Meta integrates more AI image features

Meta is expanding its “Imagine” AI image creation features to Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. Users can now use text input to create AI-generated images directly in their feeds, stories and for profile pictures. This was reported by Sarah Perez at TechCrunch. According to Meta, the new features should make posts more attractive and help them …

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Updates from Google and Meta

Google wants to improve the accuracy of its AI models. To avoid “hallucinations,” the company is working with partners such as Moody’s, Thomson Reuters, and ZoomInfo who will feed the AI systems with up-to-date information. A new “confidence score” is also supposed to indicate how confident the AI is in its answer being correct. With …

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Image generator Stable Diffusion 3 Medium works on PCs with limited performance

Stability AI has released Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, a smaller version of its image generation model that can run on PCs with as little as 5GB of VRAM. According to Stability AI, the model offers comparable quality to the larger version and could therefore be an attractive option for users with limited resources.

Microsoft Florence-2 is specialized on image processing

Microsoft has unveiled Florence-2, a versatile AI model that can handle various image processing tasks with a single, unified approach. Available under an MIT license, the model appears to outperform larger specialized models in areas such as image annotation and object recognition, despite its compact size, and could help companies save on investments in separate …

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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.

Ideogram can generate seamless patterns

The Ideogram AI image generator has added Ideogram Tile, a new feature for creating seamless, repeating patterns from a single text prompt.

Meta adds AI tools for advertisers

Meta’s new AI tools allow advertisers to create not just backgrounds, but entire images to generate product variations. However, this feature also carries the risk of tricking customers with non-existent products, although Meta emphasizes that it has taken strict security precautions.

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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