Author: The Horizon

Stability AI reveals SDXL Turbo: A Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation Model

Stability AI released SDXL Turbo, a new text-to-image mode that utilizes a distillation technique called Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (ADD). This technique allows the model to generate real-time text-to-image outputs in a single step while maintaining high sampling fidelity. SDXL Turbo builds upon the foundation of SDXL 1.0 and incorporates advancements in diffusion model technologies. Although […]

Inflection releases its new model inflection 2 – outperforms Google’s PaLM-2

Inflection-2, the superstar of AI training, flexed its metaphorical muscles on 5,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs. That’s a lot of computing power, enough to put it in the same training class as Google’s flagship PaLM 2 Large model. But wait, there’s more! Inflection-2 doesn’t just keep up, it outperforms PaLM 2 on the majority of standard […]

Pika, which is building AI tools to generate and edit videos, raises $55M

Pika, a startup specializing in generative AI video editing and generation tools, has raised $55 million in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Pika has also launched Pika 1.0, a suite of videography tools that includes a generative AI model capable of editing videos in different styles. The company aims to simplify and […]

When deepfakes go nuclear

The movie “WarGames” highlights the potential risks of incorporating AI into the nuclear weapons sphere, particularly regarding the use of fake data to deceive enemies. Deepfakes, which are AI-generated images or videos that can look astonishingly real, could be used to create deceptive data in the military and intelligence fields. The reliance on AI for […]

Salesforce and AWS Expand Partnership for Customers to More Easily Build Trusted AI Apps

Salesforce and AWS have deepened their partnership, expanding product integrations across data and AI, and making select Salesforce products available on the AWS Marketplace. This allows joint customers to seamlessly manage their data across both platforms and infuse the latest generative AI technologies into their applications and workflows. The joint innovations aim to enhance data […]

An AI Tool Just Revealed Almost 200 New Systems for CRISPR Gene Editing

CRISPR is a gene editing system that scientists are continually searching to improve. A team at MIT and Harvard used AI to narrow down billions of genetic sequences to find potential new CRISPR-based systems. They discovered thousands of new biological parts, some of which could provide better precision and fewer side effects in gene editing. […]

Cradle’s AI-powered protein programming platform levels up with $24M in new funding

Biotech and AI startup Cradle has raised $24 million in new investment and secured major customers such as Johnson & Johnson and Novozymes. Cradle takes a generative approach to protein design, using AI models to understand the molecular structure of proteins. By doing so, they can significantly reduce the time and number of experiments needed […]

GPT-4’s potential in shaping the future of radiology

Researchers are exploring the potential of GPT-4, an artificial intelligence model, in the field of radiology. The paper, titled “Exploring the Boundaries of GPT-4 in Radiology,” highlights GPT-4’s abilities and limitations in processing radiology reports. The research involved evaluating GPT-4’s performance in tasks such as disease classification and findings summarization. GPT-4 demonstrated new state-of-the-art performance […]

Inside U.S. Efforts to Untangle an A.I. Giant’s Ties to China

The United Arab Emirates’ national security adviser, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, visited the White House and raised concerns about G42, an AI firm controlled by the sheikh that American officials believe is hiding the extent of its work with China. G42 has publicly announced partnerships and impressive growth, but classified intelligence reports indicate concerning ties […]

Wikipedia Founder Says ChatGPT-4 Is Terrible At Writing Wikipedia Articles

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has criticized OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT for its shortcomings in writing articles on Wikipedia. Wales called ChatGPT-4 “terrible” and described it as a “mess.” He believes it currently misses important details, provides inaccurate information, and even fabricates sources. Despite these criticisms, Wales suggests that AI tools will continue to […]

U.S., U.K., and Global Partners Release Secure AI System Development Guidelines

In the exciting world of artificial intelligence (AI), it seems that security is the buzzword of the day. The U.K., the U.S., and a bunch of other countries have come together to release new guidelines for developing secure AI systems. Now, I know what you’re thinking, “Why do we need guidelines for something that’s not […]

MeshGPT: Generating Triangle Meshes with Decoder-Only Transformers

We introduce MeshGPT, a new approach for generating triangle meshes that reflects the compactness typical of artist-created meshes, in contrast to dense triangle meshes extracted by iso-surfacing methods from neural fields. Inspired by recent advances in powerful large language models, we adopt a sequence-based approach to autoregressively generate triangle meshes as sequences of triangles. We […]

US, Britain, other countries ink agreement to make AI ‘secure by design’

In a groundbreaking international agreement, the United States, Britain, and a coalition of 16 other countries have come together to address the pressing issue of keeping artificial intelligence (AI) safe from rogue actors. In a 20-page document, the countries highlighted the need for AI systems that prioritize security from the design phase. While the agreement […]

California governor calls for statewide generative AI training

California Governor Gavin Newsom has emphasized the importance of staying ahead of the curve in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) by acquiring new skills and becoming familiar with the emerging technology. In a recent report, Newsom called for California residents to have access to educational and training opportunities in GenAI, stating that it is essential to […]