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Google’s Flagship Gemini AI Model Gets a Major Upgrade
Just two months after Alphabet made its Gemini AI model public, it’s rolling out a new version that can handle several times as much audio, video, and text input as GPT-4.
.406 Ventures secures $265M for fifth fund
When looking at startups within healthcare, data and AI and cybersecurity, the firm considers a number of factors like the plan for infrastructure, especially now that AI is everywhere. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Here Comes the Flood of AI-Generated Clickbait
This week, we look at how domain squatters are using generative AI tools to crank out clickbait, and ask what Google is doing about it.
Video generation models as world simulators
We explore large-scale training of generative models on video data. Specifically, we train text-conditional diffusion models jointly on videos and images of variable durations, resolutions and aspect ratios. We leverage a transformer architecture that operates on spacetime patches of video and image latent codes. Our largest model, Sora, is capable of generating a minute of high fidelity video. Our results suggest that scaling video generation models is a promising path towards building general purpose simulators of the physical world.
Using AI to discover stiff and tough microstructures
Innovative AI system from MIT CSAIL melds simulations and physical testing to forge materials with newfound durability and flexibility for diverse engineering uses.
‘AI Girlfriends’ Are a Privacy Nightmare
Romantic chatbots collect huge amounts of data, provide vague information about how they use it, use weak password protections, and aren’t transparent, new research from Mozilla says.
Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors
We terminated accounts associated with state-affiliated threat actors. Our findings show our models offer only limited, incremental capabilities for malicious cybersecurity tasks.
Airbnb plans to use AI, including its GamePlanner acquisition, to create the ‘ultimate concierge’
In November, Airbnb acquired a stealth AI firm launched by Siri’s co-founder, called GamePlanner.AI. The deal valued the secretive startup at around $200 million, according to reports. Though the hosting company didn’t telegraph its plans for GamePlanner at the time, Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky today shared a high-level overview of Airbnb’s larger plans […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
OpenAI Gives ChatGPT a Memory
ChatGPT is now like a first date who never forgets the details.
Otter brings GenAI to your meetings with AI summaries, AI chat and more
Otter, the AI-powered meeting assistant that transcribes audio in real time, is adding another layer of AI to its product with today’s introduction of Meeting GenAI, a new set of AI tools for meetings. Included with GenAI is an AI chatbot you can query to get information about past meetings you’ve recorded with Otter, an […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The One Internet Hack That Could Save Everything
It’s so simple: Axe 26 words from the Communications Decency Act. Welcome to a world without Section 230.
Memory and new controls for ChatGPT
We’re testing the ability for ChatGPT to remember things you discuss to make future chats more helpful. You’re in control of ChatGPT’s memory.
A new way to let AI chatbots converse all day without crashing
Researchers developed a simple yet effective solution for a puzzling problem that can worsen the performance of large language models such as ChatGPT.
Nick Hornby’s Brain-Bending Sculptures Twist History Into New Shapes
British sculptor Nick Hornby uses computer modeling to make mashups of famous artworks and historical figures that shift and change depending on your perspective.
DALL-E3 generates candy hearts
I've experimented a couple of times with generating candy heart messages using various kinds of machine learning algorithms. Originally, short messages were just about all the original text-generating neural networks could handle. Now we've come back around to approximately the same performance, yet with orders of
Martin Scorsese’s Squarespace Super Bowl Ad Wants You to Put Down Your Phone
In an interview with WIRED, the legendary director says, “It would probably take contact with extraterrestrials to catch our attention.”
Meet the Pranksters Behind Goody-2, the World’s ‘Most Responsible’ AI Chatbot
Self-righteous chatbot Goody-2 was built to take AI guardrails to an illogical extreme. The artists behind the project say there’s a serious point behind the gag.
Here’s the Thing AI Just Can’t Do
Google says its powerful new chatbot Gemini can supercharge your creativity. But who is really providing the creative spark?
Safer skies with self-flying helicopters
Autonomous helicopters made by Rotor Technologies, a startup led by MIT alumni, take the human out of risky commercial missions.
