Artificial Intelligence

AI News caught up with president of Ikigai Labs, Kamal Ahluwalia, to discuss all things gen AI, including top tips on how to adopt and utilise the tech, and the importance of embedding ethics into AI design. Could you tell us a little bit about Ikigai Labs and how it can help companies? Ikigai is... Read more » The post Kamal Ahluwalia, Ikigai Labs: How to take your business to the next level with generative AI appeared first on AI News.

Hugging Face has announced the release of Idefics2, a versatile model capable of understanding and generating text responses based on both images and texts. The model sets a new benchmark for answering visual questions, describing visual content, story creation from images, document information extraction, and even performing arithmetic operations based on visual input. Idefics2 leapfrogs... Read more » The post Hugging Face launches Idefics2 vision-language model appeared first on AI News.

OpenAI has announced the opening of a new office in Tokyo to drive its expansion into the Asian market. The new office aims to foster collaboration with the Japanese government, local businesses, and research institutions to develop AI tools tailored to Japan’s unique requirements. Tokyo was selected for OpenAI’s first Asian venture due to its... Read more » The post OpenAI chooses Tokyo for its first Asian office appeared first on AI News.

The UK and South Korea are set to co-host the AI Seoul Summit on the 21st and 22nd of May. This summit aims to pave the way for the safe development of AI technologies, drawing on the cooperative framework laid down by the Bletchley Declaration. The two-day event will feature a virtual leaders’ session, co-chaired... Read more » The post UK and South Korea to co-host AI Seoul Summit appeared first on AI News.

The US and Japan have unveiled a raft of new AI, quantum computing, semiconductors, and other critical technology initiatives. The ambitious plans were announced this week by President Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio following Kishida’s Official Visit to the White House. While the leaders affirmed their commitment across a broad range of areas... Read more » The post US and Japan announce sweeping AI and tech collaboration appeared first on AI News.

OpenAI has announced that its powerful GPT-4 Turbo with Vision model is now generally available through the company’s API, opening up new opportunities for enterprises and developers to integrate advanced language and vision capabilities into their applications. The launch of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on the API follows the initial release of GPT-4’s vision and... Read more » The post OpenAI makes GPT-4 Turbo with Vision API generally available appeared first on AI News.

Stability AI has introduced the latest additions to its Stable LM 2 language model series: a 12 billion parameter base model and an instruction-tuned variant. These models were trained on an impressive two trillion tokens across seven languages: English, Spanish, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, and Dutch. The 12 billion parameter model aims to strike a... Read more » The post Stability AI unveils 12B parameter Stable LM 2 model and updated 1.6B variant appeared first on AI News.

Microsoft is doubling down on its AI efforts in the UK with the opening of a major new AI hub in London. The Microsoft AI London outpost will focus on advancing state-of-the-art language models, supporting infrastructure, and tooling for foundation models. The hub will be led by AI scientist and engineer Jordan Hoffmann, who previously... Read more » The post Microsoft AI opens London hub to access ‘enormous pool’ of talent appeared first on AI News.

The popular ML Olympiad is back for its third round with over 20 community-hosted machine learning competitions on Kaggle. The ML Olympiad – organised by groups including ML GDE, TFUG, and other ML communities – aims to provide developers with hands-on opportunities to learn and practice machine learning skills by tackling real-world challenges. Over the... Read more » The post ML Olympiad returns with over 20 challenges appeared first on AI News.

Beijing is expected to ramp up sophisticated AI-generated disinformation campaigns to influence several high-profile elections in 2024, according to Microsoft’s threat intelligence team. Microsoft warned that state-backed Chinese cyber groups – with assistance from North Korean actors – “are likely to target” the presidential and legislative elections in countries such as the US, South Korea,... Read more » The post Microsoft: China plans to disrupt elections with AI-generated disinformation appeared first on AI News.