In a significant legislative move, the US Congress is stepping up efforts to regulate the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) by introducing a bill aimed at ensuring transparency in the use of copyrighted materials by AI companies. The bill, spearheaded by Congressman Adam Schiff, seeks to demystify the vast datasets fueling generative AI models, … Read more
Google finally made a major move in Generative AI, launching Gemini, an ambitious multi-modal AI model that they hope will compete with GPT from OpenAI. The early demonstration videos of Gemini are impressive, as it is natively built to be multi-modal. It can handle text, images, video, audio both as inputs and outputs. Google’s Bard … Read more
Stability.ai announced the release of its Stable Video Diffusion foundation model for generating AI video from a text prompt. The model is available in research preview mode. You can learn more details in their research paper and see a demonstration in the video below:
Amazon announced that it will invest up to $4 Billion in Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude. Amazon will take a minority ownership stake in the company and announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) will become Anthropic’s principal cloud services provider. The initial investment will be $1.25 Billion, and it immediately thrusts Anthropic’s Claude 2 … Read more
To the surprise of almost no one, Apple has begun to quietly discuss their plans to move into the AI Arena with a series of intitatives that are (for the moment) being discussed internally as “Apple GPT.” Bloomberg reports that Apple has developed an internal framework (named ‘Ajax’) and a chat bot on their internal … Read more
OpenAI and its flagship ChatGPT have some new competition. Anthropic, another San Francisco-based startup, released it’s Claude 2 Chatbot to the public. It’s available only to USA and UK users at the moment. Anthopic, which was founded by former members of the OpenAI research team, aims to be a more ethically-driven company. The New York … Read more
Following the release of their “gee whiz” Zoom feature, MidJourney recently added an “Pan” feature, further enhancing MidJourney’s outpainting capabilities. You can pan in all four major directions (up, down, left, right) by clicking on the arrows that appear below an image in Midjourney. In the following example, the above photograph, shot in a familiar … Read more
What’s new: President Joe Biden is set to meet with leading artificial intelligence (AI) experts in San Francisco as part of an ongoing initiative by the U.S. government to understand and create regulation for AI. The goal is to avoid repeating past mistakes made with other emerging technologies such as social media and internet-based services. … Read more
Google announced a new Generative AI service called virtual try-on for apparel. It’s a model trained on Google’s vast collection of shopping data, and it allows you to virtually try on clothing and apparel using a wide range of body types, shapes, and sizes. Beginning today, US shoppers can “try on” women’s tops using the … Read more
According to a recent article in the Financial Times, the productivity revolution from Generative AI that many are predicting may take a while to arrive. Economists believe that the combination of a boom in generative artificial intelligence and pandemic-induced workplace changes could lead to a new era of faster productivity growth across the developed world, … Read more