AI — weekly megathread!
AI — weekly megathread!

AI — weekly megathread!

News provided by aibrews.com

  1. Twelve Labs announced video-language foundation model Pegasus-1 (80B) along with a new suite of Video-to-Text APIs. Pegasus-1 integrates visual, audio, and speech information to generate more holistic text from videos, achieving the new state-of-the-art performance in video summarization benchmarks [Details].
  2. Segmind announced open-source SSD-1B, the fastest diffusion-based text-to-image model. SSD-1B is 50% smaller and 60% faster compared to the SDXL 1.0 model with a minimal impact on image quality when compared to SDXL 1.0. Segmind has licensed it for commercial use [Detail].
  3. BostonDynamics has created a robot tour guide using Spot integrated with Chat GPT and other AI models as a proof of concept for the robotics applications of foundational models [Details].
  4. Jina AI launched jina-embeddings-v2 an Open-Source Text Embedding model with 8K context length, rivaling OpenAI’s proprietary model, text-embedding-ada-002 [Details].
  5. NVIDIA research developed Eureka- an AI agent that uses LLMs to automatically generate reward algorithms to train robots to accomplish complex tasks. Eureka has taught robots to open drawers and cabinets, perform rapid pen-spinning tricks, toss and catch balls, manipulate scissors among others [Details].
  6. Apple ML research introduces Matryoshka Diffusion (MDM), a new class of diffusion models for end-to-end high-resolution image and video synthesis. Distinct from existing works, MDM doesn't need a pre-trained VAE (e.g., SD) or training multiple upscaling modules [Hugging Face].
  7. Generative AI startup 1337 (Leet) is paying users to help create AI-driven influencers [Details].
  8. Meta research released an update of Habitat, an AI simulation platform for training robots on real-world interactions, alongside a 3D dataset, Habitat Synthetic Scenes Dataset. Habitat 3.0 supports both robots and humanoid avatars to enable human-robot collaboration on everyday tasks (e.g., tidying up the living room, preparing a recipe in the kitchen) [Details].
  9. Quora has launched Creator monetization program for its chatbot platform, Poe. It is currently available to US residents, but will be expanding to other countries soon [Details].
  10. Runway Studios in partnership with Artefacto announced OpenDocs - A program that provides selected documentary film projects with $2,500, an unlimited Runway plan and mentorship [Details].
  11. Google expands its bug bounty program to target generative AI attacks [Details].
  12. Amazon rolls out AI-powered image generation to help advertisers deliver a better ad experience for customers [Details].
  13. Google Search rolls out ‘About this Image’ feature, allowing access to image metadata including fields that may indicate that it has been generated or enhanced by AI [Details].
  14. OpenAI announced the AI Preparedness Challenge for ‘catastrophic misuse prevention’. Responses will be accepted on a rolling basis through December 31, 2023. [Details].

🔦 Weekly Spotlight

  1. AI products in the Time’s ‘The 200 Best Inventions of 2023’ list. Stability AI’s Stable Audio and Meta's SeamlessM4T are part of the list amongst others [Link].
  2. Nightshade, a new data poisoning tool, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models [Link].
  3. Twitter/X thread on the projects at the Dreamscape Creativity Hackathon [Link].

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