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OpenAI unveils its text to video generation mode, Sora: ChatGPT maker OpenAI took the internet by storm this week with the launch of its text to video generation tool dubbed Sora. While there are many text to video generation tools in the market, Sora can “create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions". Announcing the new tool via a blogpost, OpenAI wrote, “Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model. Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly…

While a new version of Android is always exciting, it’s also sad. As this generally means that a phone or two will be getting support dropped. And this time around, it’s the Google Pixel 5a. The Google Pixel 5a is guaranteed to get updates until August 2024 – that’s Android and security updates. This could be when Android 15 launches, but Google also mentions in their blog post today that the developer preview is available for the Pixel 6 and later. That means the Pixel 5a is definitely not going to see Android 15 –…

Google has launched a number of new search experiences today to in “preparations for the Digital Markets Act (DMA)” the search company said. This includes new rich results, aggregator units, and refinement chips, plus new flight search results. “With these new experiences, users in EEA countries searching for queries such as “hotels near me” may notice more visual and entity focused results. These experiences aim to (1) present users with rich and relevant information for their searches and (2) improve the visibility…

Google has broadened the availability of its Gemini app, an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot, beyond the United States to more than 150…

Alphabet’s Gemini AI model has been public for only two months, but the company is already releasing an upgrade. Gemini Pro 1.5, launching with limited availability today, is more powerful than its predecessor and can handle huge amounts of text, video, or audio input at a time.Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, which developed the new model, compares its vast capacity for input to a person’s working memory, something he explored years ago as a neuroscientist. “The great thing about these core capabilities is that…

Last updated: February 15th, 2024 at 14:58 UTC+01:00 Google has enjoyed complete dominance over the internet search market for decades. There have been competitors but none has been able to achieve the sheer scale of its superiority. With artificial intelligence set to fundamentally change the way people use the internet, it appears that Google may soon find its lead under threat. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is reportedly working on a new internet search engine. You can already look up stuff using ChatGPT,…

On Thursday, Google unveiled Gemini 1.5 Pro, which the company describes as delivering “dramatically enhanced performance” over the previous model. The company’s AI trajectory — viewed internally as increasingly critical for its future — follows the unveiling of Gemini 1.0 Ultra last week, alongside the rebranding of the Bard chatbot (to Gemini) to align with the new model’s more powerful and versatile capabilities.In an announcement blog post, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis try to balance…

Just last week, Google unveiled its new AI chatbot lineup, featuring Gemini Advanced—its best bot, based on its most powerful large language model, Gemini 1.0 Ultra. But Gemini 1.0 Ultra’s reign as the company’s flagship LLM could turn out to be brief.Today the company is announcing Gemini 1.5 Pro, an update to its middle-tier LLM. It says the improvements result in an LLM in the same zip code, power-wise, as Gemini 1.0 Ultra. And in a briefing for reporters on Wednesday, Google DeepMind principal scientist Oriol Vinyals…

“In one way it operates much like our brain does, where not the whole brain activates all the time,” says Oriol Vinyals, a deep learning team lead at DeepMind. This compartmentalizing saves the AI computing power and can generate responses faster. “That kind of fluidity going back and forth across different modalities, and using that to search and understand, is very impressive,” says Oren Etzioni, former technical director of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, who was not involved in the work. “This is…

To achieve this enhanced performance, Gemini 1.5 has been built on a new version of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, which allows the model to learn and selectively activate the most relevant pathways in its neural network, increasing efficiency, according to the press release. Also: Microsoft and OpenAI detect and disrupt nation-state cyber threats that use AI, report showsGoogle claims that Gemini 1.5 Pro can run up to one million tokens in production, a massive increase from the original 32,00 tokens for…