AI News Update: Zuckerberg's Meta AI Plans, Microsoft Designer, and More!
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta wants to ‘introduce AI agents to billions of people’
This article discusses Mark Zuckerberg's comments on Meta's plans to introduce AI agents to its apps, as well as the company's financial performance in the first quarter of 2021.
Key takeaways:
Meta is exploring AI chat experiences in WhatsApp and Messenger, visual creation tools for posts in Facebook and Instagram, and video and multi-modal experiences.
Meta has invested heavily in its AI infrastructure and is expected to release generative AI products in the coming months.
Meta is still committed to the metaverse, despite its losses in the Reality Labs division.
Microsoft Designer expands preview with new AI design features
This article discusses the importance of creativity and how Microsoft 365 is striving to empower individuals to achieve great things with new tools that help unleash creativity and imagination.
Key takeaways:
Microsoft Designer simplifies the creative journey by helping users get started quickly, augment creative workflows, and overcome creative roadblocks.
Microsoft Designer leverages cutting-edge generative AI technology to assist and empower users to create unique and high-quality graphics in less time.
Microsoft Designer in Edge is built natively into the Edge sidebar and can be accessed by clicking on the Designer icon.
AI startup Pinecone raises $100 million as vector database market for LLMs heats up
This article discusses the success of Pinecone, a vector database company, and the rise of generative AI.
Key takeaways:
Pinecone has raised $100 million in series B funding at a $750 million valuation.
Pinecone helps engineers connect chatbots with their own company data to provide the right answer.
Generative AI has become a boardroom-level discussion and Pinecone has seen an explosion in paying customers.
Introducing Eleven Multilingual v1: Our New Speech Synthesis Model
https://beta.elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-multilingual-v1/
This article introduces Eleven Multilingual v1, a speech synthesis model that supports seven new languages, and discusses the potential applications of this technology.
Key takeaways:
Eleven Multilingual v1 is an advanced speech synthesis model that supports seven new languages.
This technology has the potential to create more localized, accessible, and imaginative content.
AI audio has the potential to level the playing field for creators, small businesses, and independent artists.
Stability AI releases DeepFloyd IF, a powerful text-to-image model that can smartly integrate text into images
https://stability.ai/blog/deepfloyd-if-text-to-image-model
This article discusses the research release of DeepFloyd IF, a powerful text-to-image cascaded pixel diffusion model, by Stability AI and its multimodal AI research lab DeepFloyd.
Key takeaways:
DeepFloyd IF is a state-of-the-art text-to-image model released on a non-commercial, research-permissible license.
DeepFloyd IF incorporates the intelligence of the T5 model and can generate coherent and clear text alongside objects of different properties appearing in various spatial relations.
DeepFloyd IF has a zero-shot FID score of 6.66 on the COCO dataset and can generate images with a non-standard aspect ratio.
Palantir Demos AI to Fight Wars But Says It Will Be Totally Ethical Don’t Worry About It
https://stability.ai/blog/deepfloyd-if-text-to-image-model
This article discusses Palantir's new Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) software, which is designed to run large language models like GPT-4 on private networks.
Key takeaways:
Palantir's AIP software is designed to run large language models like GPT-4 on private networks.
The AIP software can be used to generate plans of attack and automate jamming systems.
Palantir claims that its AIP software will provide control over what AI systems can and cannot do, and will generate a secure digital record of operations.
Italy lifts ban on ChatGPT after data privacy improvements
https://www.dw.com/en/ai-italy-lifts-ban-on-chatgpt-after-data-privacy-improvements/a-65469742
ChatGPT, an AI chatbot, has been reinstated in Italy after its owners addressed data privacy concerns.
Key takeaways:
OpenAI, the US-based and Microsoft-backed company that developed the chatbot, implemented changes to comply with several data privacy conditions.
The platform now grants users certain opt-out rights, including being able to toggle off the option for conversations to be used for training ChatGPT's algorithms.
The site also now has checks to protect children under 13, with age verification in place for those accessing the site from Italy.
Stability AI releases StableVicuna, the AI World’s First Open Source RLHF LLM Chatbot
https://stability.ai/blog/stablevicuna-open-source-rlhf-chatbot
This article discusses the development and release of chatbots, and introduces the first large-scale open source RLHF LLM chatbot, StableVicuna.
Key takeaways:
Instruction finetuning and reinforcement learning through human feedback (RLHF) are two training paradigms used to build chat models.
Open Assistant, Anthropic, and Stanford have begun to make chat RLHF datasets readily available to the public.
StableVicuna is the first large-scale open source chatbot trained via reinforced learning from human feedback (RHLF).