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- Google is reportedly developing a ‘computer-using agent’ AI systemby Wes Davis on October 26, 2024 at 10:32 pm
Image: The VergeGoogle could preview its own take on Rabbit’s large action model concept as soon as December, reports The Information. “Project Jarvis,” as it’s reportedly codenamed, would carry tasks out for users, including “gathering research, purchasing a product, or booking […]
- Siri’s big ChatGPT upgrade is here — for better and worseby Allison Johnson on October 25, 2024 at 3:45 pm
We finally got a look at one of Siri’s big Apple Intelligence updates. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The VergeApple Intelligence’s official launch is less than a week away, but it’s the next wave of AI updates that will start to make Siri a lot more useful. The forthcoming iOS 18.2 […]
- Meta signs its first big AI deal for newsby Mia Sato on October 25, 2024 at 2:46 pm
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The VergeMeta’s AI chatbot will soon begin citing Reuters reporting while answering news-related queries. The two companies have struck what Axios describes as a “multi-year deal” that will allow Meta to use Reuters content for its chatbot responses. […]
- The confusing state of Apple Intelligenceby David Pierce on October 25, 2024 at 12:47 pm
Image: Alex Parkin / The VergeThe first bits of Apple Intelligence are starting to show up on people’s phones. The features in iOS 18.1 are fairly basic: summarizing messages, writing emails, that kind of thing. Apple is already letting developers play with iOS 18.2, though, which looks […]
- Adobe execs say artists need to embrace AI or get left behindby Jess Weatherbed on October 25, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty ImagesAdobe is going all in on generative AI models and tools, even if that means turning away creators who dislike the technology. Artists who refuse to embrace AI in their work are “not going to be successful in this new world without using […]
- OpenAI plans to release its next big AI model by Decemberby Kylie Robison on October 25, 2024 at 1:29 am
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty ImagesOpenAI plans to launch Orion, its next frontier model, by December, The Verge has learned. Unlike the release of OpenAI’s last two models, GPT-4o and o1, Orion won’t initially be released widely through ChatGPT. Instead, OpenAI is planning […]
- Perplexity blasts media as ‘adversarial’ in response to copyright lawsuitby Jay Peters on October 25, 2024 at 12:10 am
The VergeAI startup Perplexity, which offers an AI search engine, published a blog post today pushing back on News Corp’s lawsuit against the company. Perplexity has recently come under significant scrutiny following accusations that it scraped content without permission, and News Corp, […]
- Apple Intelligence bug bounty invites researchers to test its privacy claimsby Jay Peters on October 24, 2024 at 10:20 pm
Image: Cath Virginia / The VergeApple is inviting investigations into the Private Cloud Compute (PCC) system that powers more computationally intensive Apple Intelligence requests. The company is also expanding its bug bounty program to offer payouts of up to $1,000,000 for people who […]
- Notion is making a super customizable email appby Emma Roth on October 24, 2024 at 9:43 pm
Image: NotionAfter taking on calendar apps earlier this year, Notion is ready to tackle emails with a fully customizable app launching next year. Much like Notion’s other tools, the company says Mail will “distill email down to its building blocks,” allowing you to create an inbox […]
- Departing OpenAI leader says no company is ready for AGIby Kylie Robison on October 24, 2024 at 7:31 pm
Image: The VergeMiles Brundage, OpenAI’s senior adviser for the readiness of AGI (aka human-level artificial intelligence), delivered a stark warning as he announced his departure on Wednesday: no one is prepared for artificial general intelligence, including OpenAI itself. “Neither […]
- Breaking Barriers in Cellular Automata with CAX: Faster, Scalable, and Open for Allby Synced on October 25, 2024 at 5:57 pm
In a new paper CAX: Cellular Automata Accelerated in JAX, a research team introduces Cellular Automata Accelerated in JAX, a powerful open-source library designed to enhance CA research, which enables rapid CA simulations through extensive parallelization on various hardware accelerators, including […]
- LLMs as Code Architects: Meta’s New Approach to Precise Code Transformationsby Synced on October 23, 2024 at 2:45 pm
In a new paper Don't Transform the Code, Code the Transforms: Towards Precise Code Rewriting using LLMs, a Meta research team proposes a novel chain-of-thought strategy to efficiently generate code transformations using LLMs. Their approach enables LLMs to derive transformations based on a small […]
- Thinking Fast and Slow: Google DeepMind’s Dual-Agent Architecture for Smarter AIby Synced on October 21, 2024 at 8:59 pm
A Google DeepMind research team proposes a biologically-inspired dual-system framework for intelligent agents. This "Talker-Reasoner" architecture aligns with Kahneman's concept, where System 1 is fast and intuitive, while System 2 is slower and deliberative. The post Thinking Fast and Slow: Google […]
- From Dense to Dynamic: NVIDIA’s Innovations in Upcycling LLMs to Sparse MoEby Synced on October 17, 2024 at 2:50 am
In a new paper Upcycling Large Language Models into Mixture of Experts, an NVIDIA research team introduces a new "virtual group" initialization technique to facilitate the transition of dense models into fine-grained MoE structures. The post From Dense to Dynamic: NVIDIA’s Innovations in […]
- Web Data to Real-World Action: Enabling Robots to Master Unseen Tasksby Synced on October 13, 2024 at 3:55 am
A research team presents a novel language-conditioned robot manipulation framework called Gen2Act, which achieves generalization to unseen tasks using publicly available web data, eliminating the need to collect specific robot data for every task. The post Web Data to Real-World Action: Enabling […]
- Scaling Multi-Objective Optimization: Meta & FAIR’s CGPO Advances General-purpose LLMsby Synced on October 9, 2024 at 11:13 pm
In a new paper The Perfect Blend: Redefining RLHF with Mixture of Judges, a research team from Meta GenAI and FAIR developed Constrained Generative Policy Optimization (CGPO), which offers a more structured approach to RLHF, advancing the performance of general-purpose LLMs. The post Scaling […]
- Instant 3D Vision: Apple’s Depth Pro Delivers High-Precision Depth Maps in 0.3 Secondsby Synced on October 8, 2024 at 12:53 am
Apple introduces Depth Pro, a state-of-the-art foundation model designed for zero-shot metric monocular depth estimation. This model can generate high-resolution depth maps with exceptional clarity and fine detail, producing a 2.25-megapixel depth map in just 0.3 seconds on a standard GPU. The post […]
- Law of the Weakest Link: Advancing Large Language Models Through Cross-Capabilityby Synced on October 3, 2024 at 9:06 pm
A joint research team from Meta and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign introduces CrossEval, a benchmark designed to assess both individual and cross capabilities. Their findings demonstrate that LLMs often adhere to the “Law of the Weakest Link”—where performance on complex tasks is […]
- Google’s Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Voice Transfer for Dysarthric Speakersby Synced on September 30, 2024 at 11:18 pm
In a new paper Zero-shot Cross-lingual Voice Transfer for TTS, a Google research team presents a new VT module that seamlessly integrates into a multilingual TTS system, enabling voice transfer across languages. The post Google’s Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Voice Transfer for Dysarthric Speakers […]
- Practical Lossless Text Compression: FineZip Delivers 54x Speed Boost via Large Language Modelsby Synced on September 28, 2024 at 5:51 pm
In a new paper FineZip : Pushing the Limits of Large Language Models for Practical Lossless Text Compression, a research team from UC Berkeley and NYU introduces FineZip, a novel LLM-based compression system designed to significantly reduce compression time. The post Practical Lossless Text […]
- AI scams have infiltrated the knitting and crochet world - why it matters for everyoneon October 25, 2024 at 8:46 pm
Using AI, scammers are creating frustrating - and expensive - problems for makers. Here's how to spot AI-generated patterns - and why anyone who relies on downloaded instructions should pay attention.
- Prudential will tap Google's MedLM gen AI models to verify medical claimson October 25, 2024 at 7:00 pm
The insurance company will deploy gen AI to analyze and verify information submitted for medical claims.
- Apple will pay you up to $1 million if you can hack into Apple Intelligence serverson October 25, 2024 at 6:58 pm
The company's bug bounty is designed to test the security of the servers that process Apple Intelligence requests.
- Google Photos will soon label images edited with AI - here's what it'll look likeon October 25, 2024 at 6:37 pm
The company says its AI transparency work is not done and it's still looking for ways to disclose more information about AI edits.
- The best robot vacuums for 2024: Expert tested and reviewedon October 25, 2024 at 2:42 pm
We've tested the best robot vacuums from brands like Roomba, Dreame, Narwal, Roborock, and more in a lab setting. These are our favorite models.
- Google survey says more than 75% of developers rely on AI. But there's a catchon October 25, 2024 at 8:07 am
The research suggests that AI-based tools or agents boost productivity and code quality, but may reduce delivery stability.
- Midjourney's new web editor lets you tweak images uploaded from your PCon October 24, 2024 at 7:34 pm
The feature lets you crop, repaint, and otherwise modify images uploaded from your computer. But there are a few limitations.
- How ChatGPT scanned 170k lines of code in seconds, saving me hours of workon October 24, 2024 at 6:28 pm
Have a question that requires a lot of text or numerical analysis? Consider running it by ChatGPT or another popular model - the answer might surprise you.
- 5 tips for choosing the right AI model for your businesson October 24, 2024 at 3:04 pm
What size language model meets your needs? How can you best use your data? These business leaders give us their opinions.
- Technologist Bruce Schneier on security, society and why we need 'public AI' modelson October 24, 2024 at 9:05 am
The renowned security expert says fully transparent models can help us turn AI into a tool that produces benefits for everyone.
- ZDNET's pick for the best robot vacuum and mop is $500 off (its lowest price ever)on October 23, 2024 at 5:35 pm
The Dreame X40 Ultra is a high-end robot vacuum priced for the stars, but is it worth its hefty price tag? At $500 off, the answer is a definite yes.
- Otter.ai can transcribe in more languages now - with more on the wayon October 23, 2024 at 4:43 pm
Your AI-assisted meeting or interview transcriptions no longer have to be limited to English.
- Anthropic's latest AI model can use a computer just like you - mistakes and allon October 22, 2024 at 8:52 pm
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available as a beta for developers to try out now. It can view a screen, move a cursor, click buttons, and even input text. It's not perfect, but neither are you!
- This Qualcomm-Google partnership may give us the in-car voice assistants we've been waiting foron October 22, 2024 at 8:05 pm
By standardizing a framework that leverages AI, expect automakers to get a little more creative with their digital cockpit experiences.
- IBM doubles down on open source AI with new Granite 3.0 modelson October 22, 2024 at 7:24 pm
Big Blue's Granite LLMs are built for business and now they're available under the good old Apache 2.0 license.
- Generative AI doesn't have to be a power hog after allon October 22, 2024 at 2:46 pm
New research indicates that businesses are no longer prioritizing computing power over efficiency when it comes to AI. Here's why that matters.
- Asana launches a no-code tool for designing AI agents - aka your new 'teammates'on October 22, 2024 at 1:56 pm
Another AI agent builder joins the workforce. Here's how Asana's AI Studio works.
- 4 ways Android cameras are about to get better, thanks to Qualcomm - even for dogson October 22, 2024 at 1:23 pm
Photobombers and videobombers, goodbye. Tell your dogs we said hi, though.
- Canva introduces new Dream Lab featuring Leonardo.ai image generationon October 22, 2024 at 1:00 pm
One of the best AI image generators is now available in Canva.
- The secret to successful digital initiatives is pretty simple, according to Gartneron October 22, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Only 48% of digital initiatives meet or exceed their business outcome targets, but the successful ones seem to have one big thing in common.