Amazon has released an upgraded version of its in-house image-generating model, Titan Image Generator, for AWS customers using its Bedrock generative AI platform. Simply called Titan Image Generator v2, the new model brings with it several new capabilities, AWS principal developer advocate Channy Yun explains in a blog post. Users can “guide” the images they […]
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John Schulman, one of the co-founders of OpenAI, has left the company for rival AI startup Anthropic. The news comes as The Information reports that OpenAI’s president, Greg Brockman, has taken an extended leave of absence and Peter Deng, a product manager who joined OpenAI last year after leading products at Meta, Uber and Airtable,
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Grok, not to be confused with the homophonic AI startup Groq that this morning raised over $600 million, spread false information about Vice President Kamala Harris on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. That’s according to an open letter penned by five secretaries of state and addressed to Tesla, SpaceX and X CEO
Last year, OpenAI held a splashy press event in San Francisco during which the company announced a bevy of new products and tools, including the ill-fated App Store-like GPT Store. This year will be a quieter affair, however. On Monday, OpenAI said it’s changing the format of its DevDay conference from a tentpole event into
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A YouTube creator is seeking to bring a class action lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the company trained its generative AI models on millions of transcripts from YouTube videos without notifying or compensating the videos’ owners. In a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, attorneys for David
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Groq, a startup developing chips to run generative AI models faster than conventional processors, said on Monday that it’s raised $640 million in a new funding round led by Blackrock. Neuberger Berman, Type One Ventures, Cisco, KDDI and Samsung Catalyst Fund also participated. The tranche, which brings Groq’s total raised to over $1 billion and
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Despite increasing demand for AI safety and accountability, today’s tests and benchmarks may fall short, according to a new report. Generative AI models — models that can analyze and output text, images, music, videos and so on — are coming under increased scrutiny for their tendency to make mistakes and generally behave unpredictably. Now, organizations
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Following the recent lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) against music generation startups Udio and Suno, Suno admitted in a court filing on Thursday that it did, in fact, train its AI model using copyrighted songs. But it claimed that doing so was legal under the fair-use doctrine. The RIAA filed the lawsuit
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Google Cloud is giving Y Combinator startups access to a dedicated, subsidized cluster of Nvidia graphics processing units and Google tensor processing units to build AI models. It’s part of Google Cloud’s effort to cozy up with promising early-stage AI startups, in hopes some of them will evolve into massive, compute-hungry business. “We want to
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that OpenAI is working with the U.S. AI Safety Institute, a federal government body that aims to assess and address risks in AI platforms, on an agreement to provide early access to its next major generative AI model for safety testing. The announcement, which Altman made in a post on
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