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Top AI News Headlines for Tuesday February 27th
Google's Genie Can Create Videos From Text or Image Prompts
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Google's Genie Can Create Videos From Text or Image Prompts - Google DeepMind introduces "Genie", a program that will enable you to create your own fictional world, similar to the outlandish landscapes seen in high-octane games. The model can “generate an endless variety of playable (action-controllable) worlds from synthetic images, photographs, and even sketches.”
Google expects its more advanced large language models to arrive on Android phones next year - Currently, capable Android phones come equipped with Gemini Nano, a smaller version of Google’s Gemini AI model. Rakowski says he expects more advanced versions of Gemini, which are currently only accessible via the cloud, to start getting released on Android phones in 2025.
Expect AI-made prescription drugs to be ready for clinical trials in a couple of years, predicts Google DeepMind CEO - "I would say we're a couple of years away from having the first truly AI-designed drugs for a major disease, cardiovascular, cancer." "We've just signed big deals with Big Pharma and on real drug programs. And I expect in the next couple of years, we'll have AI-designed drugs in the clinic, in clinical testing,"
Former Twitter engineers are building Particle, an AI-powered news reader - Particle.news, which entered into private beta over the weekend, is a new startup offering a personalized, “multi-perspective” news reading experience that not only leverages AI to summarize the news, but also aims to do so in a way that fairly compensates authors and publishers.
New AI model could streamline operations in a robotic warehouse - By breaking an intractable problem into smaller chunks, a deep-learning technique identifies the optimal areas for thinning out traffic in a warehouse.
GitHub’s Copilot Enterprise is now generally available at $39 a month - Copilot Enterprise includes all of the features of the existing Business plan, including IP indemnity, but extends this with a number of crucial features for larger teams. The highlight here is the ability to reference an organization’s internal code and knowledge base.
Photoroom, the AI image editor, raised $43M at a $500M valuation - Photoroom plans to use the funding to hire more people and to continue investing in its R&D and infrastructure. Photoroom said that it’s currently processing some 5 billion images annually, with its app passing 150 million downloads.
Writer’s latest models can generate text from images, including charts and graphs - Writer is a San Francisco startup that is working to create generative AI writing products with the enterprise in mind. Today, the company announced a new capability for its Palmyra model that generates text from images, including graphs and charts, they call Palmyra-Vision.
Mobile OS maker Jolla is back and building an AI device - This device-in-the-making is akin to the personal server concept that’s been kicking around in privacy circles for years — but reconfigured for the generative AI age as a privacy-safe 'adaptive digital assistant'.
Glean wants to beat ChatGPT at its own game — in the enterprise - Glean was inspired by Jain’s observations that Rubrik employees often struggled to find the information they needed to do their jobs — and that staffers at other companies were struggling with the same. Glean is an AI-powered search app geared toward enterprise customers.
Inkitt, the self-publishing platform using AI to develop bestsellers, nabs $37M - The startup’s app lets people self-publish stories, and then, using AI and data science, it selects what it believes are the most compelling of these to tweak and subsequently distribute and sell on a second app.
Former Progressive CMO says new AI platform will disrupt marketing industry - Charney's latest project — an AI platform called MKHSTRY — is designed to spark "lightbulb moments" and drastically reduce the time and money required to brainstorm and launch national campaigns. It could disrupt the $350 billion marketing industry in the same way Uber disrupted transportation.
AI surge boosts the ambitions of a nuclear startup - X-energy, a startup developing small modular reactors (SMRs), sees an attractive market in slaking the energy thirst of the rapidly unfolding artificial intelligence boom.
Women in AI: Amba Kak creates policy recommendations to address AI concerns - Amba Kak is the executive director of the AI Now Institute, where she helps create policy recommendations to address AI concerns. She was also a senior AI advisor at the Federal Trade Commission and previously worked as a global policy advisor at Mozilla and a legal advisor to India’s telecom regulator on net-neutrality.
Interview Kickstart, a profitable startup, raises maiden funding to tackle tech talent crunch - Interview Kickstart, a profitable startup helping tech professionals acquire career-advancing skills, has raised $10 million in its maiden funding from Blume Ventures.
How AI Is Already Transforming the News Business - AI is already writing headlines, managing paywalls to increase subscriptions, performing transcriptions, turning stories in audio feeds, discovering emerging stories, fact checking, copy editing and more. AI in the newsroom will be only as bad or good as its developers and users make it.
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