Alexa gets smarter with Generative AI

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📰 News: OpenAI upgrades Image-gen tool, Amazon Alexa gets Generative AI boost.

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OpenAI debuts new version of Image Generation Tool

OpenAI released a new version of its popular image generation AI, Dall-E, with significant upgrades -

• Integration with ChatGPT - Use ChatGPT to create brainstorm ideas and create better prompts.

• Accurate Images - It understands input context better, creating exceptionally accurate images.

• Focus on Safety - It decline requests that ask for an image in the style of a living artist and creators can also opt their images out from training of future image generation models.

Dall-E will be available to ChatGPT+ customers in October.

Amazon upgrades Alexa with Generative AI

Amazon’s Alexa home assistants are getting a major upgrade with integration of generative AI models. Alexa gets a more human-like voice capable of holding natural conversations without being prompted by a wake word.

Alexa will also be able to perform real-world actions by controlling your devices. For instance “Alexa, there’s a mess in here” would trigger a robotic vacuum cleaner. Plus, it learns from your conversations to offer personalized responses. Take a look at the demo video.

New AI chip is 25x efficient

SambaNova, a silicon-valley startup with $1B in funding, released a new processor capable of running massive AI models at 25 times more efficiently than the current industry standard GPUs

An AI model with 5 Trillion parameters can be run on a cluster of just 8 chips, something that today needs hundreds of GPUs.

But instead of selling chips, the startup will sell access to its custom-built technology stack, allowing companies to have their own large language models (LLM) up and running in just days.

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 Today in Tech 

• In-Chat Payments on WhatsApp : WhatsApp unveils Flows, which lets merchants build richer shopping experiences, like by letting users pick a flight seat or order a meal without leaving the app (link)

• Meta-Prompts: Specific phrases like “Let's think step by step”, “Take a breath” to AI models result in more accurate results! (link)

• BlueWillow: LimeWire, which pivoted from piracy to content creation, acquires generative AI image tool BlueWillow, which has 2.5M Discord members and has made 500M+ images (link)

• Anti-Party AI: How Airbnb cut parties reported on the service by 55% from 2020 to 2022 and launched an anti-party AI system (link)

• Brain Implants: Elon’s brain implant startup, Neuralink, starts recruiting for the first human trials to help paralysis patients (link)

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