A New Hybrid AI/Human Social Network

Former Snap engineer Bobby Murphy has launched a new social network called Butterflies, which integrates AI-driven entities that can engage in conversations, provide companionship, and assist with various tasks. The platform's AI companions are designed to learn from user interactions to continuously improve their responses and adapt to individual preferences, creating a personalized and dynamic social experience that evolves with the user. Continue Reading →

AI-Generated Audio for Video From DeepMind

DeepMind has unveiled V2A, an AI-powered technology capable of generating audio from a video input (not from a text description, but from the video input itself). As this technology matures, it's going to have an outsized impact on video creation workflows. Continue Reading →

Synthetic Data for a Synthetic World

As you know, AI models rely on vast amounts of real-world data scraped from the web, often plagued by privacy issues and inherent biases, and there has been talk about the possibility of running out of new data to train on. Synthetic data, however, offers a compelling alternative, and NVIDIA just introduced a vast synthetic data set. Continue Reading →

OpenAI Appoints Former NSA Head to Board of Directors

OpenAI has appointed Paul M. Nakasone, a retired U.S. Army general and former head of the National Security Agency (NSA), to its board of directors. Nakasone, who led the NSA from 2018 to February 2024, will join OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee (led by CEO Sam Altman) and will contribute to the company's efforts to enhance cybersecurity using AI. Continue Reading →

Mistral is Now Worth $6 Billion, But I Have a Question

AI startup Mistral has raised €600 million ($644 million), tripling its valuation to $6 billion. This latest funding round (led by General Catalyst and featuring investors like Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, and IBM) will fuel the development of both proprietary and open-source AI models. Continue Reading →

AppleGPT Coming Next Week

It's still technically a rumor, but major news outlets are widely reporting that Apple and OpenAI are set to announce a major partnership to integrate ChatGPT into the iPhone’s operating system. The announcement is expected next week at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The rumor is that this partnership will make ChatGPT a core feature on every iPhone, ending the long-reported battle between Google and OpenAI to power the central AI chatbot on the iPhone. Continue Reading →