AI News - March 11, 2024

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We're excited to bring you this week's roundup of the most fascinating AI news, updates, and breakthroughs! Grab a cup of your favorite beverage, sit back, and explore the incredible world of AI with us.

🔥 Top AI Stories of the Week

1. Google introduces Screen.ai, a new vision language model (VLM) that understands infographics and User Interfaces. [Link]

2. Anthropic claims its new LLM, Claude-3 beats GPT-4 on benchmarks. [Link]

3. Stability releases TripsoSR, a new model that generates 3-D models from a single image in under a second. [Link]

4. Cloudflare announces Firewall for AI, a tool that can be deployed in front of large language models to prevent jailbreaks and other malicious attacks on AI systems. [Link]

5. New startup Haiper announces their text to video generation tool to rival OpenAI’s Sora. [Link]

6. Motorola debuting its new flagship phone, the Moto X50 Ultra, expected to have built-in AI. [Link]

7. Researchers at the University of Sheffield develop an AI tool that detects kidney disease as well as humans and six times faster. [Link]

8. OpenAI adds Multifactor Authentication to ChatGPT. [Link]

9. AI surveillance ‘skyrockets’. Regulations and governments are lagging on addressing this issue. [Link]

10. Use of AI for military applications in Gaza alarms AI experts. [Link]

11. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, predicts that AI will do 95 percent of marketing work currently done by creative agencies. [Link]

12. Ben Goetzel, noted AI expert, predicts the arrival of AI superintelligence by 2027. [Link]

13. Accenture acquires Udacity, a digital training pioneer, in order to upskill professionals in the use of AI. [Link]

14. OpenAI launches ‘read aloud’ which lets their mobile applications speak answers to users. [Link]

15. People’s Republic of China offers computing ‘vouchers’ worth between 140,000 USD and 280,000 USD to tech startups in the AI field. [Link]