Impressively, all the motions in the example videos appear lifelike and fluid — with subjects moving much faster and more naturally.Read More
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More François Chollet, a former Google engineer and the creator of the widely-used Python deep learning framework Keras, has co-founded Ndea, a new AI research and science lab, alongside Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier. In a post on the startup’s new website, the founders explain their goals of combining intuitive pattern recognition, enabled by deep learning, with
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More MiniMax is perhaps today best known here in the U.S. as the Singaporean company behind Hailuo, a realistic, high-resolution generative AI video model that competes with Runway, OpenAI’s Sora and Luma AI’s Dream Machine. But the company has far more tricks up its sleeve: Today, for instance, it announced the release and open-sourcing of the MiniMax-01
Even when it comes to non-reasoning LLMs such as Claude 3.5 Sonnet, there may be room for regular users to improve their prompting.Read More
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI is best known for its AI models, which to date exist primarily on cloud servers, its website and in its apps for PCs and mobile devices. However, the company is not limiting its ambitions to the software realm: Today on X, Caitlin Kalinowski, a member of the technical staff at OpenAI and previously head of
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Microsoft is doubling down on the potential of small language models (SLMs) with the unveiling of rStar-Math, a new reasoning technique that can be applied to small models to boost their performance on math problems using reasoning techniques — performance similar to, and in some cases exceeding, that of OpenAI’s o1-preview model. While still in a
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Even as its big investment partner OpenAI continues to announce more powerful reasoning models such as the latest o3 series, Microsoft is not sitting idly by. Instead, it’s pursuing the development of more powerful small models released under its own brand name. As announced by several current and former Microsoft researchers and AI scientists today on
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Facebook creator and Meta CEO Mark “Zuck” Zuckerberg shook the world again today when he announced sweeping changes to the way his company moderates and handles user-generated posts and content in the U.S. Citing the “recent elections” as a “cultural tipping point,” Zuck explained in a roughly five-minute-long video posted to his Facebook and Instagram accounts
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More I have a confession to make: Even though I’ve been a tech journalist for much of my career and consistently rushed to embrace, or at least test out, the latest and greatest in personal technology, I’ve never quite found voice assistants to be useful for me to use regularly. Part of that was because the tech
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More By all measures, 2024 was the biggest year for artificial intelligence yet — at least when it comes to the commercialization of the technology. The large language model (LLM) boom spurred on by ChatGPT’s launch in late 2022 showed no signs of slowing down, with numerous new LLMs introduced by not just OpenAI and stalwart tech