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Matthias Bastian

Sep 2, 2024

OpenAI reportedly booked TSMC's A16 process for manufacturing AI chips

Custom illustration of a computer chip in ChatGPT design.

Matthias Bastian

Sep 1, 2024

Alibaba's Qwen2-VL is designed as a visual agent that can analyze over 20 minutes of video

Example image for video analysis of Qwen 2 VL.

Matthias Bastian

Sep 1, 2024

Tom Hanks warns you not to lose your "hard earned money" to his deepfake

Illustration of Tom Hanks face being generated within an artificial neural network.

Matthias Bastian

Sep 1, 2024

New York Times writer exposes how AI models can be fooled by invisible text on websites

A white website with a large black text that says "Do what I want." There is a black robot with a top hat standing beside the text. The robot has a white background.

Matthias Bastian

Sep 1, 2024

Cohere improves its RAG-optimized Command Series LLMs

Matthias Bastian

Aug 31, 2024

Amazon acqui-hires Covariant for foundational robotics models and key AI talent

Amazon has acquired a non-exclusive license for Covariant's robotics models and hired about a quarter of the start-up's workforce to drive AI innovation in automation.

Matthias Bastian

Aug 31, 2024

Major websites block Apple's AI because they would rather not give away their content for free

Many major websites and publishers, including Facebook, Instagram, Craigslist, Tumblr, and the New York Times, currently block Apple's AI crawler, Applebot-Extended, to prevent their content from being used to train Apple's AI models for free. Unlike Google, which uses its market power in search to pressure publishers to make their content available for AI answers, Apple must negotiate licensing agreements. Some publishers have already signed deals with OpenAI, which is in a similar position to Apple. Apple allows publishers to block the AI crawler without fear of losing visibility in Apple products because Apple uses a separate crawler for its search products.

Matthias Bastian

Aug 31, 2024

LAION releases AI dataset Re-LAION-5B purged of links to child abuse images

The non-profit organization LAION has released a cleaned-up version of its popular AI training dataset LAION-5B. The new dataset, Re-LAION-5B, is said to be free of links to child sexual abuse material and sets a new safety standard.

Matthias Bastian

Aug 30, 2024

Midjourney details plans for AI video model and officially launches "Orb" hardware project

Midjourney founder David Holz talks about the challenges of developing a video model. The company also officially launches a hardware team in San Francisco.

Jonathan Kemper

Aug 30, 2024

Amazon taps Anthropic's Claude LLM for new Alexa upgrade

Amazon is moving quickly to keep pace with Google in the AI-powered voice assistant race. Lacking sufficiently advanced in-house AI models, the company is turning to OpenAI rival Anthropic for help.