Greetings, it’s Paul here. This week, the AI world has been brimming with exciting happenings. With two major conferences unfolding simultaneously - the annual SIGGRAPH conference and the AI Four conference in Las Vegas, there were quite a few striking revelations. Let’s dive into the highlights.
At SIGGRAPH, which spans the latest advancements and research in computer graphics, AI played a significant role. Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, unveiled a plethora of announcements in his keynote presentation. NVIDIA introduced their next-gen GH200 Grace Hopper superchip, designed to handle the world’s most intricate generative AI workloads. Also launched was NVIDIA AI Workbench, a toolset simplifying model training with an easy-to-use interface.
In another exciting reveal, NVIDIA announced their collaboration with Hugging Face to provide Hugging Face developers access to NVIDIA’s DGX cloud along with their AI supercomputers. And to top it all off, NVIDIA introduced new Omniverse cloud APIs and a large language model called Chat USD.
Meanwhile, at the AI Four conference in Las Vegas, discussions centered around responsible AI, consumer-level AI for movies, and the organization of businesses for AI. The event also highlighted the need for more women in AI leadership roles.
This week, we also saw Amazon reportedly testing generative AI tools for sellers. This could enable sellers to input a brief description of their product and let Amazon’s AI generate a more detailed and engaging description to boost sales.
On the ethical front, Zoom clarified its position on data usage following concerns over its terms of service update. Despite allowing data usage for improvements in services, Zoom reassured users that they would not use audio, video, or chat content to train artificial models without user consent.
In other news, Leonardo AI launched an iOS app for AI art generation. Wire Stock released a Discord bot simplifying image uploading to stock photo sites. They also introduced 24-hour challenges to generate and submit AI-created images based on a theme.
OpenAI made headlines with the launch of a web crawler called GPTbot. Designed to continuously update GPT-5 with new data, this will allow the language model to stay current with the latest information available on the internet.
Lastly, Enthropic revealed an improved version of its entry-level LLM - Clod 2. This new iteration offers gains in areas like coding, math, reasoning, and safety.
To wrap it up, there’s a lot happening in the realm of AI - from major conferences to platform updates and ethical discussions. As we continue to navigate and shape this landscape, let’s remember that each development contributes to our collective knowledge and enhances our capabilities.