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ChatGPT now understands real-time video, seven months after OpenAI first demoed it

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OpenAI has finally released the real-time video capabilities for ChatGPT that it demoed nearly seven months ago. On Thursday during a livestream, the company said that Advanced Voice Mode, its human-like conversational feature for ChatGPT, is getting vision. Using the ChatGPT app, users subscribed to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro can point their phones at […]

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Twelve Labs is building AI that can analyze and search through videos

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AI models that understand videos as well as text can unlock powerful new applications. At least, that’s what Jae Lee, the co-founder of Twelve Labs, believes. Granted, Lee’s a little biased. Twelve Labs trains video-analyzing models for a range of use cases. But there may just be something to his assertion. Using Twelve Labs’ models,

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Cartesia claims its AI is efficient enough to run pretty much anywhere

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It’s becoming increasingly costly to develop and run AI. OpenAI’s AI operations costs could reach $7 billion this year, while Anthropic’s CEO recently suggested that models costing over $10 billion could arrive soon. So the hunt is on for ways to make AI cheaper. Some researchers are focusing on techniques to optimize existing model architectures — i.e.

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It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content — and legal experts say that could be a problem

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OpenAI has never revealed exactly which data it used to train Sora, its video-generating AI. But from the looks of it, at least some of the data might’ve come from Twitch streams and walkthroughs of games. Sora launched on Monday, and I’ve been playing around with it for a bit (to the extent the capacity

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Google Gemini can now do more in-depth research

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Google is upgrading Gemini, its chatbot platform, with the ability to “reason” through a research problem and compile a comprehensive report. The updated Gemini offers a feature called “Deep Research” that Google says uses “advanced reasoning” and “long context capabilities” to generate research briefs. The briefs are presented in the Gemini apps and can be

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Google’s AI Overviews will soon be able to answer math and coding questions

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AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries Google supplies for certain Google Search queries, will soon be able to handle “more complex topics” and “multimodal” and “multi-step” searches, the company says, including advanced math questions and coding problems. The expanded capabilities are driven by the newly launched Gemini 2.0 model, which Google says should also deliver improvements

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Gemini 2.0, Google’s newest flagship AI, can generate text, images, and speech

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Google’s next major AI model has arrived to combat a slew of new offerings from OpenAI. On Wednesday, Google announced Gemini 2.0 Flash, which the company says can natively generate images and audio in addition to text. 2.0 Flash can also use third-party apps and services, allowing it to tap into Google Search, execute code,

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Albert Invent hopes to revolutionize the chemicals sector with its AI platform

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If startup funding rounds are any metric, generative AI is seeing ample adoption in the sciences. It makes sense: there’s a lot of trial and error involved in research and development, and any tool that can speed up the process for researchers is bound to be useful. The latest is Albert Invent, which offers an

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