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⚔️ China unveils Sora challenger
📰 OpenAI to train AI on Financial Times content
🫠 Meta's AI ad platform is glitching and blowing through cash
🤖 Tesla and Baidu join forces to build cars that will drive themselves in China
💥 New iPad Pro may use an AI-enabled M4 chip
👁️ OpenAI hit with GDPR complaint over ChatGPT's 'hallucination' failure
🎁 + 7 other news you might like
🔮 + 7 handpicked research papers and tools
⚔️ China unveils Sora challengerLINK
China introduces its own text-to-video AI tool named Vidu, created by Shengshu Technology and Tsinghua University, which can generate 1080p videos up to 16 seconds long from text prompts.
Vidu, aiming to compete with OpenAI's Sora, showcases advancements in AI with capabilities to produce short, imaginative videos featuring consistent characters and scenarios.
The development reflects China's ambition to rival global AI leaders, amidst challenges like computing power limitations and export restrictions on essential AI training components like Nvidia's A100 and H100 GPUs.
📰 OpenAI to train AI on Financial Times contentLINK
The Financial Times has made a deal with OpenAI to license their content and collaborate on developing AI tools, with plans to integrate FT content summaries, quotes, and links within ChatGPT responses.
OpenAI commits to developing new AI products with the Financial Times, which already utilizes OpenAI products, including a generative AI search function, indicating a deeper technological partnership.
This licensing agreement places the Financial Times among other news organizations engaging with AI, contrasting with some organizations like The New York Times, which is pursuing legal action against OpenAI for copyright infringement.
🫠 Meta's AI ad platform is glitching and blowing through cashLINK
Meta's automated ad platform, Advantage Plus shopping campaigns, has been heavily overspending and failing to deliver expected sales outcomes for advertisers.
Marketers have experienced unpredictable costs and poor performance with Advantage Plus, citing instances of ad budgets being rapidly depleted and a lack of transparent communication from Meta.
Despite efforts to address technical issues, ongoing problems with Advantage Plus have led some businesses to revert to manual ad buying and question the efficiency of AI-driven advertising on Meta's platforms.
🤖 Tesla and Baidu join forces to build cars that will drive themselves in ChinaLINK
Elon Musk's Tesla has partnered with Chinese tech giant Baidu to collect data on China's public roads, aiming to develop and deploy Tesla's full self-driving (FSD) system in China. The partnership enables Tesla to meet local regulatory requirements by using Baidu’s mapping service, facilitating the legal operation of its FSD software on Chinese roads.Elon Musk also claimed companies need to spend at least $10 billion on AI this year, similar to Tesla's investment, to stay competitive.
💥 New iPad Pro may use an AI-enabled M4 chipLINK
The upcoming iPad Pro lineup is anticipated to feature the latest M4 chipset, marking a significant upgrade from the current M2 chipset-equipped models.
The new M4 chipset in the iPad Pro is expected to introduce advanced AI capabilities, positioning the device as Apple's first truly AI-powered product.
Apple's "Let Loose" event, scheduled for May 7, will also showcase new OLED iPad Pro variants and the first 12.9-inch iPad Air, alongside potential launches of a new Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil.
👁️ OpenAI hit with GDPR complaint over ChatGPT's 'hallucination' failureLINK
OpenAI faces a new GDPR privacy complaint in the EU, filed by noyb on behalf of an individual, due to ChatGPT's generation of incorrect personal information without a means to correct it.
The complaint challenges ChatGPT's compliance with the GDPR, emphasizing the right of EU citizens to have erroneous data corrected and OpenAI's refusal to amend incorrect information.
OpenAI's situation highlights tension with GDPR requirements, including rights to rectification and transparency, as authorities in various EU countries investigate or consider actions against the company.
Other news you might like
Apple given six months to align iPad with EU's Digital Markets Act Regulations.LINK
Meta’s oversight body prepares to lay off workers.LINK
Musk’s xAI shows there’s more money on the sidelines for AI startups.LINK
Polestar unveils ‘world’s first’ 10-minute charge EV prototype.LINK
Humanoid robots are learning to fall well.LINK
As quantum computers advance, encryption methods will need to keep up.LINK
A six-armed robot for precision pollination.LINK
Latest research and tools
Dotenv: a Unix utility that loads environment variables from a .env file in the current directory before executing a specified program.LINK
Llama 3: a new model by Meta, offering the most advanced openly available large language abilities to date.
Moondream: a compact vision language model optimized for performance on edge devices.
Dolphin Llama 3: an uncensored version of the Llama 3 model enhanced by Eric Hartford, equipped with diverse skills including instruction following, conversation, and coding.
Qwen 110B: a groundbreaking model with over 100 billion parameters, achieving superior performance benchmarks.LINK
Dokploy: an open-source, self-hostable Platform as a Service (PaaS) that leverages Docker and Traefik to enable easy deployment and management of various applications and databases on any VPS.LINK
Memary: an open-source tool that overcomes the limitations of finite context windows in language learning models by storing information in knowledge graphs, enabling autonomous agents to infer user knowledge, and retrieve only relevant information for meaningful interactions.LINK
Angle-grinder: a command-line tool that parses, aggregates, and analyzes logs, capable of processing over 1 million rows per second, with live-updating visualizations in the terminal.LINK
Pulumi AI: a tool involved in manipulating Google search outcomes by inserting AI-generated answers.LINK
Haystack DB: a scalable, distributed database that provides 10x faster search with binary embeddings than FAISS, utilizing a durable, persistent data structure optimized for fast access, even on disk.LINK
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