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In today’s edition:

• Meta Unveils Movie Gen: The Future of AI-Generated Video

• Apple Intelligence Unveils Exciting New Features

• Nvidia Unleashes Next-Gen Open-Source AI Model

• DeepMind and BioNTech Build AI Lab Assistants

• And more AI news….

Top Developments

Meta

Meta Unveils Movie Gen: The Future of AI-Generated Video

The Gist: Meta just introduced Movie Gen, an innovative AI model that creates stunning video and audio clips, showcasing its potential with some captivating examples. Although it’s not available yet, this tool promises to shake up how we think about video editing and creation.

Key Details:

• Movie Gen can generate 10-second high-def videos and make precise edits to existing clips, like changing what a character holds or altering their appearance.

• The model combines both video and sound generation, allowing for immersive audiovisual experiences.

• With a whopping 30 billion parameters for video and 13 billion for audio, Movie Gen claims to outperform existing AI video tools.

• Meta teased the possible integration of Movie Gen into popular platforms like Facebook and Instagram, hinting at an exciting future for social media content creation.

Apple Intelligence

Apple Intelligence Unveils Exciting New Features in iOS 18.1

The Gist: Apple is launching its new AI-powered features with the iOS 18.1 update on October 28, making it easier for users to enhance their writing and manage apps more efficiently. This marks the start of an exciting journey into advanced technology for iPhone users.

Key Details:

• The update includes improved writing tools for rewriting and summarizing text, along with a refreshed Siri interface.

• Users will enjoy notification summaries for messages and emails, plus a new “Clean Up” feature in the Photos app to optimize images.

• More advanced AI features will arrive with iOS 18.2 in December, including support for ChatGPT and tools for creative visuals.

• The Apple Intelligence system is also expected to expand to the upcoming iPhone SE, broadening accessibility for users.

Nvidia

Nvidia Unleashes Next-Gen Open-Source AI Model

The Gist: Nvidia has launched NVLM 1.0, its powerful open-source AI model with the flagship NVLM-D-72B, boasting an impressive 72 billion parameters. This model excels in understanding visuals, memes, and complex math, outshining many competitors in performance and accuracy.

Key Details:

• NVLM-D-72B shows significant improvements over existing models, providing better accuracy in text-based tasks by an average of 4.3 points.

• The model is designed for various applications, including interpreting data from charts, analyzing images, and solving complicated equations.

• Though it's open-source, Nvidia has placed restrictions on commercial use to ensure its responsible deployment for research only.

• The availability of NVLM's model weights on Hugging Face fosters collaboration and innovation within the AI community.

Quick Gist

Google DeepMind and BioNTech are collaborating to develop specialized AI lab assistants that enhance experimental planning and automate tasks in scientific research (Read More).

Google Photos launched its new AI-powered "Ask Photos" feature, enabling users to find and organize images using natural language queries for improved memory discovery (Read More).

Tim Brooks, co-leader of OpenAI's video generation model Sora, has left the company to join Google DeepMind, coinciding with several high-profile exits from OpenAI amid ongoing controversies (Read More).

Google is rolling out ads for its AI-generated search summaries, called AI Overviews, to enhance revenue from its AI technology while addressing initial inaccuracies and user concerns (Read More).

Google announced the production-ready release of its Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B AI model, offering a faster, cheaper alternative with improved performance and lower latency for developers (Read More).

THAT’S IT FOR TODAY!