Author HubMaximilian Schreiner

Max is the managing editor of THE DECODER, bringing his background in philosophy to explore questions of consciousness and whether machines truly think or just pretend to.
AI and society

OpenAI restructures under new foundation, Microsoft takes 27 percent stake

AI research

OpenAI outperforms humans and Google at the world's top collegiate programming contest

AI in practice

New data from OpenAI and Anthropic show how people actually use ChatGPT and Claude

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Mike Krieger, co-founder and former CTO of Instagram, has joined Anthropic as Chief Product Officer. Krieger will lead the AI company's product development and expand the availability of the AI chatbot Claude. He has a lot of experience in building scalable products: At Instagram, he grew the development team to over 450 employees and scaled the platform to over one billion users. Most recently, Krieger developed the personalized news app Artifact for three years before it was acquired by Yahoo. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei sees Krieger's background in developing intuitive products and user experiences as a valuable contribution to the company, particularly in designing new ways of interacting with Claude in the workplace.

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AI voice startup ElevenLabs has given a first look at a new model that can generate songs from prompts. The company, founded by former Google and Palantir employees, specializes in machine learning to clone and synthesize voices. Now, ElevenLabs seems to be targeting the music industry with ElevenLabs Music. The published examples are roughly on par with the competition from Suno AI and Udio, and have a running time of around three minutes.

Video: Elevenlabs via X

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The research team at Temporal Games has developed a plugin for real-time streaming of volumetric video using Gaussian splatting in Unreal Engine 5. Animated Gaussian splatting makes it possible to represent real events or performances as three-dimensional projections of reality. The challenge lies in the large amount of data required to render the animation. The team was able to reduce the data size by a factor of 15. In a recently published video, the researchers also show how the integrated image can be dynamically lit in real time. The team plans to develop a client-server solution for 4DGS streaming and to make the technology available for games and web platforms.

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AI research

The ARC benchmark's fall marks another casualty of relentless AI optimization

AI in practice

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Frustrated authors withdraw papers after realizing their reviewers are just lazy LLMs

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