SoftBank CEO is planning a $100b AI chip project
Billionaire CEO and cofounder of SoftBank, Masayoshi Son, plans to raise $100b for an AI chip manufacturing project to compete with NVIDIA. Son named the new…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
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Eugene comes from an electronic engineering background and loves all things tech. When he takes a break from consuming AI news, you'll find him at the snooker table.
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OpenAI introduces Sora, an advanced text-to-video model
OpenAI has unveiled Sora, a state-of-the-art text-to-video (TTV) model that generates realistic videos of up to 60 seconds from a user text prompt. We’ve seen big…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
DAI#26 – Clones, robot toddlers, and AI zombie dictators
Welcome to our weekly roundup of premium handcrafted AI news. This week AI voice clones got banned but became super sneaky. Advanced AI added to anxious…
By Eugene van der Watt · 5 min read
IBM Security shows how AI can hijack audio conversations
IBM Security published research on its Security Intelligence blog to show how AI voice clones could be injected into a live conversation without the participants realizing…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
NVIDIA’s custom chatbot runs locally on RTX AI PCs
NVIDIA has released Chat with RTX as a tech demo of how AI chatbots can be run locally on Windows PCs using its RTX GPUs. The…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
AI dominates Super Bowl commercials
The Super Bowl is the biggest televised event in the USA with many of the 100 million viewers tuning in for the ads rather than the…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
GPT-4V offers big benefits in clinical trial screening
Screening patients to find suitable participants for clinical trials is a labor-intensive, expensive, and error-prone task but AI could soon fix that. A team of researchers…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Introducing Goody-2, the world’s most responsible AI model
LA-based ad agency BRAIN unveiled Goody-2 which it describes as the world’s most responsible AI model and “outrageously safe”. The announcement on the Goody-2 website says…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Does AI display racial and gender bias when evaluating images?
Researchers from the National Research Council Canada performed experiments on four large vision-language models (LVLM) to see if they displayed racial and gender bias. AI models…
By Eugene van der Watt · 4 min read
DAI#25 – Nukes, fighting fakes, and power-hungry AI
Welcome to our roundup of this week’s freshest AI news. This week, AI revealed it thinks firing nukes is a good strategy. The fightback against AI…
By Eugene van der Watt · 5 min read