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Stability AI Open-Sources Video Generation Model Stable Video Diffusion
Stability AI released the code and model weights for Stable Video Diffusion (SVD), a video generation AI model. When given an input image as context, the model can generate 25 video frames at a resolution of 576x1024 pixels.
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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2023: Amazon Q, Frugal Architectures, Database Upgrades
The 12th edition of re:Invent has just ended in Las Vegas. As expected, artificial intelligence was a key topic of the conference, with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q, a new type of generative AI-powered assistant, the main focus of Adam Selipsky’s keynote.
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AWS Announces Amazon Q, a New Generative AI–Powered Assistant
AWS has introduced Amazon Q, a new generative AI-powered assistant designed for professional applications. This assistant is configurable to align with your company's requirements, facilitating conversations, issue resolution, content generation, and action-taking through the utilization of information present in your code, enterprise systems, and data repositories.
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Meta Announces Generative AI Models Emu Video and Emu Edit
Meta AI Research announced two new generative AI models: Emu Video, which can generate short videos given a text prompt, and Emu Edit, which can edit images given text-based instructions. Both models are based on Meta's Emu foundation model and exhibit state-of-the-art performance on several benchmarks.
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Anthropic Announces Claude 2.1 LLM with Wider Context Window and Support for AI Tools
According to Anthropic, the newest version of Claude delivers many “advancements in key capabilities for enterprises—including an industry-leading 200K token context window, significant reductions in rates of model hallucination, system prompts and our new beta feature: tool use.” Anthropic also announced reduced pricing to improve cost efficiency for our customers across models.
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KubeCon NA 2023: Ishan Sharma on Real-Time Generative AI for Gaming Apps Running on Kubernetes
Kubernetes provides a great platform for gaming applications using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for both game development and gameplay. Ishan Sharma from Google spoke at the recent KubeCon CloudNativeCon NA 2023 Conference about real-time GenAI inference integrated with distributed game servers running on Kubernetes.
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Google Announces New DeepMind Model, Lyria, to Generate High-Quality Music
Google has introduced Google DeepMind's Lyria, an AI music generation model able to generate vocals, lyrics, and background tracks mimicking the style of popular artists. The model is experimentally available on YouTube through two distinct AI experiments.
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xAI Introduces Large Language Model Grok
xAI, the AI company founded by Elon Musk, recently announced Grok, a large language model. Grok can access current knowledge of the world via the X platform and outperforms other LLMs of comparable size, including GPT-3.5, on several benchmarks.
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Cohere Unveils Advanced Embedding Model Embed v3
Cohere has unveiled Embed v3, their most advanced embedding model designed to transform semantic search and generative AI.
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Jina AI's Open-Source Embedding Model Outperforms OpenAI's Ada
Multimodal AI company Jina AI recently released jina-embeddings-v2, a sentence embedding model. The model supports context lengths up to 8192 tokens and outperforms OpenAI's text-embedding-ada-002 on several embedding benchmarks.
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AWS Adds New Code Generation Models to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
AWS recently announced the availability of two new foundation models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart: Code Llama and Mistral 7B. These models can be deployed with one click to provide AWS users with private inference endpoints for code generation tasks.
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AWS Announces the Preview of Amazon CodeWhisperer Customization Capability
Amazon Web Services has announced the preview of Amazon CodeWhisperer Customization Capability. This new functionality empowers users to fine-tune CodeWhisperer, enabling it to provide more precise suggestions by incorporating an organization's proprietary APIs, internal libraries, classes, methods, and industry best practices.
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PlanetScale's Challenge to Oracle: Forking MySQL and Introducing Vector Search
PlanetScale recently announced the intention to fork MySQL adding vector search. While PostgreSQL has been the default open-source choice for vector search, the company behind the Vitess database wants to release a version of MySQL and PlanetScale with vector support.
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Stability AI Releases Generative Audio Model Stable Audio
Harmonai, the audio research lab of Stability AI, has released Stable Audio, a diffusion model for text-controlled audio generation. Stable Audio is trained on 19,500 hours of audio data and can generate 44.1kHz quality audio in realtime using a single NVIDIA A100 GPU.
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Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention, by Neha Narkhede at QCon San Francisco
At the recent QCon San Francisco conference, Neha Narkhede gave a keynote on how generative AI can help improve the state of the art in fraud prevention. She discussed the "knowledge fabric", which is able to capture all information and knowledge on current fraud methods. She also introduced six foundational pillars of AI Risk Decisioning.