Sora Opens Physics BattleGround ??

Last week, the world went berserk with the launch of OpenAI’s text-to-video generation model Sora. While many were flooding social media with prompt requests for Sam Altman to create Sora videos, and wow-ing over the generated content, AI sceptics were out to dissect the model.?

Apart from questioning the accuracy of the videos, AI experts from rival companies were questioning the whole physics part of the model and debating over the use of generative AI for video synthesis.?

Meta chief, Yann LeCunn has remarked at how people, who have contributed nothing to AI and ML, are schooling him on his take on the latest model. “Some of them, very far gone on the Dunning-Kruger scale, tell me all the ways I'm wrong, stupid, blind, ignorant, misguided, jealous, biased, out of touch, about AI and ML,” he said.

Not just LeCunn, but Perplexity’s Aravind Srinivas, AI scientist Gary Marcus, and even Tesla CEO Elon Musk have dismissed Sora’s generative model. So, how exactly has Sora ignited the physics debate? Read here to find out.?

Accessibility for Visually Impaired?

Visually-impaired duo Karthik Sawhney and Shakul Sonker, turned to AI to overcome the systematic barriers the community faces. In 2018, they co-founded Inclusive Stem (I-Stem), an advocacy group to provide support and mentorship to their peers studying Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). But, it was during the COVID pandemic that the duo decided to tap into their background and leverage AI at scale.?

Read the full exclusive interview with the co-founder duo, right here.?

Indic AI Model to Talk to In-laws

Akshit Arora, a senior data scientist supporting one of NVIDIA’s major clients, speaks Punjabi, while his wife and her family are Tamil speakers – a divide he has long sought to bridge. Rafael Valle, originally from Brazil, faced a similar challenge as his wife and family speak Gujarati.?

In an exclusive interaction with AIM, these NVIDIA researchers talk about their multilingual text-to-speech models that could convert their voice into different languages in real time, which led them to winning LIMMITS ’24 challenge along with two other researchers.?

Read the full story here.?

$100 Bn Bet on AI Chips

SoftBank’s CEO Masayoshi Son has announced a plan to gather a whopping $100 billion for his AI project. This move is a direct challenge to the world’s third-largest company NVIDIA, known for its computer graphic chips.?

According to Bloomberg, SoftBank wants to put $30 billion of its own money into this project and is seeking another $70 billion from investors in the Middle East.

To read more, click here.?

MKBHD Owns ai.com

In the past year, the ownership of the domain name ai.com has changed hands three times, with its latest buyer being Marques Keith Brownlee, also known as MKBHD. After Sam Altman and Elon Musk, leading tech influencer MKBHD who has over 20 million subscribers and 3.93 billion views on YouTube, is the new owner.

To know more about the story of ai.com, click here.?