🎯OpenAI faces critical test as Chinese models close the gap in AI leadership!
And:Elon Musk files for injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit and much more!
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🌟 Get ready for an exciting journey into the world of AI! We’re on the brink of groundbreaking advancements that will redefine our everyday experiences in ways we can only imagine.
In this edition of your AI Bulletin, we’ve packed in a wealth of thrilling updates and inspiring stories that highlight the amazing innovations and applications popping up every day. Join me as we delve into this dynamic AI landscape and discover the incredible possibilities that lie ahead!
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For today, we brought to the table🔥💥!
🤖Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model, it's researchers unveil Marco-o1, an LLM with advanced reasoning capabilities
🔗Google Gemini’s Imagen 3 lets players design their own chess pieces, Google Labs has launched GenChess, an online project that offers a playful twist on chess. This web experiment utilizes Gemini Imagen 3, Google’s image generation model, enabling players to customize their chess pieces with text prompts.
🎯ElevenLabs’ new feature is a NotebookLM competitor for creating GenAI podcasts, On Wednesday, voice AI startup ElevenLabs launched a feature that allows users to upload various content types to create a multispeaker podcast, similar to Google’s NotebookLM.
🕵️♂️Bluesky won’t use your posts for AI training, but can it stop anyone else?, On November 27, a Hugging Face employee published data from 1 million Bluesky posts scraped from its API to an AI repository. Although he has since removed it and apologized, 404 Media reports that the dataset was "trending" all day. Bluesky is exploring ways to "specify consent (or not) for AI training" but acknowledges that it will be up to outside developers to respect these settings.
🔥On Tuesday, Ai2, the nonprofit AI research organization founded by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, released OLMo 2, the second family of models in its OLMo series. (OLMo is short for “open language model.”)
🛰️Anthropic says Claude AI can match your unique writing style!
📰Chinese researchers unveil LLaVA-o1 to challenge OpenAI’s o1 model, OpenAI's o1 model demonstrates that increasing compute during inference can greatly enhance a language model's reasoning skills. LLaVA-o1, a new model created by researchers from various Chinese universities, applies this approach to open-source vision language models (VLMs).
🔍MIT researchers have created an AI tool that generates realistic satellite images of potential future flooding scenarios. This method combines a generative AI model with a physics-based flood model for accurate visualizations. When tested, the tool produced more realistic images of Houston following a storm similar to Hurricane Harvey, outperforming an AI-only approach.
AI News From Around the World!
🤖Google’s connecting Spotify to its Gemini AI assistant, Once it’s live on your account, you can find and play music from Spotify through Gemini on Android.
👨💻Zoom 2.0 relaunches as an AI-first company without video in its name, Years after its pandemic boom, Zoom Communications is still trying to compete with Big Tech rivals.
📈Nvidia claims a new AI audio generator can make sounds never heard before, Fugatto can generate and edit music, speech, or sounds based on a text prompt.
Uber is building a fleet of gig workers to label data for AI models, Uber is expanding its gig workforce by creating a new category for AI annotation and data labeling. The company has begun hiring contractors for its new division, Scaled Solutions, which handles projects for Uber's internal units and external clients, including self-driving vehicle company Aurora Innovation and video game developer Niantic, according to Bloomberg.
🎉Elon Musk to open AI video game studio to make games great again, The tycoon says that current video games belong to big corporations. His new studio will do the same.
Microsoft dismisses claims it’s using Word and Excel data to train AI, A blog post written by author Casey Lawrence initially voiced concerns, The blog includes instructions on how to opt out of the AI training policy.
📊Luma AI's Dream Machine platform enables AI-driven video creation with user-friendly interfaces and advanced features, such as consistent character representation across videos from a single image. This subscription-based platform caters to both casual creators and professionals. Dream Machine leverages the new Luma Photon image generation model, built on Luma's Universal Transformer architecture, making it eight times faster and more cost-effective than similar models.
📅Investments in AI!
🖥️OpenAI Allows Employees to Sell $1.5 Bln Stock to SoftBank
🧩Mount Sinai Finally Opens Doors to New Center for AI
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