Elon Musk's xAI unveils Grok 3, challenging Google's search dominance. Musk's playful jab, 'Don't Google it, just Grok it,' highlights the shift towards AI-powered search. Grok aims for real-time information, less censorship, and X integration, but faces hurdles in data, resources, and user adoption. The future of search is evolving.
LLMWare partners with Qualcomm to launch Model HQ, a software package for AI PCs powered by Snapdragon X Series processors. It offers a streamlined solution for deploying and managing Gen-AI models and applications on-device. Features include a no-code/low-code environment, enhanced security, and support for models like Microsoft Phi and Mistral, boosting enterprise productivity.
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OpenAI's GPT-4.5, a precursor to GPT-5, emphasizes emotional intelligence and collaboration. It's currently in limited preview, featuring enhanced training with human feedback and synthetic data, reducing 'hallucinations'. The model aims for more intuitive and warmer conversations, paving the way for GPT-5's dynamic model selection capabilities.
Mistral AI's Pixtral-12B, a powerful vision language model, is now available on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace. It excels in multimodal tasks, offering impressive performance in image and document understanding, reasoning, and instruction following. Deploy and leverage Pixtral-12B for various vision-related applications with ease, benefiting from its commercially permissive Apache 2.0 license.
Apple's Siri is undergoing a significant overhaul to incorporate generative AI, but the complete transformation is a multi-year project. Mark Gurman suggests a fully conversational Siri might not arrive until 2027, with incremental updates and a hybrid 'LLM Siri' system expected in the meantime. The challenge lies in integrating new AI with legacy systems.
Researchers have introduced Tradutor, an open-source AI translator designed for European Portuguese. It addresses the underrepresentation of this language variety in machine translation. Using a new parallel corpus, PTradutor, and fine-tuning techniques on LLMs like Gemma and LLaMA-3, Tradutor achieves performance comparable to commercial models, promoting linguistic inclusivity in AI.
Zhipu AI, a leading Chinese AI startup, secures over 1 billion yuan (around $137 million) in a new funding round, fueled by state-backed investors. The investment will enhance its GLM large language model, expand regionally, and develop open-source AI models, including multimodal and AI agent capabilities, intensifying competition in China's AI sector.
Zhipu AI, a leading Chinese AI startup, has raised over $137 million in new funding from state-backed investors. The investment will fuel the development of its GLM large language model, ecosystem expansion in the Yangtze River Delta region, and the release of new open-source AI models, solidifying China's push for AI leadership.
MWC 2024 showcased Android's AI advancements, focusing on Gemini Live and Circle to Search. Gemini Live offers multilingual assistance and interactive learning, while Circle to Search simplifies translation and information retrieval. Partner devices highlighted the seamless integration of AI into hardware, promising a future where AI is integral to the Android experience.
