AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Meta Launches Android of AR/VR Devices
Meta opens its VR operating system to other hardware makers, aiming to expand the ecosystem like Android did with mobile.
K L Krithika ·
Microsoft Introduces Phi-3, LLM That Runs on the Phone
Despite its compact size, Phi-3-Mini boasts performance levels that rival larger models such as Mixtral 8x7B and GPT-3.5.
Mohit Pandey ·
Sakana AI Releases Japanese DALLE-3, Calls it EvoSDXL-JP
The model delivers 10x faster image generation for Japanese styles.
Siddharth Jindal ·
AI Likely to Outsmart Us Before We Decode the Brain, says Geoffrey Hinton
Hinton had previously said that AI was already very close to being as good as a human brain.
Donna Eva ·
Alibaba Launches LLM-R2 to Optimise SQL Query Efficiency
“It consistently outperforms baseline methods by reducing the execution time to 52.5%, 56.0%, and 39.8% on average across TPC-H, IMDB, and DSB datasets respectively, compared to the original queries”
Sukriti Gupta ·
Mega Networks to Establish AI Server Factory in Maharashtra
The company intends to invest Rs 350-400 crore in FY25, with initial funding from internal accruals and debt of Rs 100-120 crore.
shyam.upadhyay ·
ByteDance Uses GPT-4V to Create a Multimodal LLM, Groma, for Enhanced Image Region Understanding
“Groma demonstrates superior performances in standard referring and grounding benchmarks, highlighting the advantages of embedding localization into image tokenization”
Sukriti Gupta ·
PhysDreamer Study Reveals Breakthrough in Video Generation for Dynamic 3D Object Interactions
PhysDreamer is setting a new standard in virtual reality by enabling dynamic, physics-based interactions for 3D objects in video generation
K L Krithika ·
Wipro Shifts Focus to Lead Generative AI Consulting
Wipro has trained more than 225,000 employees in AI 101.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Meta Llama 3 Now Available on Databricks For Enterprise
Llama 3 models are now also rolling out on Amazon SageMaker, Google Cloud, Hugging Face, Kaggle, IBM WatsonX, Microsoft Azure, NVIDIA NIM, and Snowflake.
Gopika Raj ·
OpenAI Hires Pragya Misra As Its First Employee in India
OpenAI is also looking to set up a local team in India.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Happiest Minds Technologies Acquires Macmillan Learning India, Expands Edutech Reach
Macmillan Learning India, established in September 2015, is an information technology entity focusing on software development services specifically for the Macmillan Group, a global leader in learning and education.
shritama.saha ·
Meta Releases Llama 3, Beats Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemini Pro 1.5
The model is available in 8B and 70B parameter versions and has been trained on over 15 trillion tokens, making it seven times larger than Llama 2's dataset.
Mohit Pandey ·
Nothing Becomes the First Smartphone Company to Integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT
Earbuds with ChatGPT might be a better fit than the Humane Ai pin.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Meta Llama 3 Now Available on Microsoft Azure
Meta is offering the Llama-3-8B inference APIs alongside hosted fine-tuning capabilities through Azure AI Studio.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Infosys Acquires German R&D Services Provider, in-tech
Based in Germany, in-tech specialises in digitisation in automotive, rail transport, and smart industry sectors.
Mohit Pandey ·
Ola Krutrim to Launch AI Cloud Next Week
Offers Free Credits
Siddharth Jindal ·
Hugging Face Unveils Idefics2, an 8B Vision-Language Model
The new Idefics2 model outperforms larger rivals in the visual tasks.
Gopika Raj ·
Cisco Unveils Hypershield to Secure AI-Powered Data Centers
Cisco is collaborating with NVIDIA to build AI-native solutions leveraging Morpheus cybersecurity AI framework and NIM microservices.
shyam.upadhyay ·
Microsoft Unveils VASA-1, Creating DeepFake Videos with a Single Image
Microsoft's revelation of VASA-1 sparks a frenzy just as the election fever reaches its peak.
Gopika Raj ·