Kyle Wiggers
Google’s going all in on AI — and it wants you to know it. During the company’s keynote at its I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google mentioned “AI” more than 120 times. That’s a lot!
But not all of Google’s AI announcements were significant per se. Some were incremental. Others...
Google says it’s developed a new family of generative AI models “fine-tuned” for learning: LearnLM.
A collaboration between Google’s DeepMind AI research division and Google Research, LearnLM models — built on top of Google’s Gemini models — are designed to “conversationally” tutor students on a range of subjects, Google says.
LearnLM...
OpenAI is releasing a new flagship generative AI model called GPT-4o, set to roll out “iteratively” across the company’s developer and consumer-facing products over the next few weeks. The “o” in GPT-4o stands for “omni” — referring to GPT-4o’s multimodality.
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati said that GPT-4o provides “GPT-4-level” intelligence...
In 2021, Google kicked off work on Project Starline, a corporate-focused teleconferencing platform that uses 3D imaging, cameras and a custom-designed screen to let people converse with someone as if they were in the same room — more or less.
Now, after years of testing and private technical previews...
The U.K. Safety Institute, the U.K.’s recently established AI safety body, has released a toolset designed to “strengthen AI safety” by making it easier for industry, research organizations and academia to develop AI evaluations.
Called Inspect, the toolset — which is available under an open source license, specifically an MIT...
In the third episode of “Creative Dialogues,” an interview series produced by the filmmaking division of generative AI startup Runway, multimedia artist Claire Hentschker expresses a fear that AI will commoditize the artistic process to the point where art homogenizes, regressing to a sort of derivative sameness.
“Are you getting...
How does Amazon CTO Werner Vogels — a man worth untold millions, who during the COVID-19 pandemic bought outright the small Central Amsterdam Airbnb he’d been living in — spend his days? From the looks of it: building AI-powered meeting-summarizing apps. Go figure.
In a post this week on Vogels’...
Close to a decade ago, brothers Aviv and Matteo Shapira co-founded Replay, a company that created a video format for 360-degree replays — the sorts of replays that have become part and parcel of major sports broadcasts.
Replay caught the attention of Intel, which acquired the company in 2016 for...
Amazon is launching a new tool, Bedrock Studio, designed to let organizations experiment with generative AI models, collaborate on those models, and ultimately build generative AI-powered apps.
Available in public preview starting today, the web-based Bedrock Studio — a part of Bedrock, Amazon’s generative AI tooling and hosting platform —...
At its iPad-focused event on Monday, Apple announced a new and improved Magic Keyboard, its keyboard accessory for iPad.
The Magic Keyboard has been “completely redesigned” to be much thinner and lighter, Apple says, and now includes a function row for quick access to controls like screen brightness, volume adjustment...
