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Open-source PDF2Audio tool turns documents into podcasts and audio summaries
Researchers led by Markus J. Buehler from MIT developed PDF2Audio as an alternative to Google's "Audio Overviews" podcast feature in NotebookLM. PDF2Audio is designed for flexibility and customization ...
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Google's new Gemini 1.5 AI models offer more power and speed at lower costs
The new versions, Gemini-1.5-Pro-002 and Gemini-1.5-Flash-002, offer significant improvements over their predecessors, according to Google, showing gains across a range of benchmarks, particularly in ...
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Researchers put OpenAI's o1 through its paces, exposing both breakthroughs and limitations
A new study independently examines the planning abilities of OpenAI's latest AI model, o1. While the results show major improvements over traditional language models, significant limitations remain.
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Anthropic in talks for funding round that could double its valuation to $30-40 billion
AI startup Anthropic is talking to investors about a potential funding round that could value the company at up to $40 billion. This comes as rival OpenAI is closing in on a massive new investment.
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Microsoft unveils AI hallucination 'correction' tool
Microsoft has announced a new feature for Azure AI Content Safety, which detects and corrects inconsistencies in AI-generated text. With this tool, the company aims to increase confidence in ...
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OpenAI chief Sam Altman predicts "Intelligence Age" will bring "next leap in prosperity"
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sees an "Intelligence Age" coming, with AI bringing huge economic gains in the "next couple of decades." In a private blog post, Altman writes that humanity is entering a new era ...
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Meta's new AI creates custom images from a single photo without extra training
Meta's new AI model "Imagine yourself" can generate a variety of personalized images from a single reference image - without additional training. Meta has introduced a new AI model called "Imagine ...
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TSMC and Samsung consider building $100B chip factories in UAE, with US oversight
Chipmaker giants TSMC and Samsung are discussing plans to build massive semiconductor factories in the United Arab Emirates. The UAE would finance the projects, while the US would oversee operations.
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AI language models ace inductive reasoning but struggle with deductive tasks, new study finds
Researchers have conducted a systematic analysis of large language models' capabilities for inductive and deductive reasoning. The study reveals both surprising strengths and clear limitations of ...
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Meta accused of "open washing" AI models, clashing with open-source purists
Meta has been criticized by the open-source community for its approach to AI development, as the company seeks to define open-source AI on its own terms while potentially exploiting regulatory ...
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Google commits $120 million to global AI education
Google is investing $120 million in a new "Global AI Opportunity Fund" to support AI education worldwide. CEO Sundar Pichai unveiled the initiative during a speech at the inaugural UN Future Summit in ...
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Plan Like a Graph: New prompting method helps language models plan
Researchers from the University of Oxford, Alan Turing Institute, Allen Institute for AI, and LMU Munich explored how large language models handle complex planning tasks. They wanted to see if LLMs ...