🤖 Google reveals massive AI updates

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In today's rundown:

• 🤖 Google goes all-in on AI

• 🤗 HuggingFace releases Transformers Agent

• 🔮 Scale AI releases Donovan and EGP

• 🎥 Synthesia Research releases HumanRF

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🤖 Google Goes All-in on AI

Google's recent I/O event was a thrilling showcase of AI-centered innovations. The tech giant made it clear that it is evolving as an "AI-first" company.

Here’s the rundown: (sign up for those sweet waitlists ASAP)

• Duet AI for Google Workspace enhancements, including AI in Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Slides [Visit Google Workspace]

• Google Maps to offer an 'Immersive View for Routes' [Visit Google Blog]

• Google Photos is getting a 'Magic Editor' feature [Visit Google Blog]

• Google Search will become interactive, responding to questions in a conversational manner like ChatGPT [Visit Google Blog]

• PaLM 2, Google’s powerful new LLM that will power over 25 new Google products [Visit Google Blog]

• Bard upgrades: waitlist removed, available in 180 countries, moved to PaLM 2 [Visit Google Blog]

• Partnership with Adobe Firefly, making image-to-text available directly in Bard [Visit blog.adobe.com]

• Med-PaLM, A LLM from Google Research, designed for the medical domain [Visit sites.research.google]

• MusicLM, describe a musical idea and hear it come to life [Visit Google Blog]

• StudioBot, an AI coding bot for developers [Visit developer.android.com]

Some interesting facts from the event: Google mentioned “AI“ 143 times in today’s presentation (check it out), and Google stock increased by $56 Billion.

Talk about putting on a show. Watch the recap videos Visit io.google.

🤗 HuggingFace Releases Transformers Agent

HuggingFace just launched the Transformers Agent, a coding language model that can generate other HuggingFace models on-the-fly for multimodal tasks.

This is a game-changer. By using Hugging Face tools to develop new ones, you make the code accessible to others, essentially increasing its power with every use. This is a step towards enabling open-source to grow and get better indefinitely.

Not only does this remove the barrier of entry to machine learning, but it’s a true testament to the power of open-source right now.

🔮 Scale AI Releases Donovan and EGP

Scale AI recently unveiled two groundbreaking platforms tailored for governments and enterprises: Scale Donovan and Scale EGP.

Scale Donovan serves as an AI copilot for defense, streamlining decision-making processes for operators by condensing weeks of analysis into mere minutes.

Meanwhile, Scale EGP provides a full-stack solution for enterprises and government agencies to leverage LLMs without disclosing data to third-party AI companies.

Of note: Fox Corporation and Koch Industries already utilize Scale EGP in their operations.

🎥 Synthesia Research Releases HumanRF

Synthesia Research, the research team behind the powerful text-to-talking head/video generation tool, just released HumanRF: High-Fidelity Neural Radiance Fields for Humans in Motion.

Essentially, this technology captures a human movement from multiple angles and allows playback from unseen perspectives while compressing data and preserving high-quality details.

The recent rapid improvements in NeRF technology will significantly improve applications like movies, video games, video calls, and even the so-called "metaverse" that everyone has been discussing these days.

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