The rapid pace of generative AI news and announcements isn’t slowing down, even as we reach the final stretches of 2023 and the traditional winter holiday quiet period.
Just take a look at Microsoft Research, the blue sky division of the software giant, which today announced the release of its Phi-2 small language model (SML), a text-to-text AI program that is “small enough to run on a laptop or mobile device,” according to a post on X. – Read More
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Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4
Google has been an ‘AI-first company’ for nearly a decade. Now, a year into the AI era brought on by ChatGPT, it’s finally making a big move.
It’s the beginning of a new era of AI at Google, says CEO Sundar Pichai: the Gemini era. Gemini is Google’s latest large language model, which Pichai first teased at the I/O developer conference in June and is now launching to the public. To hear Pichai and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis describe it, it’s a huge leap forward in an AI model that will ultimately affect practically all of Google’s products. “One of the powerful things about this moment,” Pichai says, “is you can work on one underlying technology and make it better and it immediately flows across our products.” — Read More
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Microsoft Copilot for Windows 11 Gets GPT-4 Turbo and Dall-E 3
Copilot, the AI assistant baked into Windows 11, is getting some enhancements for more robust text and image generation, Microsoft said in a press release on Tuesday.
GPT-4 Turbo, the latest AI model by OpenAI, creators of ChatGPT, will be coming to Windows 11 in the coming weeks. Along with GPT-4 Turbo, Dall-E 3, a text-to-image generator also made by OpenAI, will be making its way to Microsoft’s operating system. Both of these new models will allow for smarter and more robust text and image generation with fewer errors. — Read More
ChatGPT for chemistry: AI and robots join forces to build new materials
An autonomous system that combines robotics with artificial intelligence (AI) to create entirely new materials has released its first trove of discoveries. The system, known as the A-Lab, devises recipes for materials, including some that might find uses in batteries or solar cells. Then, it carries out the synthesis and analyses the products — all without human intervention. Meanwhile, another AI system has predicted the existence of hundreds of thousands of stable materials, giving the A-Lab plenty of candidates to strive for in future. — Read More
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Oopsies: How OpenAI pulled off Sam Altman’s return? ‘72 intense hours of work,’ reveals interim CEO Shear
The Twitch co-founder was appointed as interim OpenAI CEO on November 20, three days after Altman’s ouster.
Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear, who joined OpenAI as interim CEO following Sam Altman’s ouster, on Wednesday revealed it took ‘72 very intense hours of work’ for the company to pull off Altman’s return, adding that he himself was ‘glad to have been a part of the solution.’ — Read More
OpenAI’s Misalignment and Microsoft’s Gain
I have, as you might expect, authored several versions of this Article, both in my head and on the page, as the most extraordinary weekend of my career has unfolded. To briefly summarize:
- On Friday, then-CEO Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI by the board that governs the non-profit; then-President Greg Brockman was removed from the board and subsequently resigned.
- Over the weekend rumors surged that Altman was negotiating his return, only for OpenAI to hire former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as CEO.
- Finally, late Sunday night, Satya Nadella announced via tweet that Altman and Brockman, “together with colleagues”, would be joining Microsoft.
This is, quite obviously, a phenomenal outcome for Microsoft. The company already has a perpetual license to all OpenAI IP (short of artificial general intelligence), including source code and model weights; the question was whether it would have the talent to exploit that IP if OpenAI suffered the sort of talent drain that was threatened upon Altman and Brockman’s removal. Indeed they will, as a good portion of that talent seems likely to flow to Microsoft; you can make the case that Microsoft just acquired OpenAI for $0 and zero risk of an antitrust lawsuit. — Read More
Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
Microsoft is hiring former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman.
Altman was fired from OpenAI on Friday, after the board said it “no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.” After a weekend of negotiations to potentially bring Altman back to OpenAI, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that both Sam Altman and Greg Brockman will be joining to lead Microsoft’s new advanced AI research team. — Read More
Amazon Is Building an LLM Twice the Size of OpenAI’s GPT-4
Few markets have grown as fast, in as short a time, as artificial intelligence (AI).
And as the technology is increasingly deployed across industries ranging from marketing, to payments, to insurance, execution speed is only becoming more important.
This, as per a Tuesday (Nov. 7) report, Amazon is working on an ambitious new large language model (LLM), which it could announce as soon as December.
Code named “Olympus,” the rumored LLM is set to be one of the largest foundation models ever trained at an alleged 2 trillion parameters — double that of the closest competitor, OpenAI’s state-of-the-art GPT-4 model, which has 1 trillion parameters. — Read More
Leo, Brave’s browser-native AI assistant, is now available in Nightly version for testing
… Brave Leo is a chat assistant hosted by Brave without the use of third-party AI services, available to Brave users on the desktop Nightly channel. The model behind Leo is Llama 2, a source-available large language model released by Meta with a special focus on safety. We’ve made sure that user inputs are always submitted anonymously through a reverse-proxy to our inference infrastructure. In this way, Brave can offer an AI experience with unparalleled privacy.
We’ve specifically tuned the model prompt to adhere to Brave’s core values. However, as with any other LLM, the outputs of the model should be treated with care for potential inaccuracies or errors. — Read More
RealFill: Reference-Driven Generation for Authentic Image Completion
Recent advances in generative imagery have brought forth outpainting and inpainting models that can produce high-quality, plausible image content in unknown regions, but the content these models hallucinate is necessarily inauthentic, since the models lack sufficient context about the true scene. In this work, we propose RealFill, a novel generative approach for image completion that fills in missing regions of an image with the content that should have been there. RealFill is a generative inpainting model that is personalized using only a few reference images of a scene. These reference images do not have to be aligned with the target image, and can be taken with drastically varying viewpoints, lighting conditions, camera apertures, or image styles. Once personalized, RealFill is able to complete a target image with visually compelling contents that are faithful to the original scene. We evaluate RealFill on a new image completion benchmark that covers a set of diverse and challenging scenarios, and find that it outperforms existing approaches by a large margin. — Read More
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