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🫠 Google suspends Gemini from making AI images after backlash
📈 Nvidia posts revenue up 265% on booming AI business
💰 Microsoft and Intel strike a custom chip deal that could be worth billions
🛑 AI researchers' open letter demands action on deepfakes before they destroy democracy
🎨 Stability AI's Stable Diffusion 3 preview boasts superior image and text generation capabilities
🎁 + 7 other news you might like
🔮 + 5 handpicked research papers and tools
🫠 Google suspends Gemini from making AI images after backlashLINK
Google has temporarily halted the ability of its Gemini AI to create images of people following criticisms over its generation of historically inaccurate and racially diverse images, such as those of US Founding Fathers and Nazi-era soldiers. This decision comes shortly after Google issued an apology for the inaccuracies in some of the historical images generated by Gemini, amid backlash and conspiracy theories regarding the depiction of race and gender. Google plans to improve Gemini's image generation capabilities concerning people and intends to re-release an enhanced version of this feature in the near future, aiming for more accurate and sensitive representations.
📈 Nvidia posts revenue up 265% on booming AI businessLINK
Nvidia's data center GPU sales soared by 409% due to a significant increase in demand for AI chips, with the company reporting $18.4 billion in revenue for this segment.
The company exceeded Wall Street's expectations in its fourth-quarter financial results, projecting $24 billion in sales for the current quarter against analysts' forecasts of $22.17 billion.
Nvidia has become a key player in the AI industry, with massive demand for its GPUs from tech giants and startups alike, spurred by the growth in generative AI applications.
💰 Microsoft and Intel strike a custom chip deal that could be worth billionsLINK
Intel will produce custom chips designed by Microsoft in a deal valued over $15 billion, although the specific applications of these chips remain unspecified.
The chips will utilize Intel's 18A process, marking a significant step in Intel's strategy to lead in chip manufacturing by offering foundry services for custom chip designs.
Intel's move to expand its foundry services and collaborate with Microsoft comes amidst challenges, including the delayed opening of a $20 billion chip plant in Ohio.
🛑 AI researchers' open letter demands action on deepfakes before they destroy democracyLINK
An open letter from AI researchers demands government action to combat deepfakes, highlighting their threat to democracy and proposing measures such as criminalizing deepfake child pornography.
The letter warns about the rapid increase of deepfakes, with a 550% rise between 2019 and 2023, detailing that 98% of deepfake videos are pornographic, predominantly victimizing women.
Signatories, including notable figures like Jaron Lanier and Frances Haugen, advocate for the development and dissemination of content authentication methods to distinguish real from manipulated content.
🎨 Stability AI's Stable Diffusion 3 preview boasts superior image and text generation capabilitiesLINK
Stability AI introduces Stable Diffusion 3, showcasing enhancements in image generation, complex prompt execution, and text-generation capabilities.
The model incorporates the Diffusion Transformer Architecture with Flow Matching, ranging from 800 million to 8 billion parameters, promising a notable advance in AI-driven content creation.
Despite its potential, Stability AI takes rigorous safety measures to mitigate misuse and collaborates with the community, amidst concerns over training data and the ease of modifying open-source models.
Other news you might like
Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks.LINK
FDA warns against smartwatches, rings claiming blood glucose measurement capability.LINK
'Space junk' unicorn backed by Japanese billionaire wants to clear the skies for Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.LINK
Blue Origin has emerged as the likely buyer for United Launch Alliance.LINK
New research suggests artificial intelligence agents can develop trust similar to that of humans.LINK
Nokia and Nvidia team up for AI-powered mobile networks.LINK
Techstars Seattle is shutting down as accelerator shifts focus to cities with more VC activity.LINK
Latest research and tools
Neural Network Diffusion: neural networks can replicate information spread, improving predictions in various fields.LINK
Ory Kratos: an open-source identity server that's scalable, secure, and now offers passwordless login, SMS support for phone verification and 2FA, translations for global users, native mobile sign-ins with Google and Apple, easier account linking, and session to JWT conversion.LINK
Python Library: boosts the inference speed of your HF models by 6-7 times.LINK
LongRoPE: a new model that can comprehend texts longer than 2 million tokens, expanding what language learning models can understand.LINK
Bridging empirical-theoretical gap in neural network formal language learning: the paper discusses how neural networks can be improved to better understand and process human languages.LINK
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