AudioLDM 2, Political bias: ChatGPT vs LlaMA, MetaGPT, Vimeo's AI video tools, Real-time speech generation and more
Greetings and welcome to this week's AI Brews for a concise roundup of the week's major developments in AI.
In today’s issue (Issue #27):
AI Pulse: Weekly News & Insights at a Glance
AI Toolbox: Product Picks of the Week
AI Skillset: Learn & Build
🗞️🗞️ AI Pulse: Weekly News & Insights at a Glance
🔥 News
Anthropic released a new version of Claude Instant, which offers faster performance at a lower price, with improvements in quote extraction, multilingual support, and question answering. It hallucinates less and is more resistant to jailbreaks [Details].
Stability AI announced the release of StableCode, its first LLM generative AI product for coding [Details].
Researchers present AudioLDM 2, a framework that utilizes the same learning method for speech, music, and sound effect generation [Details | GitHub].
Researchers from CMU and others conducted tests on 14 large language models and found that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4 were the most left-wing libertarian, while Meta’s LlaMA was the most right-wing authoritarian [Details].
The famed Stanford Smallville, a simulation of 25 AI agents that inhabit a digital Westworld, is now open-source [GitHub ].
Salesforce announced the general availability of Einstein Studio, a new, easy-to-use “bring your own model” (BYOM) solution that enables companies to use their custom AI models to power any sales, service, marketing, commerce, and IT application within Salesforce [Details].
ElevenLabs released input streaming for streaming LLM responses and generating speech in real-time, with sub-1-second latency [GitHub].
Researchers from CMU and ByteDance present AvatarVerse, a stable pipeline for generating high-quality 3D avatars controlled by both text descriptions and pose guidance [Details].
PUG, new research from Meta AI on photorealistic, semantically controllable datasets using Unreal Engine for robust model evaluation [Details].
Stability AI released its first Japanese language model (LM), Japanese StableLM Alpha, for Japanese speakers [Details].
Alibaba will open-source its large language model (LLM) called Tongyi Qianwen, which was launched in April this year [Details].
OpenAI launched its own web crawler, GPTBot, for training future AI models [Details].
Custom instructions are now also available to ChatGPT users on the free plan, except for in the EU & UK where OpenAI will be rolling it out soon [Link].
Detroit's been hit with three lawsuits on false arrests made due to AI-powered facial recognition software [Details].
White House launches ‘AI Cyber Challenge’, with collaboration from Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI, to explore how AI can be used to protect and defend the U.S.’s most vital software [Details].
Nvidia has partnered with Hugging Face - Hugging Face will offer a new service, called Training Cluster as a Service, to simplify the creation of new and custom generative AI models for the enterprise [Details].
Google announced Project IDX, a new AI-enabled browser-based development environment to build full-stack web and multiplatform applications, with popular frameworks and languages [Link].
Nvidia announced NVIDIA AI Workbench, a developer toolkit to quickly create, test, and customize pretrained generative AI models and LLMs on a PC or a workstation [Details].
🔦 Weekly Spotlight
Researchers develop AI that can log keystrokes acoustically with 92-95 percent accuracy [Link].
MetaGPT: The Multi-Agent Framework - MetaGPT takes a one line requirement as input and outputs user stories / competitive analysis / requirements / data structures / APIs / documents, etc [GitHub]
Sweep: an AI junior developer that transforms bug reports & feature requests into code changes [GitHub].
🔍 🛠️ AI Toolbox: Product Picks of the Week
Hyperlight: Natural-sounding AI agents for customer support that talk to customers via phone and chat and integrate with internal systems to quickly resolve issues.
Vimeo: Vimeo recently launched AI-powered video creation tools that include AI-powered script generator, built-in teleprompter, text-based video editor and AI tool to identify and remove “ums” and pauses.
AI & Analytics Engine by PI.EXCHANGE: Build AI models and get predictions, without coding.
101.school: A tool for creating AI-generated 13-week courses on subjects you're curious about. Enter a topic, and choose to receive the course via email or read it on the site.
📕 📚 AI Skillset: Learn & Build
Here’s why you should be using Custom Instructions in ChatGPT [Link].
Catching up on the weird world of LLMs [Link].
Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize? [Link].
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