Generative AI

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.

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.