Author: The Horizon

As Google Pivots to AI, CEO Warns He Will Fire Even More Staff

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced more layoffs as the company continues its pivot towards AI. The layoffs affect various departments, including advertising, customer sales, Google Assistant, Fitbit, and hardware verticals. The company aims to simplify execution and drive velocity by removing layers. This move follows Google’s tumultuous 2023 and swift pivot to AI in response […]

The Rabbit R1 will receive live info from Perplexity’s AI ‘answer engine’

CES 2024 is buzzing with excitement over the latest announcement from Rabbit, a $199 AI gadget designed by Teenage Engineering. The partnership with Perplexity promises to revolutionize the device by providing live, up-to-date answers without any knowledge cutoff. The collaboration aims to offer a seamless user experience, with the first 100,000 purchases of the Rabbit […]

OpenAI partners with Arizona State University to use ChatGPT in classrooms

Arizona State University (ASU) has partnered with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT into its classrooms, focusing on enhancing student success, innovative research, and streamlining organizational processes. ASU faculty members with expertise in AI will guide the usage of generative AI on campus. The partnership marks OpenAI’s first collaboration with an educational institution and signifies a growing […]

DeepMind reveals AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry

Trieu Trinh and Thang Luong introduce AlphaGeometry, an AI system that has achieved a significant breakthrough in solving complex geometry problems. The system’s performance approaches that of a human Olympiad gold-medalist, indicating a major advancement in AI reasoning and mathematical problem-solving.   AlphaGeometry utilizes a neuro-symbolic system, combining a neural language model with a symbolic […]

Zuckerberg’s AGI remarks follow trend of downplaying AI dangers

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., announced that the company is working on building “general intelligence” for AI assistants and “open sourcing it responsibly,” while bringing together its two major research groups, FAIR and GenAI, to make it happen.   The announcement has sparked discussions about the potential invention of truly general AI and […]

BMW’s South Carolina plant is testing humanoid robot workers

Robotics startup Figure has entered into a commercial agreement with BMW to introduce its general-purpose humanoid robots to BMW’s manufacturing facility in Spartanburg, South Carolina, with the intention of automating difficult, unsafe, or tedious manufacturing tasks.   Figure’s CEO, Brett Adcock, believes that general-purpose robotics have untapped potential and can help companies increase productivity, reduce […]

AI graphic design tool Recraft gets $12M to launch a foundation model

London-based startup Recraft has raised $12 million in a series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, with plans to develop AI-powered graphic design tools for brand-centric designers.   Recraft differentiates itself by targeting the niche professional segment of brand-centric graphic designing and offers a web platform where users […]

Databricks and Credo AI unite for responsible, compliant AI at scale

Credo AI, known for its AI governance platform, has partnered with Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to enable Databricks customers to track and manage AI risk and compliance at scale, providing transparency about their AI systems throughout the development lifecycle.   The integration will leverage Databricks’ MLFlow to automatically translate model metrics and metadata into required […]

Former OpenAI Exec Predicts AI Could Be Last Thing Humans Ever Invent

In a recent interview with Business Insider, former OpenAI executive Zack Kass enthusiastically promotes the idea that artificial intelligence (AI) will bring about a bright and joyous future for humanity. He left OpenAI to champion the AI revolution, advocating for a positive narrative about AI’s potential to improve lives. Kass believes that AI will lead […]

Runway Gen-2 adds multiple motion controls to AI videos with Multi Motion Brush

AI video creation is rapidly advancing, and New York City-based startup Runway has updated its Gen-2 foundation model with a new tool called Multi Motion Brush, which allows creators to add multiple directions and types of motion to their AI video creations.   The introduction of Multi Motion Brush strengthens the set of tools Runway […]

Pecan AI debuts Predictive Generative AI to democratize AI predictions for business

Pecan AI, an eight-year-old startup, has raised $116 million in funding and recently launched a new tool, Predictive GenAI, which combines generative AI capabilities with predictive machine learning. The tool aims to simplify the process of building predictive AI models, making it more user-friendly for data scientists and individuals closer to the business side of […]

A new AI-based risk prediction system could help catch deadly pancreatic cancer cases earlier

A groundbreaking project led by MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has developed a cutting-edge AI system, PRISM, that predicts an individual’s likelihood of developing pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), the most common form of pancreatic cancer.   The system, utilizing artificial neural networks and an algorithmic […]

Sharing deepfake porn could lead to lengthy prison time under proposed law

The US is taking a bold stance against the dubious realm of deepfake pornography, stirred by a scandal in a New Jersey high school where young perpetrators used AI to create and distribute non-consensual fake nude images of their classmates. It seems the legislative cavalry is charging forth, with Rep. Joseph Morelle unfurling the “Preventing […]

AI Startup Cohere Reportedly Looking To Raise $500M To $1B

In the world of AI startups, the potential for a significant funding round is on the horizon for Toronto-based Cohere, as it enters discussions for a raise between $500 million and $1 billion. This news follows a previous report of Anthropic, another AI startup, considering a $750 million funding round. Cohere, which specializes in building […]

Japanese author used ChatGPT to write an award-winning novel

Rie Kudan, a 33-year-old Japanese author, made a provocative statement at the Akutagawa Prize ceremony, revealing that a portion of her award-winning novel _Tokyo-to Dojo-to_ was directly derived from ChatGPT, a generative AI. This move accentuates the burgeoning role of AI in shaping cultural creations.   What is particularly striking is that this isn’t an […]

OMG-Seg: Is One Model Good Enough For All Segmentation?

In this work, we address various segmentation tasks, each traditionally tackled by distinct or partially unified models. We propose OMG-Seg, One Model that is Good enough to efficiently and effectively handle all the segmentation tasks, including image semantic, instance, and panoptic segmentation, as well as their video counterparts, open vocabulary settings, prompt-driven, interactive segmentation like […]

Adobe’s new AI-powered Premiere Pro features eradicate boring audio editing tasks

Adobe is launching new AI-powered audio editing features in Premiere Pro, including interactive fade handles, AI-powered audio category tagging, Enhanced Speech beta feature, and quality-of-life improvements such as automatically resizing waveforms and updated clip colors. The updates aim to decrease the tedious tasks in audio editing, providing editors more time to focus on other projects. […]

Stability AI releases Stable Code 3B to fill in blanks of AI-powered code generation

Generative AI continues to advance, with Stability AI introducing its latest AI model, Stable Code 3B, tailored for code completion in software development. The 3-billion parameter model, optimized for local laptop usage, boasts advanced code completion capabilities and performance matching or exceeding larger models in the market. Stability AI provides Stable Code 3B through its […]