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Goku models from ByteDance can generate realistic product videos without human actors
The Chinese tech company's latest AI models can generate realistic videos of people interacting with products, potentially transforming how companies create advertising content. ByteDance built its ...
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Europe's €200 billion AI bet signals a new era - but it's still playing catch-up
At a recent AI summit in Paris, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced "InvestAI," a €200 billion initiative aimed at establishing Europe as a global AI leader. The centerpiece of this ...
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Zonos can clone your voice and is open source
Zyphra has released Zonos-v0.1, an open source model that turns text into natural-sounding speech and can clone voices using just seconds of audio data. The new model supports five languages - English ...
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How Elon Musk plans to sabotage OpenAI's transformation into a for-profit company
A group of investors led by Elon Musk has launched an unexpected attempt to take over OpenAI's non-profit organization, potentially disrupting CEO Sam Altman's plans for the company's future. The Wall ...
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OpenAI CEO says merging LLM scaling and reasoning may bring "new scientific knowledge"
Training larger and larger language models (LLMs) with more and more data hits a wall. According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, combining "much bigger" pre-trained models with reasoning capabilities could ...
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Microsoft offers authors $5,000 to train AI on their books
Microsoft is taking a new approach to using copyrighted books for AI training by offering payment to HarperCollins authors. The deal sheds light on how the industry values creative work in the AI era.
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Anthropic's new AI security system falls to hackers within days
Jan Leike, a former OpenAI alignment team member now working at Anthropic, announced on X that one participant successfully broke through all eight levels of the challenge. The collective effort ...
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Mistral AI's Le Chat update brings up to 1,000 words per second responses and new mobile apps
Mistral AI has rolled out a major update to its AI assistant Le Chat, adding new features and mobile apps while revamping its pricing structure. One of the most notable additions is "Flash Answers," ...
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How AI can support — not undermine — justice
From facial recognition to deepfake evidence, AI is making its mark on criminal justice. As concerns about privacy, bias, and human rights grow, our guest author emphasizes the urgent need for legal ...
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ByteDance's AI can animate both real people and cartoon characters from a single image
Researchers at TikTok parent company ByteDance have presented OmniHuman-1, a new framework for generating videos from image and audio samples. The new system from TikTok's parent company turns still ...
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AlphaGeometry2: Deepmind AI outperforms math Olympians at geometry tasks
The latest version of Deepmind's AlphaGeometry system can solve geometry problems better than most human experts, matching the performance of top math competition winners. AlphaGeometry2 solves 84% of ...
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Hugging Face releases small language model that beats Qwen and Llama most of the time
The model's effectiveness comes from carefully combining different sources for its 11 trillion token dataset and using a methodical training approach. The team started with a balanced mix of web ...