meta Meta Unveils VR Legs, Hulu Hikes Prices, and Microsoft Adopts DALL-E 2 This week in tech, Meta reveals leg avatars and a pricey new headset, while Hulu increases subscription costs. Microsoft also integrates AI image generator DALL-E 2 into its consumer apps.
openai OpenAI Whisper Delivers Open-Source Multilingual Speech Recognition OpenAI unveils Whisper, a 1.6 billion parameter AI model that transcribes and translates speech in 97 languages using weakly supervised web data.
yummy Estonian Startup Yummy Uses AI to Fully Customize Meal Planning Yummy leverages generative AI to create personalized recipes and meal plans based on individual tastes, dietary restrictions, and budgets. The platform aims to eliminate the hassle of nutritional research and grocery shopping by delivering tailored outcomes.
rpa Robotic Process Automation Market Faces Slowing Growth and Investor Doubts Automation Anywhere secures a $200 million debt round amid broader signs of trouble in the robotic process automation sector, including plunging rival stock prices and slowing growth forecasts.
deepmind DeepMind AI Breaks 50-Year-Old Matrix Multiplication Record DeepMind's AlphaZero AI discovers a faster method for matrix multiplication, beating a 50-year-old computer science record. This breakthrough promises to speed up thousands of everyday computing tasks and reduce energy consumption.
john deere John Deere Aims to Lead AI and Robotics with Fully Autonomous Farms by 2030 John Deere is transforming its 185-year-old heavy machinery business into a leading AI and robotics company, showcasing a fully autonomous tractor at CES. The company plans to roll out a complete autonomous farming system for row crops by the end of the decade.
openai OpenAI Makes DALL-E Image Generator Publicly Available OpenAI drops its waitlist, allowing anyone to use its impressive DALL-E artificial intelligence image generator. NPR journalists test the tool by creating unique, public radio-themed artwork.
meta Meta Unveils Make-A-Video AI That Turns Text Prompts Into Moving Clips Meta introduces Make-A-Video, a new artificial intelligence system that generates short videos from simple text descriptions. The tool builds on previous text-to-image technology by teaching the AI to understand real-world motion.
meta Meta Unveils Make-A-Video AI That Turns Text Into Short Clips Meta introduces Make-A-Video, a new artificial intelligence system that generates five-second silent video clips from simple text prompts. The tool expands on recent text-to-image generators by predicting how pixels change over time.
meta Meta's Make-A-Video AI Generates Creepy State-of-the-Art Clips From Text Meta unveils Make-A-Video, a new text-to-video AI system that combines image diffusion with unsupervised video learning to achieve state-of-the-art results. Despite the impressive technical leap, the generated clips feature a distinctly surreal and nightmarish quality.
openai OpenAI Drops DALL-E 2 Waitlist, Opens AI Image Generator to All OpenAI removes the waitlist for its DALL-E 2 text-to-image generator, allowing immediate public access. The platform currently sees over 1.5 million users generating two million images daily.
ai James Earl Jones Licenses AI to Replicate Darth Vader Voice James Earl Jones allows Ukrainian AI firm Respeecher to clone his iconic Darth Vader voice using archival audio. The technology currently features in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series as the 91-year-old actor steps back from the role.
hugging face Hugging Face and ServiceNow Launch BigCode to Open Source AI Code Generation Hugging Face and ServiceNow partner on BigCode, a new project aiming to build and openly release a state-of-the-art code-generating AI model. The initiative directly addresses the controversies surrounding proprietary systems by committing to responsible and transparent development practices.
google Google DreamBooth AI Brings Personalization to Text-to-Image Generation Google and Boston University introduce DreamBooth, a new AI model that allows users to personalize text-to-image generators using just a few reference photos. The technology extracts a subject from its original context and places it into entirely new scenes.
disperse Construction Tech Firm Disperse Raises $16M for AI Site Tracking U.K. startup Disperse secures $16 million to expand its AI-powered platform that creates digital twins of construction sites to improve efficiency and resolve disputes.