Amazon Lex Now Provides Conversational FAQ Handling Using Generative AI
By leveraging rapid advances in generative AI, Amazon Lex now offers simpler bot building along with more capable, human-like conversational experiences.
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AWS Customers Can Deliver Hyper-Personalized Customer Experiences With New Generative AI Tools
The ability to squeeze generative AI into the recommendation process promises more custom-fit, engaging experiences that feel like they were created just for you.
AWS Unveils Major Update to Amazon Transcribe with AI-Powered Speech Recognition for Over 100 Languages
Transcribe now promises 20-50% increases in accuracy for most languages and even bigger jumps of 30-70% for challenging telephony speech.
Putin Reveals Russia's AI Ambitions to Counter Western Dominance
The Russian president expressed concerns about the Western monopoly over AI, particularly in terms of cultural representation.
NVIDIA Launches MONAI to Streamline Medical Imaging AI Development
MONAI is comprehensive suite of enterprise-grade containers, AI models, and cloud APIs based on the open-source Project MONAI.
Meta Disbands Responsible AI Team
The restructuring will see most team members shifted to Meta’s burgeoning generative AI team, while others will join the AI infrastructure unit.
Bard Can Now Watch and Explain YouTube Videos
This video analysis skill has wide-ranging potential applications beyond just engaging with YouTube content. We could soon see Bard assisting with educational videos, podcast summarization, and more.®
Inflection Unveils Inflection-2, Claims New AI Model Outperforms Rivals
Inflection says its new language model achieves state-of-the-art performance on a range of NLP benchmarks, outscoring models from Google, Meta, and others.
UAE Unveils Jais Climate, a Locally Developed AI Model to Empower Climate Action
Built on top of MBZUAI's Vicuna13B model and Core42's top-performing Arabic LLM Jais13B, Jais Climate underwent extensive fine-tuning to excel in climate-related conversations.
Jubilation and Relief: Reactions as Sam Altman Returns to OpenAI Helm
The collective sigh of relief and renewed focus within OpenAI is palpable. The resolution, which came after a significant employee revolt and investor pressure, marks a pivotal moment for the company.
Sam Altman Reinstated as OpenAI CEO
The resolution, reached late Tuesday, involves significant changes to OpenAI's governance. Altman and former president Greg Brockman will not return to their board positions.
Google Open-Sources Project Guideline to Enable Visually Impaired Navigation
The company is taking a major step towards improving mobility for the visually impaired by open-sourcing Project Guideline, its computer vision navigation system.
Stability AI Releases Stable Video Diffusion
Stability is open-sourcing Stable Video Diffusion and an image-to-video model, for research purposes.
Anthropic Unveils Claude 2.1 with 200K Context Capability and Reduced Hallucination
The updated model can ingest documents up to 150,000 words, enabling robust summarization, Q&A, analysis and more for lengthy, complex inputs.
AI21 Secures Additional $53M to Close $208M Series C
In August, the startup announced that it had successfully raised $155 million in Series-C funding.
Amazon Unveils 'AI Ready', A Plan to Train 2 Million People in AI Skills by 2025
The goal is to remove cost as a barrier to accessing critical AI skills and to help those with a desire to learn about AI and benefit from the tremendous opportunity ahead.
Microsoft Releases New Orca 2 Small Language Model with Enhanced Reasoning Capabilities
Comprehensive benchmarks show Orca 2 significantly outperforming other models of equivalent size on metrics related to language understanding, common sense reasoning, multi-step math problems, reading comprehension, summarization, and more.
OpenAI Customers Exploring Alternatives Amid Company Crisis
Over 100 current OpenAI customers reached out to Anthropic over the weekend alone, according to a source familiar with the situation.
Runway Unveils Impressive New Tools for Greater Creative Control in Generative AI Video
With Motion Brush, Style Presets, enhanced camera tools, and improved image fidelity, artists gain more nuance to craft their generative art.
OpenAI Employees Revolt, Demanding Board Resignation and Altman Reinstatement
The letter condemned the board's recent decisions as jeopardizing OpenAI's mission and success. It urged the resignation of all current directors.
Microsoft Hires Ousted OpenAI Leaders Altman and Brockman for New AI Team
Brockman shared on X that the initial leadership team will include senior researchers Jakub Pachocki, Aleksander Madry and Szymon Sidor, who quit OpenAI on Friday in solidarity.
Altman Out: OpenAI Co-Founder Won't Return, Emmett Shear Becomes Interim CEO
OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman will not resume his role as CEO, and Emmett Shear, Twitch co-founder, has been named the new interim CEO, replacing Mira Murati.
OpenAI Negotiations Stall Over Legal Liability Concerns Amid Push to Reinstate Altman as CEO
Board members are so far resisting issuing a statement absolving Altman of wrongdoing due to potential legal liability concerns.
Inside OpenAI: Altman and Brockman Back at HQ as Execs Seek Return
Altman was seen entering the offices wearing a guest badge, while Brockman also arrived later in the day, according to a person familiar with the situation.
OpenAI Desperately Trying to Bring Back Sam Altman
Sources say if Altman were to return, the directors who fired him - including co-founder Ilya Sutskever - would likely depart or the board would be overhauled entirely.