Category: AI

– AI-coustics is a German startup using generative AI to enhance voice clarity in videos – The technology goes beyond noise suppression and can work across various devices and speakers – The company is funded with €1.9 million and aims to eliminate bias by recruiting diverse speech sample contributors AI-coustics, a German startup, has emerged…

– Elon Musk’s startup xAI has made its large language model Grok available as open source software under an Apache 2.0 license. – The release fulfills Musk’s promise to open source Grok in order to accelerate AI development and adoption. – The open source release of Grok includes its weights, network architecture, documentation, and code,…

– Home robots have struggled post-Roomba due to pricing, practicality, form factor, and mapping issues – Big companies have resources to address industrial-level robot problems, but consumers can’t easily program or fix robot mistakes – MIT research uses LLMs to help robots learn from mistakes and self-correct tasks, improving functionality in unstructured environments like homes.…

– NVIDIA has announced its next-generation Blackwell GPU architecture for accelerated computing and real-time generative AI – Blackwell promises up to 25 times lower cost and energy consumption compared to its predecessor – The platform features a powerful chip, second-generation Transformer Engine, NVLink interconnect, and support from major cloud providers and partners NVIDIA has introduced…

1. iOS 18 update by Apple expected to focus heavily on artificial intelligence with generative AI capabilities and increased storage space. 2. Apple may partner with Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic for AI features in iOS 18, with speculations of potential partnership for the iPhone 16 models. 3. iPhone 16 models rumored to come with RAM…

– AI tool Mia successfully detects signs of breast cancer in mammograms – Trained on a dataset of over 6,000 breast cancer cases, AI system accurately predicts cancer with 81.6% accuracy – Researchers developing AI further to predict risk of side effects after treatment, planning clinical trial to validate AI risk prediction model A successful…

– Google is using AI to provide natural language responses to search queries through its Search Generative Experience (SGE) – SGE was launched in May 2023 as an opt-in experiment, but Google is now testing it with a small subset of U.S. users without opting in – The search results with SGE will include an…

1. The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on AI for safe and ethical development worldwide. 2. The resolution calls for the development of trustworthy AI systems that respect human rights. 3. The resolution encourages governments to develop national policies and safeguards for ethical AI use. The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on AI…

1. Google’s Instrument Playground is an AI-powered experiment that allows users to describe an instrument and start playing with its sound instantly. 2. The tool uses MusicLM, an AI model trained on music instrument samples, to generate clips and map them to keys on a virtual keyboard. 3. Instrument Playground allows users to mix and…

– Stanhope AI raised £2.3m in seed funding led by the UCL Technology Fund – The company was founded by neuroscience and AI research experts, focusing on agentic AI technology – The technology is being tested with delivery drones and autonomous machines for real-world applications, with potential in manufacturing, industrial robotics, and embodied AI. Stanhope…