Major AI news this week! As the AI race continues to quickly advance, huge announcements were made from the major players, including Google, OpenAI, Meta, Github and more. Check out the recap below:
Top AI News
Google - Gemini 1.5 Pro outranks all chatbot competitors
OpenAI - Rolls Out Advanced Voice Mode for paid ChatGPT users
GitHub - Launched GitHub Models, enabling more than 100 million developers to become AI engineers
Microsoft - Names OpenAI as a competitor in AI and Search
Midjourney - Releases v6.1, is it better than v6? Faster, more coherent images & quality
Google - Reveals Gemma 2 2B, welcoming a new 2 billion parameter model to the Gemma 2 family
NVIDIA - Uses Apple Vision Pro to train humanoid robot, advances humanoid robotics with Project GR00T, utilizing Apple Vision Pro for remote control
Meta - Introduces Meta Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), for segmenting objects across images and videos
Apple - Apple Intelligence AI features set to launch in October, enables proof-read writing, creating custom emojis, and summarizing & transcribing phone calls
Canva - Acquired Leonardo AI, a generative AI platform, to boost it’s innovation efforts
Perplexity AI - Announces rev-share partnerships, will share a percentage with publishers when their content is cited in AI-generated answers
Runway - Released Gen-3 image-to-video, provides ability to turn still images into AI videos
Vimeo - Launches AI video translation, Vimeo's AI can translate your video's audio and captions into 29 different languages
Synthesia - Unveils Personal Avatars, create videos with it created to your likeness
Taco Bell - To bring Voice AI to hundred of US drive-thrus
Friend - A wearable-AI device that’s said to help combat loneliness
Figure - Unveils “most advanced” humanoid robot, which will be released on August 6th
Meta - New US-only feature enables pro Instagram creators to make an AI as an extension of themselves to answer their DMs & story replies
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