OpenAI has announced ChatGPT Edu, an affordable plan for learning centres such as universities. Before now, several prestigious universities had been using the ChatGPT Enterprise plan.
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Mistral AI has launched Codestral, its very first large language model for coding tasks. It is fluent in 80+ programming languages and outdoes much of the competition using less compute.
Former OpenAI safety lead Jan Leike has taken up a job at rival firm Anthropic. There, he will continue his work on superalignment and try to find a way for humans to control powerful AIs.
Reports emerged about Slack using customers' messages and files to train machine learning models, supported by some unfortunate wording in the company's blog. However, Slack denies these allegations.
Google has announced the AI Opportunity Fund: Asia-Pacific to help people in the region fill their skill gaps regarding artificial intelligence. The fund has $15 million to help people learn about AI.
The man who ordered a malicious robocall campaign with a fake voice of Joe Biden was charged with 26 felony counts. The Attorney General hopes this will be a strong deterrent for anyone else.
Elon Musk has told xAI investors that the company is planning to build a compute gigafactory powered by a very powerful cluster of Nvidia H100 GPUs. It will be able to train new Grok iterations.
A future update to Instagram might let you create personalized chat themes using AI. It's also reported that the social media giant is working on the ability to give users early access to features.
WhatsApp is working on a new feature that allows users to generate custom profile pictures using AI in the instant messaging app. The feature was discovered in WhatsApp Android beta v2.24.11.17.
YouTube has announced its latest AI experiments feature called Dream Track. Creators can use it to generate AI-powered instrumental soundtracks and use them in their YouTube Shorts.
Major technology companies came together to promote responsible developments of AI and address security concerns. Representatives established frameworks and principles for evaluating models.
OpenAI could soon expand on its free version of ChatGPT that you can use without an account. Already available on the web, the feature was spotted on the beta version of the ChatGPT app for Android.
The UK government's AI Safety Institute will launch a San Francisco-based office in the summer. It wants to expand its expertise in AI by having easy access to the creators in San Francisco.
The UK government is formulating proposals to help rights holders learn if their content has been used to train AI models. It aims to have these proposals ready before the election in autumn.
The superalignment team at OpenAI has been disbanded less than a year after it was created to ensure super intelligent AI doesn't get out of human control. It comes after senior figures left the firm.
The Council of Europe has adopted the first-ever international legally binding treaty on the use of AI. It aims to ensure respect for human rights, the rule of law, and democratic legal standards.
OpenAI can now use Reddit's content for its AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT and future products. The two companies have partnered, and Reddit will also launch AI-powered features for its users.
France's AI ambitions are getting a boost with Microsoft's €4 billion investment in new data centers, AI training, and support for startups. This commitment aims to position France as a leader in AI.
Tiktok said it will start labeling AI-generated content (AIGC) coming from other platforms. It has added support for Content Credentials, which is now rolling out on images and videos on the platform.
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Generative AI is already affecting the way computer coding is taught at universities. Several educators have said that they now teach more high-level skills predominantly like debugging and testing.
Microsoft is planning to build its first data center region in the Southeast Asian country of Thailand. The company has also pledged to 'AI skill' over 100,000 people to create a skilled workforce.
Apple is reportedly working on new features for Safari. The browser is expected to get an AI-powered Intelligent Search feature to summarize text, a Web Eraser, and UI enhancements with Safari 18.
Amazon Q Developer and Amazon Q Business are now generally available. They're generative-AI solutions which aim to help developers with coding and businesses work with company data more efficiently.
OpenAI and FT have entered into a strategic partnership that'll see FT content included where relevant in ChatGPT answers. This could help ChatGPT get up to date information which it doesn't yet have.
Nvidia has announced its decision to acquire Run:ai, a company which offers a GPU orchestration platform for managing AI workloads across cloud, edge, and on-premises data centre infrastructure.
Apple has reportedly acquired France-based AI startup Datakalab, specializing in AI and computer vision technology. It is expected to help Apple bolster the AI features it is readying for iOS 18.
TikTok seems to be working on a voice cloning feature for its app, according to a new report. Some code strings and the initial user interface were discovered in the latest version of TikTok.
A new AI model by Microsoft Research Asia, VASA-1, can create incredibly realistic deepfakes based only on a single photograph and one voice sample. The model easily beats anything available today.
Meta's Oversight Board investigates whether Facebook and Instagram uphold consistent standards of content moderation across the world when users share explicit AI images of female public figures.
Reports suggest that Apple's first set of AI features, arriving with the soon-to-launch iOS 18 at WWDC 2024 on June 10, will run natively on your iPhone and won't require cloud servers.
xAI launched Grok-1.5V, a new multimodal AI that can understand text, images, diagrams, and more. xAI claims Grok-1.5V outperforms competitors on key benchmarks such as RealWorldQA.
Leo is now integrated into Brave Talk for Premium subscribers. The AI can now take call transcripts and make notes helping you to catch up with and summarise meetings, make task lists, and more.
Microsoft is introducing a unified Copilot experience in Visual Studio 17.10 that will combine the features of Copilot and Copilot Chat into one package. This version of Visual Studio is out in May.
Google has launched Gemini for Android Studio, a code assistant AI powered by Gemini 1.0 Pro. The company said the feature is free to use but it's language suggests it'll become paid in the future.
A new survey shows that 41% of senior executives at global companies believe there will be a reduction in workforce sizes as they adopt generative AI, contradicting the narrative of AI as a helper.
Google is looking at charging for some new "premium" features powered by artificial intelligence, such as an AI-powered search engine which would keep the existing search free of charge.
Google DeepMind and Stanford University found a way how to mitigate the hallucinations and accuracy problems of artificial intelligence-based chatbots. The system that fact-checks AI is using… AI.
OpenAI's new powerful model can create a realistic clone of your voice based on just 15 seconds of your speech. However, the company hesitates to release the tool amid concerns about its misuse.
Amazon has increased its funding for Anthropic to $4 billion. As part of this invesment, Amazon has a minority stake in Anthropic and Anthropic is using Amazon's cloud infrastructure.