Author: The Horizon

Amazon joins AI image creation fray with new model

Amazon has introduced Titan Image Generator, an AI model that can create realistic images from text prompts and change out backgrounds. Unlike consumer-oriented image generators, Titan is aimed at an enterprise audience. All images generated by Titan will include invisible watermarks as part of Amazon’s voluntary commitments. These watermarks can be used to identify if […]

Microsoft Paint’s OpenAI-powered “Cocreator” image generator is here

Microsoft has officially launched its Cocreator image-generating AI feature within the Paint app for Windows 11. The feature, powered by OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 model, allows users to enter a description and get three generated images to choose from. Previously available only to Windows Insiders, the Cocreator button in Microsoft Paint has now been widely released.

Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board

OpenAI has announced that Sam Altman will return as CEO, with Mira returning as CTO. The initial board will consist of Bret Taylor as Chair, along with Larry Summers and Adam D’Angelo. Altman expressed gratitude for everyone’s hard work and believes in the company’s resilience and probability of success. He also thanked Ilya, Adam, Tasha, […]

Tola Capital, investing in AI-enabled enterprise software, closes largest fund at $230M

Tola Capital, an investment firm focusing on AI-enabled enterprise software, has secured $230 million for its third fund, the largest amount raised so far. Despite a challenging fundraising environment, the interest in AI has made it a good time to raise funds. Tola Capital was founded in 2010 by Sheila Gulati, who previously led enterprise […]

Visual Anagrams: Generating Multi-View Optical Illusions with Diffusion Models

Source: University of Michigan We address the problem of synthesizing multi-view optical illusions: images that change appearance upon a transformation, such as a flip or rotation. We propose a simple, zero-shot method for obtaining these illusions from off-the-shelf text-to-image diffusion models. During the reverse diffusion process, we estimate the noise from different views of a […]

Google DeepMind AI reveals potential for thousands of new materials

Google DeepMind has utilized artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the structure of over 2 million new materials, potentially improving real-world technologies such as batteries, solar panels, and computer chips. The AI firm stated that nearly 400,000 of these hypothetical material designs could soon be produced in laboratory conditions. The research, published in the science journal […]

Stability AI in Turmoil, CEO Under Pressure as Possible Sale Looms

UK-based AI image developer Stability AI is reportedly exploring a sale after facing criticism and executive departures over its use of copyrighted content. American technology investment company Coatue Management sent a letter to Stability AI questioning CEO Emad Mostaque’s leadership and requesting details on executive pay. Two potential buyers that have emerged are AI marketing […]

Amazon announces new AI chip as it deepens Nvidia relationship

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced new chips for building and running artificial intelligence (AI) applications, along with plans to offer access to Nvidia’s latest chips. The move is aimed at making AWS stand out as a cost-effective cloud provider by offering top-of-the-line products from Nvidia and other vendors. The new Nvidia H200 GPU will […]

NVIDIA Powers Training for Some of the Largest Amazon Titan Foundation Models

NVIDIA NeMo, a framework for large language models (LLMs), helps companies overcome challenges in generative AI. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been using NeMo to create foundation models for their generative AI service, Amazon Bedrock. NeMo’s parallelism techniques and compatibility with AWS’s Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) allowed AWS scientists to efficiently train LLMs at scale, […]

Animate Anyone: Consistent and Controllable Image-to-Video Synthesis for Character Animation

  Source: Alibaba Character Animation aims to generating character videos from still images through driving signals. Currently, diffusion models have become the mainstream in visual generation research, owing to their robust generative capabilities. However, challenges persist in the realm of image-to-video, especially in character animation, where temporally maintaining consistency with detailed information from character remains […]

Scale collaborates with NVIDIA to power the next generation of LLMs with NeMo SteerLM

Scale AI and NVIDIA have joined forces to revolutionize generative AI with their collaboration on LLMs (Large Language Models). By utilizing Scale’s top-notch training datasets and NVIDIA’s NeMo SteerLM, which allows dynamic steering of models during inference, developers can create applications for a wide range of enterprise use cases, from education to chat bots to […]

Amazon announces Q, an AI chatbot for businesses

Amazon has announced a new chatbot called Q for workplace use. This move is aimed at competing with Microsoft and Google in productivity software. Q, named after the character in James Bond or Star Trek, depending on who you ask at AWS, is currently available in a preview version with free features. Once the preview […]

Learning few-shot imitation as cultural transmission

Cultural transmission is the domain-general social skill that allows agents to acquire and use information from each other in real-time with high fidelity and recall. It can be thought of as the process that perpetuates fit variants in cultural evolution. In humans, cultural evolution has led to the accumulation and refinement of skills, tools and […]

$10mn AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize Launches

XTX Markets is launching a new $10mn challenge fund, the Artificial Intelligence Mathematical Olympiad Prize (AI-MO Prize). The fund intends to spur the development of AI models that can reason mathematically, leading to the creation of a publicly-shared AI model capable of winning a gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).   The grand prize of $5mn will […]