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In today’s edition:

• Google Gemini 2.0 Redefines AI with Multimodal Tools

• Meta to Add AI-Generated Users on its Platforms

• LG Unveils AI-Powered Gram Laptops at CES 2025

• Alibaba Slashes Prices of its Visual AI Model

• And more AI news….

Top Developments

Google

Google Gemini 2.0 Redefines AI with Multimodal Tools

The Gist: Google’s Gemini 2.0 introduces groundbreaking multimodal AI capabilities, enabling advanced reasoning, real-time collaboration, and innovative applications like Project Astra and Mariner.

Key Details:

• Gemini 2.0 supports multimodal inputs/outputs, real-time video/audio streaming, and tools like Google Search and native text-to-image generation.

• Projects Astra and Mariner showcase Gemini 2.0’s ability to assist with everyday tasks, browser navigation, and interactive research.

• Gemini 2.0 Flash doubles performance, improves latency, and enhances dialogue capabilities, offering tools for developers and trusted testers.

• Extensive safety measures, ethical considerations, and trusted tester feedback are central to Gemini 2.0’s responsible development.

Meta

Meta to Add AI-Generated Users on its Platforms

The Gist: Meta plans to integrate AI-generated users and content across its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, aiming to create more engaging and interactive experiences while raising concerns about misinformation and content quality.

Key Details:

• Meta envisions AI profiles with bios, profile pictures, and content-sharing capabilities becoming as common as regular accounts.

• Planned features include AI assistants, photo editing tools, and text-to-video functionality, enabling personalized AI-driven experiences.

• Critics warn of risks like political manipulation, low-quality content, and diminished platform relatability due to the absence of human authenticity.

• Despite challenges, Meta remains committed, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg projecting long-term gains from its substantial AI investments.

LG

LG Unveils AI-Powered Gram Laptops at CES 2025

The Gist: LG’s 2025 Gram laptops bring on-device AI features with Gram AI, offering innovative tools like offline chat and a "Time Travel" function to revisit past content. These models promise a blend of cutting-edge technology and enhanced user productivity.

Key Details:

• Gram AI includes offline Gram Chat and the "Time Travel" feature for revisiting documents, web pages, and media.

• A subscription-based "Gram Chat Cloud" offers advanced AI services powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o, free for the first year.

• The 2025 Gram lineup features four models with high-performance Intel Core Ultra processors, NVIDIA or Intel GPUs, and up to 32GB RAM.

• Select models include Microsoft’s exclusive AI features through Copilot Plus for enhanced integration.

Quick Gist

MIT unveiled Boltz-1, an open-source AI model to predict protein structures, designed to accelerate drug discovery and foster global research collaboration (Read More).

Encode, with backing from Geoffrey Hinton, supports Elon Musk's legal efforts to block OpenAI's transition to a for-profit model, citing risks to public safety and governance (Read More).

NVIDIA invested $1 billion in 50 startups and acquired AI firms, significantly strengthening its market position amid growing GPU demand (Read More).

The European Commission approved NVIDIA's Run:ai acquisition, enabling the company to open-source its software and expand AI infrastructure offerings (Read More).

Samsung plans to solidify its leadership in AI devices by 2025 with investments in super-gap technologies and innovative business models (Read More).

Alibaba slashed the price of its visual language AI model Qwen-VL by 85% to stay competitive in China's expanding AI market (Read More).

Russia is enhancing AI collaboration with China and BRICS nations, aiming for economic growth and workforce training by 2030 to challenge US dominance (Read More).

THAT’S IT FOR TODAY!