Generative AI

Amazon announced Alexa+, a major upgrade to its long-running voice assistant.

Although large language models can improve their performance by generating a chain of thought (CoT) — intermediate text tokens that break down the process of responding to a prompt into a series of steps.

The practice of fine-tuning models on synthetic data is becoming well established. But synthetic training data, even if it represents the training task well, may include characteristics like toxicity that impart unwelcome properties in the trained model’s output...

OpenAI introduced an AI agent that performs simple web tasks on a user’s behalf.

Last year, we saw an explosion of models that generate either video or audio outputs in high quality. In the coming year, I look forward to models that produce video clips complete with audio soundtracks including speech, music, and sound effects.

Stability AI’s aim is to liberate artists of all trades from the repetitive, mechanical aspects of their work and help them spend the majority of their time on the creative side. So our highest hope for next year is that generative AI will help people to be more creative and productive.

Video generation exploded in an abundance of powerful models.

The gap is narrowing between closed and open models for video generation.

A new model improves on recent progress in generating interactive virtual worlds from still images.

Amazon introduced a range of models that confront competitors head-on.

Rapid progress in generative AI comes with a hidden environmental cost: mountains of obsolete hardware.

A real-time video generator lets you explore an open-ended, interactive virtual world — a video game without a game engine.

Training successive neural networks on the outputs of previous networks gradually degrades performance. Will future models succumb to the curse of recursive training?

Researchers devised a way to cut the cost of training video generators. They used it to build a competitive open source text-to-video model and promised to release the training code.

Once hailed by OpenAI chief Sam Altman as the “best bromance in tech,” the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI is facing challenges as both companies seek greater independence.