Adobe announced the Firefly Video Model, a generative AI model that creates videos from text prompts. It's meant to be commercially safe.
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Around 30% of generative AI projects will be abandoned by businesses by the end of 2025, Gartner has predicted, as they struggle to find a business use case for them, or find them too expensive.
The introduction of features like Generative Shape Fill, Text to Pattern, Style Reference, and Generate Image demonstrates Adobe's commitment to Generative AI features in Creative Cloud apps.
The Chinese phone maker Oppo has announced that it's going to bring new AI features to its line-up of devices, from the affordable right through to the premium, to democratise access to AI.
Anthropic has announced Claude Tool Use. It's aimed at developers leveraging Claude for third-party services and with tools, they can make Claude much more powerful, read on to find out more.
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.
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.
Meta has announced today that it will be launching new Generative AI tools for advertisers, including image and text generation. It is also expanding the Meta Verified platform to more countries.
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.
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.
New strings of code in the latest version of Google Maps suggest that the generative AI feature could soon be heading toward Labs, meaning the feature will no longer be exclusive to just Local Guides.
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.
Microsoft and Nvidia have expanded their collaboration to improve their generative AI offerings for enterprises including healthcare and life science organizations. The announcement was made at GTC.
The analyst company Canalys is predicting that AI-capable PCs will make up 40% of PC shipments in 2025. It said these PCs will also be about 10-15% more expensive than other computers.
Anthropic has released Claude 3 Haiku via its API, on claude.ai, on Amazon Bedrock, and soon on Google Cloud Vertex AI. Haiku is the fastest Claude 3 model, outperforms Gemini 1.0 Pro, and costs less.
Inflection AI has released a new LLM, Inflection-2.5. This new model brings big coding and mathematics improvements to an AI that started out focusing on being empathetic, which it still is.
Microsoft's GitHub has released GitHub Copilot Chat for JetBrains IDEs such as IntelliJ IDEA. It's available for everyone to use now following a private beta but requires a subscription.
Cohere and Accenture have formed a partnership to help businesses deploy generative AI tools. Cohere said that businesses are done experimenting and want to scale up the technology.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has told shareholders that it will release generative AI services later in the year. One of its shareholders, though, was concerned about the ethical implications.
Salesforce has announced the public beta of Einstein Copilot. It can currently be used in Salesforce's Sales Cloud and Service Cloud in English for customers in the United States.
Perplexity has teamed up with SK Telecom to give the latter's customers free access to the $20 per month Pro service. SK Telecom will also use Perplexity's online LLMs to develop its own products.
Canalys has forecasted that global cloud spending will increase by 20% this year to around $348 billion. The growth is largely going to be driven by investments into generative AI.
Google Chrome 122 has a new writing feature called Help me write that can be enabled if you're in the US. It takes page context into account and helps you fill in online forms like reviews.
Google has opened up Gemini 1.5 Pro for testing. To gain access, users need to fill in a form on Google AI Studio and sit on a waitlist until granted access. It performs much better than Gemini 1.0.
Google has introduced a new image-generation model called the ImageFX, powered by Imagen 2, which helps generate high-quality images using prompts. It also shared improvements to other AI tools.
The analyst firm IDC has outlined how it believes generative AI will be used to take over 30% of work in the marketing sector. It could be used to replace reptitive or boring work like SEO.
Microsoft has announced several new intiatives to help train the global workforce in using generative AI. It said the technology has potential but people need to know how to use it effectively.
Generative AI could have a disproportionate impact on female workers according to the International Labour Organization, a United Nations body. It warned clerical workers could be hit hard.
Ming-Chi Kuo predicts Apple is avoiding the AI hype train and will not add generative AI features to its hardware for consumers next year. Apple's progress in AI is behind its competitors, he said.
Mark Zuckerberg told employees at an internal meeting that the company has several gen AI projects on the go. The AI will be worked into internal tools at the company as well as consumer products.
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