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Matthias Bastian

Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER, exploring how AI is fundamentally changing the relationship between humans and computers.
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Nov 11, 2023
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Read full article about: Google considers pouring hundreds of millions into AI chatbot startup Character.AI

Google is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in AI chatbot startup Character.AI, according to Reuters sources. The investment could be structured as convertible notes and would deepen the existing partnership between the two companies, as Character.AI uses Google's cloud services and tensor processing units to train models. Discussions with Google are ongoing. Founded by former Google employees, Character.AI allows users to chat with virtual versions of celebrities or create their own chatbots and AI assistants. The startup is also in talks to raise equity funding from venture capital investors, potentially valuing the company at more than $5 billion.

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Read full article about: Mozilla introduces Fakespot Chat, an AI chatbot to help you decipher real reviews from fake ones

Mozilla has launched Fakespot Chat, its first large language model (LLM) AI chatbot, to help users identify fake and misleading product reviews while shopping online. Fakespot, which Mozilla acquired earlier this year, uses AI and machine learning to sort through product reviews and provide users with trustworthy information. The chatbot is available through Fakespot Analyzer or as a browser extension on Amazon.com. Keep in mind that the chatbot can be wrong, so if something seems fishy, you might want to double-check. Interestingly, Amazon itself is doing something similar in that it uses AI to take the gist of all the summaries for a master summary.

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Nov 10, 2023
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Read full article about: RunwayML text-to-video AI service introduces new motion feature

Text-to-video startup RunwayML has just announced "Motion Brush," which lets you select specific areas of an image and set them in motion. The feature is coming soon to Runway's Gen-2 model, which just received a significant upgrade in fidelity and consistency. The update also allows the Gen-2 to handle a higher resolution of 2,816 x 1,536 pixels when creating video from an existing image, exceeding today's widespread Full-HD resolution.

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Nov 9, 2023
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Read full article about: DDoS attack hits ChatGPT and OpenAI's API

OpenAI is experiencing "abnormal traffic" that suggests hackers are trying to overwhelm its services, potentially causing outages like the one that hit ChatGPT this week. The startup has detected signs of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack and is working to mitigate the problem, it writes on its status page.

Update - We are dealing with periodic outages due to an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack. We are continuing work to mitigate this.
Nov 08, 2023 - 19:49 PST

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also said that the use of the new features introduced during the Dev Days is "far exceeding" OpenAI's expectations, so the company is staggering the rollout and anticipating more instability in the short term.

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Read full article about: Google's Search Generative Experience expands to 120 new countries and four new languages

Generative AI in Search expands to over 120 new countries and territories and adds support for four new languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, and Indonesian. Search Generative Experience (SGE) provides AI-powered summaries that summarize relevant information for users' searches. The expansion follows positive feedback from launches in India and Japan. The upgrades to SGE, rolling out first in the U.S., include easier follow-up questions, AI-powered translation assistance, and more definitions for topics such as coding. The new features are available through Search Labs on the Google app and Chrome desktop, and will be rolled out gradually over the coming weeks.

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