AI-Generated Buying Guides in Bing, Open-Source LLM by Salesforce, MotionGPT, Microsoft's AI Skills Initiative, ElevenLab's Voice Library and More

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In today’s issue:

1. AI Pulse: News, Insights and Social Spotlight of the Week

2. AI Toolbox: Product Picks of the Week

3. AI Skillset: Learn & Build

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🗞️🗞️ AI Pulse: News, Insights and Social Spotlight of the Week

🔥 News & Insights

1. Microsoft has launched AI-powered shopping tools in Bing search and Edge, including AI-generated buying guides which automatically aggregate product specifications and purchase locations for user queries​, and AI-generated review summaries that provide concise overviews of online product reviews [Details]

2. Salesforce AI Research released XGen-7B, a new open-source 7B LLM trained on 8K input sequence length for 1.5T tokens [Details| Huggingface| GitHub].

3. Researchers present DreamDiffusion, a novel method for generating high-quality images directly from brain EEG signals without the need to translate thoughts into text [Paper].

4. Microsoft announced a new AI Skills Initiative that includes free coursework developed with LinkedIn, a new open global grant challenge and greater access to free digital learning events and resources for AI education [Details].

5. Stability AI announced OpenFlamingo V2, an open-source reproduction of DeepMind's Flamingo model. OpenFlamingo models achieve more than 80% of the performance of their corresponding Flamingo model. [Details].

6. Unity announces two AI-powered tools: Unity Muse and Unity Sentis. Muse generates animations, 2D sprites, textures etc. in the Unity Editor using text and sketches. Sentis lets you embed an AI model in the Unity Runtime for your game or application. It enables AI models to run on any device where Unity runs. [Details].

7. ElevenLabs launched Voice Library - a library and community for sharing AI generated voices designed using their voice Design tool [Details].

8. Merlyn Mind released three open-source education-specific LLMs. Merlyn Mind is building a generative AI platform for education where engagement will be curriculum-aligned, hallucination-resistant, and age-appropriate [Details].

9. Amazon's AWS has launched a $100 million program, the Generative AI Innovation Center, that connects AWS machine learning and artificial intelligence experts with businesses to build and deploy generative AI solutions [Details].

10. New open-source text to video AI model, Zeroscope_v2 XL, released that generates high quality video at 1024 x 576, with no watermarks. [Huggingface ].

11. Researchers present MotionGPT - a motion-language model to handle multiple motion-relevant tasks [Details].

12. Databricks is set to acquire the open-source startup MosaicML for $1.3 billion. MosaicML had recently released MPT-30B, an open-source model licensed for commercial use that outperforms the original GPT-3 [Details].

13. Generative AI-related job postings in the United States jumped about 20% in May as per Indeed’s data [Details].

14. The source code for the algorithm DragGAN (Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold) released and demo available on Huggingface. [GitHub Link | Huggingface]

    

15. A new foundation model, ERNIE 3.5 by China’s Baidu surpassed ChatGPT (3.5) in comprehensive ability scores and outperforms GPT-4 in several Chinese language capabilities [Details].

16. Google announced the first Machine Unlearning Challenge hosted on Kaggle [Details].

17. Adobe is prepared to pay out any claims in case an enterprise customer lose a lawsuit over the use of content generated by Adobe Firefly, the generative AI image tool [Details].

18. Google launched generative AI coding features in Google Colab for Pro+ subscribers in the US [Details]

🔦 Social Spotlight

1. EmbedChain - a new framework to easily create LLM-powered bots over any dataset [Twitter Link].

2. ChatHN: Chat with Hacker News using OpenAI function calling [GitHub Link]

3. A Twitter thread showing the new zoom out feature in Midjourney 5.2 [Link]

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🔍 🛠️ AI Toolbox: Product Picks of the Week

💎 Loora: AI-powered coaching app for English that provides personalized lessons with real-time grammar, pronunciation and fluency feedback.

💎 SnapCalorie: an AI-powered app that provides an estimate of portion sizes, calories, macros and and micronutrient breakdown of a meal from a single photo taken with a smartphone.

💎 Unicorn Platoform AI Builder: Unicorn Platform, the no-code landing page builder, now includes generative AI-assisted website development.

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📕 📚 AI Skillset: Learn & Build

1. Playground AI, the free online AI image creator, released new features including Mixed Image Editing and a collaborative Canvas editor [Official Youtube tutorial ].

2. How to run MPT-30B 4-bit on CPU [YouTube Link].

3. Age of AI: Everything you need to know about artificial intelligence [Link].

4. Intro to LangChain for Beginners: A code-based walkthrough - recorded at the Vancouver AI x LangChain Meetup June 2023 [Youtube Link].

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