Category: AI

1. The small AP team at FibroGen is overwhelmed with vendor invoices despite recent SAP implementation. 2. FibroGen receives around 1,000 invoices per month, leading to manual processing taking up 25% of total working hours. 3. VP of IT at FibroGen, Parag Govil, explores Google Cloud Document AI to automate invoice processing and enlists the…

1. Haiper is a new artificial intelligence startup specializing in generative video models, aiming for Sora-like realism in the future. 2. The company is focused on quality, offering short two-second clips with intuitive motion capabilities, but struggles with animating larger objects. 3. Haiper’s AI model is better at anticipating motion with shorter prompts, making it…

1. The U.K. recently joined the EU’s Chips Joint Undertaking to access €1.3 billion for semiconductor research and development, with the government also committing £35 million in funding over the next few years. 2. The semiconductor industry is crucial for advancements in technology, and the U.K.’s partnership with the EU aims to strengthen its position…

– eBay’s marketplace has over 1.9 billion listings from millions of sellers, and uses ML, AI-driven search capabilities, and NLP to enhance user experience. – By implementing Google Cloud Vertex AI and Vector Search, eBay accelerated engineering velocity and launched new features to reduce friction for both buyers and sellers. – eBay collaborated with Google…

1. Google’s open source AI model Gemma is now available on Groq chatbot, joining Mixtral and Llama 2. 2. Gemma is smaller than other models but can be installed on laptops and runs fastest on Groq’s LPU chips. 3. Groq is a chatbot platform designed for speed, with chips optimized for running AI models quickly.…

– Spanner is Google Cloud’s fully managed, highly available distributed database service with 99.999% availability SLA. – Spanner recently announced support for searching vector embeddings with exact nearest neighbor (KNN) search in preview, enabling businesses to build generative AI at virtually unlimited scale. – Spanner’s architecture supports large-scale vector search deployments, offering operational benefits such…

– Pika Labs added sound effects feature for AI videos – Other tools like MyEdit, AudioCraft and ElevenLabs offer similar functionality – Next big development in AI video is image-to-sound technology, allowing for automatic sound creation based on the picture. Pika Labs has introduced a new feature that allows users to create sound effects from…

– Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known as “DANIELS,” premiered their film “Everything Everywhere All At Once” at SXSW in 2022, which later won 7 Oscars. – The duo expressed both amazement and terror at the rise of AI, cautioning against blindly embracing the technology and urging careful consideration of its use. – They emphasized…

1. Prompt engineering: Extract domain-specific knowledge quickly from a generic LLM without modifying its architecture or retraining. 2. RAG (retrieval augmented generation): Merge information retrieval and LLMs to access external knowledge sources for more accurate and explainable responses. 3. Fine-tuning: Specialize a pre-trained LLM on a domain-specific dataset to improve its understanding and provide more…

1. ElevenLabs is a leading generative AI sound platform that can create synthetic voices and cloned voices from small samples. 2. The platform is expanding into sound effects, allowing creators to generate a variety of noises from simple prompts for presentations, movies, and podcasts. 3. While the tool can create complex, multilayered sound effects, it…