Cutting-Edge AI and Tech Innovations

Runway Gen-3 Alpha Release

Runway has introduced Gen-3 Alpha, a significant upgrade to its AI video generator. This new version enhances realism, control, and generation speed, producing highly realistic videos. Gen-3 Alpha supports various tools such as text-to-video, image-to-video, and text-to-image, while offering fine-grained temporal control and the ability to generate imaginative transitions and precise key-framing within scenes. The model can create complex scenes with cinematic movements and photorealistic characters, making it ideal for film and media content creation. It will soon be available to Runway subscribers, including enterprise customers and creators

OpenAI and Data Licensing

Discussions are ongoing about OpenAI licensing data for training their large language models. Some news organizations believe OpenAI should seek permission or offer compensation for using their content, while others argue that content available on the open web constitutes fair use. In response, Cloudflare has introduced new options to prevent scraping content from websites.

M42's New Med42 Versions

M42, the tech-driven healthcare group of Abu Dhabi-based AI holding and investment group G42, has released new open-access versions of Med42, its clinically-aligned large language model (LLM). Nine months after the debut of the Med42 LLM, M42 has released Med42 v2 8B and Med42 v2 70B via the data science platform and open-source AI community Hugging Face. Built on Meta's LLaMA-3, the new models are instruction and preference fine-tuned to expand access to medical knowledge and recognize the human preferences of clinicians and other medical stakeholders.

MBZUAI Welcomes Largest-Ever Cohort to AI Research Internship

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi has welcomed its largest-ever cohort for the Undergraduate Research Internship Programme (UGRIP). This year, 45 international STEM students were selected through a rigorous process to participate in an internship. Decoding Data Science has a similar type of AI Residency Program.

Sunno App Release

Sunno is a new app that allows users to create music using AI. It is important to be cautious when downloading such apps due to the prevalence of fake applications in the market. Sunno aims to stand out with its legitimate and innovative approach to AI-generated music.

Meta's Text-to-3D Images

Meta AI has unveiled a new research project called 3D Gen, capable of generating 3D images from text prompts. This technology is particularly useful for game development and creating assets for 3D videos, pushing the boundaries of what AI can achieve in digital content creation.

Kotai's Voice Model

Kotai, an open-source AI research lab, has released a new voice model comparable to GPT-4o. Although still under development, the model is available for public use, allowing researchers and developers to experiment and contribute to its refinement.

Intern LM 2.5 Release

Intern LM 2.5 is a new open-source large language model featuring a 1 million token context window. This extensive context allows the model to consider a broader scope of text when responding to prompts, enhancing its performance and accuracy.

Brave Browser Update

Brave Browser now allows users to integrate their own custom AI models. Additionally, the browser has introduced its built-in AI assistant, Leo AI, enhancing user experience with advanced AI capabilities directly within the browser environment.

Complexity Update

Complexity has introduced a Pro search feature with multi-step reasoning, enabling the search engine to handle complex questions requiring multiple steps to answer. This update also improves the model's performance in math and programming problems by integrating Wolfram Alpha.

11 Labs New Features

11 Labs has released new iconic voices for their text-to-speech app, including Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds, and Sir Laurence Olivier. They ensured that they obtained permission from the estates of these celebrities. Additionally, 11 Labs introduced a voice isolator feature to clean up background noise from audio, enhancing the quality of their text-to-speech outputs.

Figma and AI Training Data

Figma announced plans to use user-generated content to train their design AI models, with an opt-out option for users. However, they faced criticism for developing a weather app that resembled Apple's weather app, leading to a pause in this feature's development.

New Features on YouTube and Instagram

YouTube now allows users to request takedowns of videos containing AI-generated content deemed harmful or misleading. Instagram is testing a feature that enables users to create and share AI-generated images, enhancing creative possibilities on the platform.

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