Today at 10:30 AM, drop by the #ICCV2023 Google booth to see a demo of the new magic eraser on the Pixel 8 Pro that uses generative AI to enable improved inpainting and better suggestions that properly remove shadows and attached objects. Learn more at:
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UK Regulator Refers Cloud Industry Probe to CMA
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This is big. Ofcom, the media watchdog, has referred its probe into the UK cloud industry to the CMA. This means that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, the market leaders, will face much tougher scrutiny.
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Internet Bundling Cycle: From Web to Apps to AI
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The whole world was bundled into the early internet, unbundled into apps, and is now being rebundled into AIs
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Nvidia’s AI Supremacy: Why It Won’t Last
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Why Nvidia’s AI Supremacy is Only Temporary https://
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Amazon’s Project Nessie Algorithm Faces FTC Antitrust Allegations
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“People familiar with the FTC's allegations in the complaint told the Journal that it all started when Amazon developed an algorithm code-named "Project Nessie." It allegedly works by manipulating rivals' weaker pricing algorithms and locking competitors into higher prices”
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Perplexity Launches pplx-api LLM Platform with Mistral Llama2
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Introducing pplx-api, our LLM API which serves Mistral and Llama2 models with blazing speed and throughput. pplx-api is in public beta for our Pro subscribers! We partnered with @nvidia and @awscloud to build our proprietary inference. Learn more: https://
pplx.ai/introducing-pp
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OpenAI Python SDK 1.0 Release: Beta Testing Now Available
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Exciting news for @OpenAI devs: we are close to a 1.0 release of the OpenAI Python SDK . You can test the beta version of 1.0 today, we would love to get your early feedback!
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Reaching 10k Citations: Reflections on Research Career
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I reached 10k citations recently, a goal of mine for many years. It’s a nice moment to reflect back, and I mostly feel bittersweet: (1) When I joined Google Brain back in 2020, I thought I'd stay for 10+ years, doing open-ended research and publishing papers. But the field has
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Meta launches GenAI tools for marketers: image backgrounds and ad variations
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Meta’s rolling out new #GenAI tools for marketers: A way to generate image backgrounds, vary text for ads and adjust image sizes for each format. Also worth mentioning other companies already offer similar GenAI tools, but could this help Meta cut out intermediaries?
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Google and Hugging Face showcase TPU v5e capabilities on Cloud
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This demo produced by @google and @huggingface to showcase the capabilities of TPU v5e on Google Cloud. I guess TPUs are still currently the only option apart from NVIDIA that are proven to work at scale. Blog post: