Meta announces new AI model that can generate video with sound

Meta announces new AI model that can generate video with sound

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg holds a smartphone, as he makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S. September 25, 2024.  Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Facebook owner Meta announced on Friday it had built a new AI model called Movie Gen that can create realistic-seeming … Read more

Meta’s Movie Gen Makes Convincing AI Video Clips

Meta’s Movie Gen Makes Convincing AI Video Clips

Meta just announced its own media-focused AI model, called Movie Gen, that can be used to generate realistic video and audioclips. The company shared multiple 10-second clips generated with Movie Gen, including a Moo Deng-esque baby hippo swimming around, to demonstrate its capabilities. While the tool is not yet available for use, this Movie Gen … Read more

Trudeau to talk about AI as Francophonie summit kicks off – National

Trudeau to talk about AI as Francophonie summit kicks off – National

By Nojoud Al Mallees The Canadian Press Posted October 4, 2024 7:34 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to take part in an armchair discussion on artificial intelligence in France on Friday as the Francophonie summit kicks off. Trudeau is scheduled to talk … Read more

California schools will be required to integrate AI into curriculum

California schools will be required to integrate AI into curriculum

Among at least 17 artificial intelligence-related bills signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom recently is a bill that will integrate AI literacy into K-12 curriculum throughout the state. “AB 2876 responds to the rapid proliferation of AI in nearly every aspect of young people’s lives, as well as the impact AI will have on their futures,” … Read more

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Breaks Out of Its Box—and Onto a Canvas

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Breaks Out of Its Box—and Onto a Canvas

Although both writing and coding modes give the choice of requesting in-line edits, the bifurcated user interface for canvas is designed with one additional set of shortcuts for those focused on AI-assisted writing and another for coders. In the demo, Levine showed off how the writer’s shortcut could be used to condense the number of … Read more

Google’s Visual Search Can Now Answer Even More Complex Questions

Google’s Visual Search Can Now Answer Even More Complex Questions

When Google Lens was introduced in 2017, the search feature accomplished a feat that not too long ago would have seemed like the stuff of science fiction: Point your phone’s camera at an object and Google Lens can identify it, show some context, maybe even let you buy it. It was a new way of … Read more

OpenAI gets $4 billion revolving credit line on top of latest funding

OpenAI gets  billion revolving credit line on top of latest funding

OpenAI has a $4 billion revolving line of credit, bringing its total liquidity to more than $10 billion, CNBC has learned. It follows news on Wednesday that OpenAI closed its recent funding round at a valuation of $157 billion, including the $6.6 billion the company raised from an extensive roster of investment firms and big … Read more

AI Firm OpenAI Raises More Funds, Boosting Its Valuation To $157 Billion

AI Firm OpenAI Raises More Funds, Boosting Its Valuation To 7 Billion

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company known for ChatGPT, said it has raised $6.6 billion in new funding. The new funds boost the company’s valuation to $157 billion, double its level at the start of the year. “We are making progress on our mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity,” the company … Read more

For Nvidia, spatial AI and the ‘omniverse’ may be the next big thing

For Nvidia, spatial AI and the ‘omniverse’ may be the next big thing

While ChatGPT created a new way to use our devices, technology is more than just what we see on our screens. Research in the realm of spatial artificial intelligence and robotics is developing as we speak, and it’s bringing the technological focus back into the physical world. “When we’re talking about AI, people are mostly … Read more

Hacking Generative AI for Fun and Profit

Hacking Generative AI for Fun and Profit

You hardly need ChatGPT to generate a list of reasons why generative artificial intelligence is often less than awesome. The way algorithms are fed creative work often without permission, harbor nasty biases, and require huge amounts of energy and water for training are all serious issues. Putting all that aside for a moment, though, it … Read more