Enlarge / The real Will Smith eating spaghetti, parodying an AI-generated video from 2023. reader comments 110 On Monday, Will Smith posted a video on his official Instagram feed that parodied an AI-generated video of the actor eating spaghetti that went viral last year. With the recent announcement of OpenAI’s Sora video synthesis model, many… Read More »
reader comments 77 On Friday, Bloomberg reported that Reddit has signed a contract allowing an unnamed AI company to train its models on the site’s content, according to people familiar with the matter. The move comes as the social media platform nears the introduction of its initial public offering (IPO), which could happen as soon… Read More »
Enlarge / A photo of Galactic Compass running on an iPhone. Matt Webb / Getty Images reader comments 51 On Thursday, designer Matt Webb unveiled a new iPhone app called Galactic Compass, which always points to the center of the Milky Way galaxy—no matter where Earth is positioned on our journey through the stars. The… Read More »
Enlarge / Snapshots from three videos generated using OpenAI’s Sora. reader comments 172 On Thursday, OpenAI announced Sora, a text-to-video AI model that can generate 60-second-long photorealistic HD video from written descriptions. While it’s only a research preview that we have not tested, it reportedly creates synthetic video (but not audio yet) at a fidelity… Read More »
Enlarge / The Gemini 1.5 logo, released by Google. reader comments 36 One week after its last major AI announcement, Google appears to have upstaged itself. Last Thursday, Google launched Gemini Ultra 1.0, which supposedly represented the best AI language model Google could muster—available as part of the renamed “Gemini” AI assistant (formerly Bard). Today,… Read More »
reader comments 65 On Tuesday, Nvidia released Chat With RTX, a free personalized AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT that can run locally on a PC with an Nvidia RTX graphics card. It uses Mistral or Llama open-weights LLMs and can search through local files and answer questions about them. Chat With RTX works on Windows… Read More »
Enlarge / When ChatGPT looks things up, a pair of green pixelated hands look through paper records, much like this. Just kidding. Benj Edwards / Getty Images reader comments 17 On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it is experimenting with adding a form of long-term memory to ChatGPT that will allow it to remember details between… Read More »
Nvidia / Benj Edwards reader comments 78 On Monday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that every country should control its own AI infrastructure so it can protect its culture, Reuters reports. He called this concept “Sovereign AI,” which an Nvidia blog post defined as each country owning “the production of their own intelligence.” Huang made… Read More »
reader comments 40 On Thursday, Google announced that its ChatGPT-like AI assistant, previously called Bard, is now called “Gemini,” renamed to reflect the underlying AI language model Google launched in December. Additionally, Google has launched its most capable AI model, Ultra 1.0, for the first time as part of “Gemini Advanced,” a $20/month subscription feature.… Read More »
Enlarge / With so many choices, selecting the perfect GPT can be confusing. reader comments 13 On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a new feature in ChatGPT that allows users to pull custom personalities called “GPTs” into any ChatGPT conversation with the @ symbol. It allows a level of quasi-teamwork within ChatGPT among expert roles that was… Read More »