Generative AI

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.

Text embedding models are often used to retrieve text, cluster text, determine similarity between texts, and generate initial embeddings for text classifiers. A new embedding model comes with adapters that specialize it to each of these use cases.

A German court dismissed a copyright lawsuit against LAION, the nonprofit responsible for large-scale image datasets used to train Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and other image generators.

OpenAI launched a suite of new and updated tools to help AI developers build applications and reduce costs.

Meta upped the ante for text-to-video generation with new systems that produce consistent characters and matching soundtracks.

Large language models can process small spreadsheets, but very large spreadsheets often exceed their limits for input length. Researchers devised a method that processes large spreadsheets so LLMs can answer questions about them.

Adobe is putting a video generator directly into its popular video editing application.

Meta extended its Llama family of models into two new categories: vision-language and sizes that are small enough to fit in edge devices.

The AI startup Runway is helping to retool Lionsgate, the producer of blockbuster movie franchises like The Hunger Games and John Wick, for the era of generated video.

The parade of ever more capable LLMs continues with Qwen 2.5.

Studies have established that large language models can memorize the text passages they’ve been trained on repeatedly and regurgitate them when prompted in adversarial and, though rarely, in benign ways.

SambaNova raised the speed limit for access to the largest model in the Llama 3.1 family — and it’s free.

Preliminary versions of OpenAI’s new model family were trained explicitly to think step-by-step, yielding outstanding marks in math, science, and coding — but users can’t see their reasoning steps.