Google introduced its new Lumiere text-to-video foundation model research in a GitHub post this week. The model is not available for use or download but highlights Google’s innovation and the results of a new model design. It outputs videos of…
Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Soundcloud Spotify Overcast Podcast Feed Transcript Intro Hello, it’s Daniel Bryant here. Before we start today’s podcast, I wanted to tell you about QCon London 2024, our flagship conference…
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ElevenLabs announced a new $80 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Sequoia, and others. Bloomberg reported that the company’s valuation shot up to $1.1 billion. That is up from a $99 million valuation in May…
Apple Inc., reaching a make-or-break point in its decade-old effort to build a car, has pivoted to a less ambitious design with the intent of finally bringing an electric vehicle to market. After previously envisioning a truly driverless car, the…
Mistral AI recently released Mixtral 8x7B, a sparse mixture of experts (SMoE) large language model (LLM). The model contains 46.7B total parameters, but performs inference at the same speed and cost as models one-third that size. On several LLM benchmarks,…
Key Takeaways Generative AI will transform communication and information sharing in all business processes, across all industries The full impact of generative AI won’t be clear for many years AI transformation won’t be consistent across all areas,…
The home of the director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency was targeted in late December in a swatting incident involving a false emergency call, the agency said. Police in Arlington, Virginia, received a hoax call at around…
This week’s Java roundup for January 15th, 2024 features news highlighting: JEP 455 Proposed to Target for JDK 23, JDK 22 in Rampdown Phase Two, an updated Jakarta EE 11 release plan, GraalVM, and Oracle’s Critical Patch Update for January…
China’s imports of chipmaking machines jumped last year as firms ramped up investment in an attempt to get around US-led efforts to hobble the nation’s semiconductor industry. Imports of the machinery used to make computer chips rose 14% in 2023…
Washington state issued new guidelines for K-12 public schools last week based on the principle of “embracing a human-centered approach to AI,” which also embraces the use of AI in the education process. The state’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, Chris…
A group of Dish Network Corp. creditors sent a letter to the company’s board alleging that the satellite television provider’s restructuring plan is illegal, and threatening legal action if the deal isn’t reversed, according to people with knowledge of the…