AI News - July 03, 2023

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🔥 Top AI Stories of the Week

  1. Playground AI introduces Mixed Image Editing: a new way to combine real and synthetic images from a text prompt and graphical directions. [Link]

  2. AI Google Sheets “Help me organize” feature generates custom templates from a text prompt. [Link]

  3. Microsoft announces AI-powered Bing and Edge for better search, more complete answers, a new chat experience and generated content. [Link]

  4. RunwayML announces $141M funding round from Google, Nvidia and Salesforce. [Link]

  5. Inflection AI raises $1.3B and are building the world’s largest AI cluster. [Link]

  6. Databricks acquires MosaicML for $1.3 billion. [Link]

  7. LinkedIn, partnering with UC Berkeley, announces a deepfake detector. Their Trust Data Team says they can detect 99.6% of GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) generated profile photos. [Link]

  8. Reka AI “comes out of stealth” with $58M in funding to build generative models and advance AI research. Their first product, Yasa (a multimodal assistant) can be deployed on-prem. [Link]

  9. A new research paper proposes LENS, which lets you question images. It combines computer vision and LLMs (Large Language Models). [Link]

  10. Alignment Lab released Open Orca, a dataset bringing GPT-4 reasoning to open models. [Link]

  11. A new paper proposes Position Interpolation (PI), a technique that extends the context window sizes of pretrained LLMs such as LLaMA models to up to 32768 with minimal fine-tuning. [Link]

  12. Visual Navigation Transformer (ViNT) aims to bring the success of general-purpose pre-trained models to vision-based robotic navigation. [Link]

  13. Magic123 is a new approach for generating high-quality, textured 3D meshes from a single unposed image. It outperforms previous image-to-3D techniques. [Link]

  14. Salesforce releases a LLaMa equivalent for commercial use. [Link]

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