can break down and execute complex tasks, such as identifying the best sales opportunities and creating email drafts.