Amazon is hiring executives from AI startup Adept onto the company’s 'AGI Autonomy' team

Adept raised $350M in March 2023, which valued the company at $1B - so I'm very curious about terms

Another AI deal similar to the Inflection/Microsoft

Google just announced its largest-ever expansion of Google Translate, adding support for 110 new languages enabled by the company’s PaLM 2 LLM model.

The new languages represent over 614M speakers, covering about 8% of the global population.

Meta’s anticipated Llama-3-405B model is reportedly displayed in a recent WhatsApp update.

The new version may be close to launching.

Humanoid robots that can detect objects, appraise their work and correct mistakes are coming to factories

Meta just announced Meta 3D Gen.

It's a new AI system that can generate detailed, high-quality 3D assets from text descriptions... in less than a minute

Insane amount of potential applications for this in sectors like video games, VR, product design, etc

ElevenLabs announced a new ‘Iconic Voices’ feature

It allows users to have text read by AI-generated voices of Hollywood stars

Most notably, the co. reached licensing agreements for the AI voices of Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds, and more

Runway announced that its AI video generator, Gen-3 Alpha, is now available to all users.

Gen-3 Alpha feels like the biggest leap AI video has taken since Sora, but the generation limits and wait queues so far have been rough

Perplexity announced an updated version of Perplexity Pro Search.

The AI search engine can now perform multi-step reasoning, use Wolfram|Alpha, and perform code execution on complex queries.

The Perplexity team just keeps on shipping.

Nomic AI launched GPT4All 3.0, the latest version of the leading open-source local LLM desktop app.

The new version of the desktop app supports thousands of open-sourced models that you can run on all major operating systems, completely local and private.

NEW: Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road leading the nonexistent driver to roll the windows down to speak with the police.

This is hilarious.

Waymo has since released a statement, apparently blaming the incident on "inconsistent construction signage."

The car "was blocked from navigating back into the correct lane" for about 30 seconds when the officer pulled it over.

"In an effort to clear the intersection, the Waymo vehicle proceeded forward a short distance and pulled into the next available parking lot," the company said.

The Aurora supercomputer located at Illinois is capable of 1 quintillion operations per second, is the size of 4 tennis courts, is the most powerful AI computer on Earth and will soon map the human brain

Endeavor CEO Avi Emanuel says Sam Altman is a conman and that Elon Musk gave him a lot of money to create a non-profit only for OpenAI to be turned into a for-profit company and we should not trust them to take sufficient caution with creating powerful AI

At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai this weekend, SenseTime unveiled SenseNova 5.5.

The company claims the model outperforms GPT-4o in 5 out of 8 key metrics.

While I'd take it with a grain of salt, China's AI startups are showing major progress

Kuaishou’s KLING AI video generator model is now available as a web app for generations up to 10 seconds.

(Though a Chinese phone number is still required for access)