Tech & Society
Conversing With the Departed: Lifelike avatars of deceased loved ones, a new market in video generation
Advances in video generation have spawned a market for lifelike avatars of deceased loved ones.
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Tech & Society
Chatbot for Minority Languages: Startup Two AI launches SUTRA, a multilingual model for South Asian markets
An AI startup that aims to crack markets in southern Asia launched a multilingual competitor to GPT-4.
Tech & Society
U.S. to Probe AI Monopoly Concerns: U.S. antitrust regulators to investigate AI giants Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI
U.S. antitrust regulators are preparing to investigate a trio of AI giants.
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Data Points
Universal Music partners with SoundLabs to clone artists’ voices: Plus, Anthropic introduces Artifacts on Claude.ai
Twice a week, Data Points brings you the top AI news in brief. This week, that includes: BigCodeBench’s new metrics for LLMs’ programming abilities, Gen-3 Alpha, a new video model from Runway, Context caching in Google’s Gemini API...
Data Points
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is powerful, inexpensive, and speedy: Plus, Dream Machine excels at text-to-video and image-to-video
This week’s top AI stories, handpicked for you: A powerful new open source coding model, MixEval reevaluates top LLMs, Meta’s Chameleon available for research...
Letters
Coding Agents Are Evolving From Novelties to Widely Useful Tools: Three research papers offer outstanding ways to use large language models to build coding agents that perform software development tasks automatically.
On Father’s Day last weekend, I sat with my daughter to help her practice solving arithmetic problems.
The Batch Newsletter
Open Model Bonanza, Private Benchmarks for Fairer Tests, More Interactive Music Generation, Diffusion + GAN
The Batch AI News and Insights: On Father’s Day last weekend, I sat with my daughter to help her practice solving arithmetic problems.
Machine Learning Research
For Faster Diffusion, Think a GAN: Adversarial Diffusion Distillation, a method to accelerate diffusion models
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) produce images quickly, but they’re of relatively low quality. Diffusion image generators typically take more time, but they produce higher-quality output. Researchers aimed to achieve the best of both worlds.
Tech & Society
From Clip to Composition: Udio expands text-to-music generator, now extends existing recordings
Is your song’s verse in need of a chorus? A popular text-to-music generator can extend existing recordings while maintaining their musical character.
Tech & Society
Private Benchmarks for Fairer Tests: Scale AI launches SEAL leaderboards to benchmark model performance
Scale AI offers new leaderboards based on its own benchmarks.
Jun 19, 2024
More New Open Models: New models from Nvidia, Alibaba, and Stability AI expand open options
A trio of powerful open and semi-open models give developers new options for both text and image generation.