Google wants to sell those Project Astra AR glasses some day, but it won’t be today

Google is slowly peeling back the curtain on its vision to, one day, sell you glasses with augmented reality and multimodal AI capabilities. The company’s plans for those glasses, however, are still blurry. At this point, we’ve seen multiple demos of Project Astra — DeepMind’s effort to build real-time, multimodal apps and agents with AI… Continua a leggere Google wants to sell those Project Astra AR glasses some day, but it won’t be today

Anthropic’s 3.5 Haiku model comes to Claude users

Anthropic has released one of its newest AI models, Claude 3.5 Haiku, for users of its AI chatbot platform, Claude. Reports of 3.5 Haiku’s launch in Claude began rolling in Thursday morning on social media, and TechCrunch was able to independently confirm that the model is available in Claude on the web and mobile. Claude… Continua a leggere Anthropic’s 3.5 Haiku model comes to Claude users

Twelve Labs is building AI that can analyze and search through videos

AI models that understand videos as well as text can unlock powerful new applications. At least, that’s what Jae Lee, the co-founder of Twelve Labs, believes. Granted, Lee’s a little biased. Twelve Labs trains video-analyzing models for a range of use cases. But there may just be something to his assertion. Using Twelve Labs’ models,… Continua a leggere Twelve Labs is building AI that can analyze and search through videos

It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content — and legal experts say that could be a problem

OpenAI has never revealed exactly which data it used to train Sora, its video-generating AI. But from the looks of it, at least some of the data might’ve come from Twitch streams and walkthroughs of games. Sora launched on Monday, and I’ve been playing around with it for a bit (to the extent the capacity… Continua a leggere It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content — and legal experts say that could be a problem

Microsoft’s M12 invests another $22.5M into NeuBird, months after its $22M seed round

Late last year, Gou Rao and Vinod Jayaraman founded NeuBird to automate IT site reliability operations tasks with generative AI. Having sold their previous cloud-native storage startup, Portworx, to PureStorage for $370 million, the pair was well-versed in the IT challenges faced by today’s enterprises. “It’s very hard to find good site reliability engineers. There’s… Continua a leggere Microsoft’s M12 invests another $22.5M into NeuBird, months after its $22M seed round

Watch Google DeepMind’s Genie 2 generate playable 3D worlds

Last week, Google DeepMind announced Genie 2, a new video model that generates plausible, consistent, playable 3D environments based on a prompt image. DeepMind claims that Genie 2 has a slew of new and exciting emerging capabilities that improve the lighting, reflections, and can even generate videos from real-world images. Within these generated worlds, the… Continua a leggere Watch Google DeepMind’s Genie 2 generate playable 3D worlds

This Week in AI: Seeking balance in the deluge of news

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Longtime readers of the newsletter might’ve noticed that we skipped a week last week. That wasn’t our intent, and we do apologize. The reason was we’ve reached an inflection point in the AI news cycle. We’re… Continua a leggere This Week in AI: Seeking balance in the deluge of news

Founder who built Snap’s AI launches a snappy new take on video chatbots

A deep learning scientist whose last startup was acquired by Snap to build its My AI chatbot has raised seed funding for his latest venture: a platform for building and operating real-time, video-based conversational AI agents.  eSelf, as the startup is known, is today coming out of stealth with $4.5 million in its coffers to… Continua a leggere Founder who built Snap’s AI launches a snappy new take on video chatbots

Here’s how OpenAI uses your data when you use ChatGPT through Apple’s integrations

Following Apple’s integration of OpenAI’s ChatGPT within iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, OpenAI has detailed how your data is handled when you use ChatGPT through Apple’s integration.  You can use ChatGPT through Apple’s integrations without logging into a ChatGPT account, but you get access to additional features if you log into your account.… Continua a leggere Here’s how OpenAI uses your data when you use ChatGPT through Apple’s integrations

Google kicks off $20B renewable energy building spree to power AI

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