Silicon Valley hitters take over Trump transition team: “a dozen Musk allies”
About a “dozen Musk allies” have put a pin in their daily routines to serve as unofficial advisers to the Trump transition effort, says the New York Times. Among them,…
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AI4Bharat and Hugging Face Released Indic Parler-TTS: A Multimodal Text-to-Speech Technology for Multilingual Inclusivity and Bridging India’s Linguistic Digital Divide
AI4Bharat and Hugging Face have unveiled the Indic-Parler Text-to-Speech (TTS) system, an initiative designed to advance linguistic inclusivity in AI. This development is an effort to bridge the digital divide…
NVIDIA AI Introduces NVILA: A Family of Open Visual Language Models VLMs Designed to Optimize both Efficiency and Accuracy
Visual language models (VLMs) have come a long way in integrating visual and textual data. Yet, they come with significant challenges. Many of today’s VLMs demand substantial resources for training,…
Grok is now free for all X users
The AI chatbot within X, Grok, is now free for all users – but with some limits. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Google DeepMind’s Patent Transforming Protein Design Through Advanced Atomic-Level Precision and AI Integration
Protein design is crucial in biotechnology and pharmaceutical sciences. Google DeepMind, with its patent, WO2024240774A1, unveils a cutting-edge system that harnesses diffusion models operating on full atom representations. This innovative…
Advancing Large Multimodal Models: DocHaystack, InfoHaystack, and the Vision-Centric Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework
LMMs have made significant strides in vision-language understanding but still need help reasoning over large-scale image collections, limiting their real-world applications like visual search and querying extensive datasets such as…
Will people really pay $200 a month for OpenAI’s new chatbot?
On Thursday, OpenAI released what’s effectively a $200-a-month chatbot — and the AI community didn’t know quite what to make of it. The company’s new ChatGPT Pro plan grants access…
If you can make this AI bot fall in love, you could win thousands of dollars
If you can be the first person to get an AI bot named Freysa to say ‘I love you,’ you’ll win anywhere from $3,000 to tens of thousands of dollars.…
Snyk hits $300M ARR but isn’t rushing to go public
Several factors indicate that Snyk, most recently valued at $7.4 billion, could IPO soon. But the CEO told us why it might not. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For…
Meta’s Nick Clegg says Elon Musk has potential to be a political ‘puppet master’
Meta’s Nick Clegg talked about how Musk is “playing an outsized role in both the election and now the formation of the new US administration.” © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights…