Generative AI

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Microsoft this afternoon previewed its answer to Google’s AI-powered search experiences: Bing generative search. Available for only a “small percentage” of users at the moment, Bing generative search, underpinned by…

Bing previews its answer to Google’s AI Overviews

But the fate of many generative AI businesses — even the best-funded ones — looks murky.

VCs are still pouring billions into generative AI startups

If the models continue eating each other’s data, perhaps without even knowing it, they’ll progressively get weirder and dumber until they collapse.

‘Model collapse’: Scientists warn against letting AI eat its own tail

Content creators are busy people. Most spend more than 20 hours a week creating new content for their respective corners of the web. That doesn’t leave much time for audience…

Mark Zuckerberg imagines content creators making AI clones of themselves

Harvey, a startup building what it describes as an AI-powered “copilot” for lawyers, has raised $100 million in a Series C round led by GV, Google’s corporate venture arm. The…

OpenAI-backed legal tech startup Harvey raises $100M

Meta’s latest open source AI model is its biggest yet. Today, Meta said it is releasing Llama 3.1 405B, a model containing 405 billion parameters. Parameters roughly correspond to a…

Meta releases its biggest ‘open’ AI model yet

Meta AI, Meta’s AI-powered assistant across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and the web, can now speak in more languages and create stylized selfies. And, starting today, Meta AI users can route…

Meta AI gets new ‘Imagine me’ selfie feature

Adobe released new Firefly tools for Photoshop and Illustrator on Tuesday, offering graphic designers more ways to use the company’s in-house AI models. Adobe’s new features let creative workers describe…

Adobe releases new Firefly AI tools for Illustrator and Photoshop

Unlike OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral and many of its generative AI startup rivals, Cohere doesn’t have a big consumer focus.

Cohere raises $500M to beat back generative AI rivals

Meta has suspended the use of its AI assistant after Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) banned the company from training its AI models on personal data from Brazilians. The…

Meta puts a halt to training its generative AI tools in Brazil 

OpenAI introduced GPT-4o mini on Thursday, its latest small AI model. The company says GPT-4o mini, which is cheaper and faster than OpenAI’s current cutting-edge AI models, is being released…

OpenAI unveils GPT-4o mini, a smaller and cheaper AI model

TTT models, a new architecture, could effectively replace transformers if they scale up as their creators suggest they will.

TTT models might be the next frontier in generative AI

The Designer app features “prompt templates” that are designed to help jumpstart the creative process.

Microsoft’s AI-powered, Canva-like Designer app lands on iOS and Android

Pindrop builds deepfake-combatting and multi-factor authentication products targeting businesses in banking, finance and related industries.

Deepfake-detecting firm Pindrop lands $100M loan to grow its offerings

If you’ve ever bought a sofa online, have you thought about the homes you can see in the background of the product shots? When it’s time to release a new…

Presti is using GenAI to replace costly furniture industry photo shoots

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What exactly is an AI agent?

Regardless of how they’re defined, the agents are for helping complete tasks in an automated way with as little human interaction as possible.

What exactly is an AI agent?

A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a new bill that seeks to protect artists, songwriters and journalists from having their content used to train AI models or generate AI…

New Senate bill seeks to protect artists’ and journalists’ content from AI use

The AI chatbot has been trained on Amazon’s product catalog, customer reviews, community Q&As, and other public information found around the web.

Amazon AI chatbot Rufus is now live for all US customers

HerculesAI (formerly Zero Systems) has been working at automating professional services since 2017, originally concentrating on the legal industry. As part of that, it has actually been building large language…

HerculesAI was working with large language models long before it was cool

Generative AI is everywhere these days, but Amazon Web Services has been perceived in some circles as being late to the game. In reality it’s still early, and the market…

AWS App Studio promises to generate enterprise apps from a written prompt

Vimeo joins TikTok, YouTube and Meta in implementing a way for creators to label AI-generated content. The video hosting service announced on Wednesday that creators must now disclose to viewers…

Vimeo joins YouTube and TikTok in launching new AI content labels

Etsy has been grappling with an influx of generic “junk” and AI-generated products on its platform. The service revised its seller policy on Tuesday, introducing new labels that clarify whether…

Etsy adds AI-generated item guidelines in new seller policy 

A startup called DreamFlare AI is emerging from stealth on Tuesday with the goal of helping content creators make and monetize short-form AI-generated content. The company, co-founded by former Google…

Ex-Googler joins filmmaker to launch DreamFlare, a studio and streaming platform for AI-generated video

Quora says that Previews works best with chatbots that “excel” at programming, like Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro.

Quora’s Poe now lets users create and share web apps

Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are throwing their weight behind a new venture, Thrive AI Health, that aims to build AI-powered assistant tech to promote…

OpenAI Startup Fund backs AI healthcare venture with Arianna Huffington

Generative AI models don’t process text the same way humans do. Understanding their “token”-based internal environments may help explain some of their strange behaviors — and stubborn limitations. Most models,…

Tokens are a big reason today’s generative AI falls short

Meta plans to bring more generative AI tech into games, specifically VR, AR and mixed reality games, as the company looks to reinvigorate its flagging metaverse strategy. According to a…

Meta plans to bring generative AI to metaverse games

Simply submitting the request for a takedown doesn’t necessarily mean the content will be removed, however.

YouTube now lets you request removal of AI-generated content that simulates your face or voice

One of the earlier SaaS adherents to generative AI has been ServiceNow, which has been able to take advantage of the data in its own platform to help build more…

ServiceNow’s generative AI solutions are taking advantage of the data on its own platform

India’s top AI startups include those building LLMs and setting up the stage for AGI as well as bringing AI to cooking and serving farmers.

Here are India’s biggest AI startups based on how much money they’ve raised