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Elon Musk’s xAI Announces Grok-1.5 With 128K Context Length
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Elon Musk's xAI firm has launched a new intermediate model called the Grok-1.5. It comes with improved reasoning capabilities and supports a large context length of 128K tokens. On the NIAH test, the model has shown great retrieval capability. xAI says early testers and existing Grok users will be able to access the model on X (formerly Twitter) in the coming days.
Snapchat Now Lets You Write Captions Using AI; Here’s How
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Snapchat offers an AI Caption feature that uses AI to analyze the image in your Snap and generate a caption based on its content. The feature is currently only available in a limited number of regions, including the US and UK and can only be used by Snapchat+ members. You can create AI Captions on Snapchat by taking a Snap first and then navigating to T icon > AI captions.
GPT-5 Might Release in Summer 2024; ‘Materially Better’ Than GPT-4
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The ChatGPT maker, OpenAI, is reportedly planning to release the GPT-5 model during the summer of this year. A new report says that OpenAI has already demoed the GPT-5 model to a few enterprise customers and one of the CEOs called it "materially better" than GPT-4. OpenAI is also working on AI agents that can perform complex actions.
Microsoft Appoints Google Deepmind Co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to Lead Its AI Efforts
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In another reshuffle, Microsoft has hired Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of Google DeepMind, and Inflection to lead AI innovations at Microsoft. Suleyman will oversee the development of Copilot, Edge, and Bing and how AI can be leveraged to make meaningful product improvements.
8 Best AI Voice Generators in 2024
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This list will offer some of the best options in the realm of AI powered tools that can reproduce human like voice from given text. These include options like the popular Speechify voice generator and other tools like Play.HT that generate almost natural voice-overs. You can try out any of the ones that we have mentioned in this list and see which one works best for you.
LimeWire AI API Review: Seamless Content Creation for Developers
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If you are a developer building AI products, LimeWire AI API offers great flexibility and pricing. It hosts multiple Diffusion models from OpenAI, Stability AI, Google, etc. to deliver generative AI features. You can use the API to generate images, upscale images, inpaint, and oupaint images as well. In our testing, the API performed pretty well. Not to mention, the API implementation is straightforward and supports many popular languages.
Google Demos a New AI That Can Play Video Games with You
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The Google DeepMind team has developed a generalized AI agent called SIMA that can perform actions in a wide range of virtual games. Google has trained the AI agent on nine video games including No Man's Sky, Teardown, Valheim, and more. It can carry out tasks even on unseen video games which makes it a unique AI agent.
OpenAI Blog Leaks GPT-4.5 Turbo; Sparks Interest
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OpenAI might be working to release an intermediate GPT-4.5 Turbo model before launching the next-gen GPT-5 model. It was leaked through the OpenAI Blog page which was indexed by Bing and DuckDuckGo. The upcoming model promises better "speed, accuracy, and scalability" than the GPT-4 Turbo model. However, strangely, the captured description says the model will have a knowledge cutoff of up to June 2024.
You Can Now Upload Files to Copilot on Windows 11; Here’s How
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Microsoft is slowly adding new features to Copilot on Windows 11. Copilot has finally received the file upload capability on Windows 11. You can upload a range of documents including PDF, DOC, XLS, PPT, TXT, and more. Copilot seamlessly ingests the documents and answers from the provided document accurately. From analyzing financial sheets to summarizing PDFs and understanding private code documentation, the feature can be immensely helpful to all kinds of users.
Elon Musk Says xAI to Open-Source Grok This Week
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After filing a lawsuit against OpenAI for becoming a closed-source company, Elon Musk has now announced that xAI's Grok model will be open-sourced this week. Musk founded xAI in March last year to rival OpenAI and released its first preview model in November. However, Grok has not been received well and it's highly prone to hallucination. Open-sourcing the model may help the company improve Grok on many fronts.
Microsoft’s Seeing AI Mobile App Can Help Visually Impaired Users
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Microsoft launched the Seeing AI app with AI features during its Ability Summit 2024. The app is powered by AI and allows low-vision users to make sense of the world by hearing descriptions of scenes, images, products, currency, and more. You can install the app on Android and iOS for free. It's currently available in 33 languages, and Microsoft is planning to bring support for 36 languages by the end of 2024.
You Can Now Edit and Modify Google Gemini Responses; Here’s How
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Google's latest update for Gemini allows users to modify and regenerate specific portions of a response according to their preferences. The feature can be used to replace portions of text with a different prompt or you can simply ask Gemini to regenerate selected text or make it shorter or longer. The new feature is available for everyone but is limited to the Gemini web app.
Microsoft is Holding a Surface, Windows & Copilot AI Event Later This Month
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Microsoft has announced a new event for March 21st where the company is likely to unveil Windows 11 improvements, new Copilot features, and refreshed Surface devices. The company may release refreshed versions of Surface Laptop 6 and Surface Pro 10. Microsoft is also preparing to showcase an advanced version of Copilot with a new feature called "AI Explorer".
How to Download and Run Google Gemma AI Model on PC and Mac
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If you have a low-end computer, you can download and run Google's open-source Gemma model on Windows, macOS, and Linux. The model is just 1.5GB in size and takes up around 1.4GB RAM. For creative tasks in English, the model does a good job while running offline. You can download LM Studio and load the model to start using it right away.
How to Access Claude 3 API for Opus and Sonnet Models (With Examples)
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Anthropic has immediately released APIs for its Claude 3 models including Opus and Sonnet. The company says API access for the smallest Haiku model is coming pretty soon. While the API pricing for the Claude 3 models is high, users and developers are keen to test the Opus model, which according to Anthropic, beats GPT-4 and Gemini 1.0 Ultra. We have also added some code examples so go through our detailed tutorial.
Anthropic Announces Claude 3 AI Models; Beats GPT-4 and Gemini 1.0 Ultra
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Anthropic has released a new family of Claude 3 models -- Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku. The largest and most capable Claude 3 Opus model beats GPT-4 and Gemini 1.0 Ultra in all major benchmarks. According to Anthropic, all three models support a context window of 200K tokens and deliver 99% accuracy with great recall. Plus, they come with vision capability as well.
AI Models in India to Require Govt Approval; What are the Implications?
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The Indian IT Ministry (MeitY) has issued a new advisory for tech companies offering AI models and services in India. The advisory asks tech firms to get approval before deploying "untested" AI models in India. The government later clarified that the advisory applies to large companies like Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, etc., and not startups. The advisory also requests companies to embed permanent metadata in generated data to easily identify the first originator.
How to Sign Up for Gemini 1.5 Pro Waitlist to Get Early Access
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You can sign up for the Gemini 1.5 Pro waitlist via Google AI Studio and get early access to the flagship model with a context window of 1 million tokens. The model is currently in preview, so Google is offering access for free to test and evaluate the model. That said, there is no API available for Gemini 1.5 Pro yet, just like Gemini 1.0 Ultra.
Elon Musk Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman Over AGI Fear
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In a surprising turn of events, Elon Musk has sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman in the San Francisco Superior Court on Thursday. Musk claims that OpenAI has become a closed-source company and it's only developing new technologies to maximize profits. Further, Musk says that Microsoft is leveraging its power and influencing OpenAI's operations. Musk is seeking an injunction against OpenAI and Microsoft from taking advantage of the AGI technology and cashing in for profits.
We got our hands on the Gemini 1.5 Pro model via Google AI Studio, and after probing the model on a multitude of tests, we can say that Google has finally delivered an immensely powerful AI model. It's easily on par with GPT-4 model by OpenAI and surpasses Google's largest Gemini 1.0 Ultra model. It's excellent at advanced reasoning, can process videos, handles large corpus of data in a single window, and you can do so much more. Read our detailed comparison between Gemini 1.5 Pro, Gemini 1.0 Ultra, and GPT-4.
After Gemini generated some inaccurate and offensive images, Google has been accused of anti-white bias by critics from many quarters. In response, Google has temporarily turned off image generation of people in Gemini. Moreover, many accuse Google of aggressively tuning the model to represent diversity which seems to have backfired. So what explains this debacle and Google's overall approach to AI? Read on to find out.