For the past 25 years, we’ve been devoted to the science and the craft of building a search engine. We’ve developed completely new ways to search, powered by our latest advancements in AI — whether that’s searching visually with Lens, or across modalities, using both images and text with multisearch. In fact, people now use Lens for 12 billion visual searches a month — a four-fold increase in just two years, and a growing number of those searches are multimodal.
With new breakthroughs in generative AI, we’re again reimagining what a search engine can do. With this powerful new technology, we can unlock entirely new types of questions you never thought Search could answer, and transform the way information is organized, to help you sort through and make sense of what’s out there.
Today we’re sharing a look at our first steps in this new era of Search, and you’ll be able to first try these generative AI capabilities in Search Labs, a new way to access early experiments in Search. — Read More
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Every Amazon division is working on generative AI projects
Just like pretty much every other major tech company, Amazon is placing a heavy focus on generative artificial intelligence. CEO Andy Jassy noted on Amazon’s latest earnings call that every division has multiple generative AI projects in the works.
“Inside Amazon, every one of our teams is working on building generative AI applications that reinvent and enhance their customers’ experience,” Jassy said. “But while we will build a number of these applications ourselves, most will be built by other companies, and we’re optimistic that the largest number of these will be built on [Amazon Web Services]. Remember, the core of AI is data. People want to bring generative AI models to the data, not the other way around.” — Read More
Google’s AI search is getting more video and better links
Google’s AI-powered Search Generative Experience is getting a big new feature: images and video. If you’ve enabled the AI-based SGE feature in Search Labs, you’ll now start to see more multimedia in the colorful summary box at the top of your search results. Google’s also working on making that summary box appear faster and adding more context to the links it puts in the box.
SGE may still be in the “experiment” phase, but it’s very clearly the future of Google Search. “It really gives us a chance to, now, not always be constrained in the way search was working before,” CEO Sundar Pichai said on Alphabet’s most recent earnings call. “It allows us to think outside the box.” He then said that “over time, this will just be how search works.” — Read More
A Silent New AI Bombshell Launch Nobody Saw Coming
Would you use a (great) free AI product that makes you the product?
Meta’s pulling out the big guns. LLaMA 2, their shiny new AI, is now open-source. Free for anyone. And I mean anyone. Your grandma, your dog, even your weird neighbor who still uses a flip phone.
But why?
Is it a noble quest for democratizing AI? Or a desperate attempt to catch up with the cool kids, Microsoft and Google? — Read More
No More Paperwork? Amazon AI Tool Transcribes Patient Visits for Doctors
Amazon’s AWS division today unveiled a new AI and speech-recogition tool intended to help doctors enter patient visit notes into their systems.
For now, AWS HealthScribe is only available as a preview in Northern Virginia (home of Amazon HQ2). But it promises to generate transcripts with “word-level timestamps” of patient visits, and automatically “identifies speaker roles, like patient and clinician, for each dialogue in the transcript,” Amazon says. — Read More
Google’s NEW TAPIR AI Features Have Everyone SHOCKED!
Apple sneaks into the AI chatbot race with ‘Apple GPT’
The iPhone maker has begun prepping an AI chatbot to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing, and Google Bard.
It’s the news we’ve all been waiting for. Apple is finally throwing its hat in the proverbial generative AI ring and joining, well, everybody else to contest for OpenAI’s artificial intelligence crown.
The news comes through reports from Bloomberg that the company is quietly working on a tool that engineers dub “Apple GPT,” indirectly referring to ChatGPT, the most famous AI chatbot and, until recently, fastest-growing ‘app’ of all time. — Read More
Qualcomm will work with Meta to add on-device Llama 2 support for smartphones and PCs
Earlier today we reported on Meta announcing and launching Llama 2, the next-generation version of its large language model for generative AI apps and services. Now, there’s word of a new partnership between Meta and Qualcomm that will allow Llama 2 to be used on mobile devices powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon chips.
In a press release, Qualcomm stated the goal was to allow those devices to run Llama 2-based apps and services on those devices, without the need for them to connect to a cloud-based service like other current generative AI products use such as ChatGPT and Bing Chat. — Read More
Meta’s latest AI model is free for all
The company hopes that making LLaMA 2 open source might give it the edge over rivals like OpenAI.
Meta is going all in on open-source AI. The company is today unveiling LLaMA 2, its first large language model that’s available for anyone to use—for free.
Since OpenAI released its hugely popular AI chatbot ChatGPT last November, tech companies have been racing to release models in hopes of overthrowing its supremacy. Meta has been in the slow lane. In February when competitors Microsoft and Google announced their AI chatbots, Meta rolled out the first, smaller version of LLaMA, restricted to researchers. But it hopes that releasing LLaMA 2, and making it free for anyone to build commercial products on top of, will help it catch up. — Read More
Meta claims its new art-generating model is best-in-class
… Today, Meta announced CM3Leon (“chameleon” in clumsy leetspeak), an AI model that the company claims achieves state-of-the-art performance for text-to-image generation. CM3Leon is also distinguished by being one of the first image generators capable of generating captions for images, laying the groundwork for more capable image-understanding models going forward, Meta says.
“With CM3Leon’s capabilities, image generation tools can produce more coherent imagery that better follows the input prompts,” Meta wrote in a blog post shared with TechCrunch earlier this week. “We believe CM3Leon’s strong performance across a variety of tasks is a step toward higher-fidelity image generation and understanding.” — Read More
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