Meta announces generative AI features for advertisers
Meta today announced an AI Sandbox for advertisers to help them create alternative copies, background generation through text prompts and image cropping for Facebook or Instagram ads.
The first feature lets brands generate different variations of the same copy for different audiences while trying t
‘AI-powered’ VC firm Vela emerges from stealth with $25M under management
Six years ago, Yi?it Ihlamur, a former senior program manager at Google, observed that AI was surpassing human capabilities in certain areas — at least by his estimation. Equipped with this perspective, he looked into various sectors with the goal of tackling a problem that he could work on
Hands on with Google’s AI-powered music generator
Can AI work backward from a text description to generate a coherent song? That’s the premise of MusicLM, the AI-powered music creation tool Google released yesterday during the kickoff of its I/O conference.
MusicLM, which was trained on hundreds of thousands of hours of audio to learn to cre
AI2 is developing a large language model optimized for science
PaLM 2. GPT-4. The list of text-generating AI practically grows by the day.
Most of these models are walled behind APIs, making it possible for researchers to see exactly what makes them tick. But increasingly, community efforts are yielding open source AI that’s as sophisticated, if not more
Making foundation models accessible: The battle between closed and open source AI
The massive explosion of generative AI models for text and image has been unavoidable lately. As these models become increasingly capable, “foundation model” is a relatively new term being tossed around. So what is a foundation model?
The term remains somewhat vague. Some define it by the numbe
Writer introduces product that could help reduce hallucinated content in its LLMs
As companies explore generative AI more deeply, one of the more confounding issues is the hallucination problem, where if the model doesn't know the answer, it simply makes one up, whether it makes sense or not. To work in business, finding a way to mitigate this problem is paramount.
Today, Wr
Android Studio gets a built-in coding bot
Android Studio, like so much of Google’s product portfolio, is getting its infusion of AI today at the company’s annual I/O developer conference. Android Studio Hedgehog, the upcoming version of Android Studio currently in the canary release channel, will be the first to add support for
Google brings AI and more to the Play Store
Google is bringing its AI technology to the Play Store. At this week’s developer event, Google I/O, the company announced several new ways for developers to use its AI to build and optimize their Android apps for the Play Store, alongside a host of other tools to grow their app’s audien
Google’s Firebase gets AI extensions, opens up its marketplace
Firebase, Google’s backend-as-a-service platform for application developers, is getting its fair share of new features at the company’s I/O developer conference today, but the marquee update is the addition of AI extensions, powered by Google’s PaLM API. That’s in addition t
‘Universal translator’ dubs and lip-syncs speakers — but Google warns against misuse
Google is testing a powerful new translation service that redubs video in a new language while also synchronizing the speaker’s lips with words they never spoke. It could be very useful for a lot of reasons, but the company was upfront about the possibility of abuse and the steps taken to pre
Android is getting generative AI wallpapers you create with suggested prompts
Google is building upon Material You to give users the option to create a more personalized experience on their devices, the company announced at it I/O developer conference today. Most notably, the company announced generative AI wallpapers that will roll out this fall. With generative AI wallpape
With Project Tailwind, Google is using AI to make note-taking smarter
Google’s building an AI-powered notebook tool called Project Tailwind, the company revealed at its I/O developer conference. The goal, Google says, is to take a user’s freeform notes and automatically organize and summarize them.
To use Tailwind — which is available through Labs,
Google’s Magic Compose can rewrite your texts using AI
Google today introduced a new feature that combines Android’s guided customization with its advances in generative AI to help people compose more personal messages. The feature, called Magic Compose, was demoed briefly on stage this afternoon at the company’s I/O developer conference, s
Google launches a GitHub Copilot competitor
At its annual I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of a number of AI-centric coding tools, including its competitor to GitHub’s Copilot, a chat tool for asking questions about coding and Google Cloud services, as well as AI-assisted coding in Google’s no-code AppS