Hub AI in practice

Artificial Intelligence is present in everyday life – from “googling” to facial recognition to vacuum cleaner robots. AI tools are becoming more and more elaborate and support people and companies more effectively in their tasks, such as generating graphics, texting or coding, or interpreting large amounts of data.

What AI tools are there, how do they work, how do they help in our everyday world – and how do they change our lives? These are the questions we address in our Content Hub Artificial Intelligence in Practice.

AI in practice

Jan 22, 2025Jan 22, 2025

Anthropic CEO expects major AI breakthrough, plans to launch "virtual collaborators"

AI in practice

Mar 5, 2025Mar 5, 2025

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OpenAI's largest model GPT-4.5 is now available for ChatGPT Plus

AI in practice

Feb 24, 2025Feb 24, 2025

Anthropic launches Claude 3.7 Sonnet hybrid AI model and Claude Code programming tool

AI in practice

Jan 22, 2025Jan 22, 2025

Anthropic CEO expects major AI breakthrough, plans to launch "virtual collaborators"

AI in practice

Mar 5, 2025Mar 5, 2025

Update

OpenAI's largest model GPT-4.5 is now available for ChatGPT Plus

AI in practice

Mar 18, 2025Mar 18, 2025

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Elon Musk's AI company xAI has acquired video startup Hotshot, which has developed three video generation models over the past two years: Hotshot-XL, Hotshot Act One and Hotshot. The startup says it's "excited to continue scaling these efforts on the world's largest cluster, Colossus, as part of xAI." The company's own service has been shut down. Existing users will be able to download their videos through the end of March.

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AI in practice

Mar 17, 2025Mar 17, 2025

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Mistral AI has released an updated version of its Small 3 model, now available as Small 3.1 under the Apache 2.0 license. The latest iteration brings enhanced text processing abilities, multimodal understanding, and an expanded context window that can handle up to 128,000 tokens. According to Mistral AI, Small 3.1 delivers better performance than similar models like Google Gemma 3 and GPT-4o-mini, achieving inference speeds of 150 tokens per second. The model runs on consumer hardware like a single RTX 4090 graphics card or a Mac with 32 GB of RAM. You can download Mistral Small 3.1 via Huggingface as a base and instruct version, or use it through the Mistral AI API and on Google Cloud Vertex AI. The company plans to expand availability to NVIDIA NIM and Microsoft Azure AI Foundry platforms in the coming weeks.

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AI in practice

Mar 17, 2025Mar 17, 2025

Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis predicts first AGI systems within decade

AI in practice

Mar 16, 2025Mar 16, 2025

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Google has integrated native video understanding into its Gemini models, enabling users to analyze YouTube content through Google AI Studio. Simply enter a YouTube video link into your prompt. The system then transcribes the audio and analyzes the video frames at one-second intervals. You can, for example, reference specific timestamps and extract summaries, translations, or visual descriptions. Currently in preview, the feature permits processing up to 8 hours of video per day, with limitations of one public video per request. Gemini Pro processes videos up to two hours in length, while Gemini Flash handles videos up to one hour. The update follows the implementation of native image generation in Gemini.

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