The captain's log
A relatively brief round-up of what's occurring in the world of generative AI, neatly corralled under the following headings:
- AI and Content Creation
- AI and Marketing
- AI and Business
- Frontier AI Models
- AI Tools and Innovations
- AI Agents and Automation
- AI Regulation and Ethics
- AI Adoption
- AI and Health
- And finally…
AI and Content Creation
Pika , the AI-powered video generator, has released version 1.5 with more realistic movement, big screen camera effects (for example, think The Matrix films' Bullet Time effect), and “Pikaffects” - video effects which include “melt”, “crush”, “blow up”, and “turn anything into cake.”
AI-powered video editing/avatar generating app Captions is rolling out a new tool for websites content managers. It can create video publishing schedules and even generate videos based on subjects or themes that are relevant to the site.?
TikTok creator 字节跳动 , announced two new powerful AI video generators: PixelDance and Seaweed. PixelDance offers multi-shot consistent character animation. Seaweed offers environmental generation. The generators, released at an event in China, are still in beta and only available to a limited number of users. However, the models could be publicly available next month, depending on the outcome of the U.S. general election…
谷歌 launched a new Google Ads AI image editor to help create new high quality image assets.? Originally designed for Performance Max campaigns, it can now be used on search, display, app and demand gen campaigns. And, here’s how you use it:
Black Forest Labs updated its widely acclaimed, open source AI image generator, Flux 1.1 Pro. It now offers six times faster generation than its predecessor as well as improved image quality, realism and prompt adherence.?
KLING - AI Videos added one of the most accurate lip sync tools to its AI-powered video generator platform. This builds on a number of updates Kling introduced over the past few weeks including a new v1.5 model, community features and motion brush - a tool that lets you highlight the precise elements in an image to animate.
Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe Photoshop Elements got AI updates and can now be accessed from web browsers.
微软 Paint (yes, it still exists) got Photoshop-style AI-powered generative fill and generative erase features.
Meta announced a new artificial intelligence model called Movie Gen that can create realistic-looking video up to 16 seconds long and audio clips up to 45 seconds long. Meta claimed it rivals media generation tools from companies like OpenAI and ElevenLabs. Despite announcing Movie Gen, Meta, reportedly, “[isn’t] ready to release this as a product anytime soon,” as it’s still expensive and generation time is too long.
AI and Marketing
Google will begin to show ads in AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries it supplies for certain Google Search queries, and will add links to relevant web pages for some of those summaries to boot.
Bloomreach announced the next generation of its ecommerce marketing automation platform, Bloomreach Engagement , promising? to reduce omnichannel campaign creation from weeks to minutes.
亿滋食品 unveiled a new AI-driven global marketing platform. It was developed in partnership with 埃森哲 and Publicis Groupe and uses AI and generative AI to streamline the creation of personalised content, such as text, images and videos, more efficiently and more quickly.
谷歌 published a post on how it uses AI in its own marketing
AI and Business
How AI-enabled process automation, efficiency and other top benefits now happen at a scale and scope to deliver business transformation and disruption, not just incremental gains.
From farm to future: AI automation for the food supply chain
谷歌 published nearly 50 new customer case studies from organisations around the world to highlight the impact of generative AI at scale.
Perplexity looks to eventually challenge 亚马逊 with the launch of an integrated Pro Shopping option.
Professional services firm 埃森哲 and chip manufacturer 英伟达 have expanded their partnership with the formation of Accenture’s new NVIDIA Business Group, which aims to help clients lay the foundation for developing and integrating AI agents. Accenture reported $3 billion in AI-driven bookings in its most recent fiscal year.
Frontier AI Models
OpenAI raised $6.6 Billion in fresh funds at a $157 Billion value, as it moves away from its non profit roots.
It’s the interface, stupid. OpenAI launched GPT-4o with a new "Canvas" feature that opens a separate window alongside the normal chat interface, providing a workspace for writing and coding projects, not totally unlike Anthropic ’s Claude Artifacts. Users can highlight sections to have ChatGPT edit, improve, or explain them. Currently, it is only available in the web version of GPT-4o and only to Plus and Team users, with Enterprise and Edu users expected to follow shortly.
OpenAI may increase the price of its ChatGPT Plus subscription from $20 to $22 per month by the end of 2024, and then to $44 per month by 2029.
谷歌 announced updates to its Gemini model lineup: Gemini-1.5-Pro-002 and Gemini-1.5-Flash-002. The company reported improvements in overall quality, with notable gains in math, long context handling and vision tasks.
But, the real story is… 谷歌 also introduced substantial price reductions for Gemini 1.5 Pro, cutting input token costs by 64 percent and output token costs by 52 percent for prompts under 128,000 tokens. For comparison, GPT-4o is currently $5 per million tokens input and $15 per million tokens output. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is $3 per million input and $15 per million output. Gemini 1.5 Pro was already the cheapest of the frontier models and now it's even cheaper.
谷歌 announced that it is making Gemini Live available in more than 40 languages. Gemini Live is Google’s answer to OpenAI ’s Advanced Voice Mode or Meta ’s Voice Interactions .
Microsoft Copilot was updated and can now read your screen, “think deeply”, and speak aloud to you with a more “warm” and “distinct” style, according to Microsoft. Updated Copilot apps for iOS, Android, Windows and the web were also rolled out.
微软 is now going to pay publishers for content that will appear in Copilot Daily, a new feature of its Copilot AI-powered, cross-platform assistant.
Meta announced the release of Llama 3.2, a significant update to its open-weights AI model lineup. The new release includes vision-capable large language models (LLMs) in 11 billion and 90B parameter sizes, as well as lightweight text-only models of 1B and 3B parameters designed for edge and mobile devices. Meta claims the vision models are competitive with leading closed-source models on image recognition and visual understanding tasks, while the smaller models reportedly outperform similar-sized competitors on various text-based tasks.
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Anthropic released a Claude AI app for Android, having released the iOS app back in May.
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AI Tools and Innovations
No time to read? 谷歌 ’s new AI tool, NotebookLM, will turn anything into a podcast. And, now can use YouTube and audio files as sources.
谷歌 is rolling out a Gemini-powered update to Gmail that makes smart replies even smarter, on both Android and iOS.
Meta rethinks smart glasses with Orion, but they won’t be publicly available any time soon, and definitely not this year.
AI Agents and Automation
From LLMs to SLMs to SAMs, how agents are redefining AI.
Employees see the benefits of AI and automation, but want their bosses to prioritise upskilling them, according to research from 美国麻省理工学院 .
OpenAI fast-tracks AI agents. How do we balance benefits with risks?
AI Regulation and Ethics
Federal Trade Commission announced a crackdown on deceptive AI claims and schemes.
An artist to sue the U.S. Copyright Office who denied his application for copyright as the work lacked “human authorship”.
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a series of initiatives to protect Californians from transformative GenAI technology, having vetoed the controversial SB 1047 legislation, which some argued would stifle AI innovation and investment in California.
Following California Governor Gavin Newsom’s veto of SB 1047, here is what’s illegal under California’s 18 (and counting) new AI laws.
In a closely watched decision, the Hamburg Regional Court has unexpectedly dismissed a lawsuit brought by a photographer who sued non-profit AI company LAION for using his images to train its AI image generators.?
Many AI companies won’t say if they’ll comply with California’s new AI data training transparency law. Stability AI , Runway and OpenAI said they will.
Meta confirms it may train its AI on any image you ask Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses to analyse.
And, almost as if in response… CloudFares announced AI Audit, a set of tools to help websites of any size analyse and control how their content is used by AI models and web scraping bots.
Scientists made an AI model that beats CAPTCHAs, every single time.
AI Adoption
The first nationally representative U.S. survey of generative AI adoption at work and at home?says that generative AI is being adopted much faster than previous waves of AI technology. Thirty nine percent of the U.S. population age 18-64 used generative AI. More than twenty four percent of workers used it at least once a week, and nearly one in nine used it every workday.
AI and Health
Transforming radiology with AI-powered diagnostics. Qure.ai , is developing AI-powered tools that enhance the speed and accuracy of diagnoses, reducing the burden on radiologists and improving patient outcomes.
How AI could transform the AIDS fight.
Researchers from Harvard Medical School have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool called TxGNN, which is designed to identify potential medications for more than 17,000 rare and neglected diseases.
'Any protein you can imagine, it can deliver': AI will help discover the next breakthrough in RNA, says Nobel Prize winner Dr. Drew Weissman.
And finally…
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