Elon Musk's AI venture xAI enters the market with the launch of Grok 3 API, offering a large language model and a smaller version at competitive pricing, though with a reduced context window.
Google aims to merge its AI models Gemini and Veo, combining Gemini's multimodal capabilities with Veo's understanding of real-world physics learned from YouTube data, to create an enhanced universal digital assistant with improved physical world comprehension.
Google's Firebase Studio, an AI-powered cloud platform, promises rapid app development with features like app prototyping, coding assistance, AI-powered testing, Firebase service integration, and flexible deployment options, along with updates to Firebase tools for AI, data, and web app deployment.
AI agents' energy usage varies based on model size, modality, and output length, necessitating a balance between performance and sustainability through efficient model selection, open-source frameworks, and task-appropriate approaches.
Multiverse Computing's CompactifAI technology shrinks Llama AI models by 80%, boosting efficiency with 60% fewer parameters, 84% greater energy efficiency, 40% faster inference, and 50% cost reduction, enabling new use cases for portable AI.
Major tech giants like YouTube and OpenAI are backing a bipartisan bill reintroduced in Congress, the NO FAKES Act, which aims to create new federal IP rights to protect against unauthorized AI deepfakes of people's voices and likenesses, aligning artists and tech on AI issues.
IBM has launched the z17 mainframe, engineered specifically for AI and generative AI workloads, featuring high-capacity Telum II processors, compatibility with IBM's Spyre accelerator chips, and new performance management and operating system tools.
CompactifAI unveils LLaMA 3.3 70B Slim, a compressed AI model 80% smaller, 2.18x faster, with near-perfect accuracy, enabling edge deployment, lower energy consumption, and secure enterprise AI solutions while maintaining industry-leading performance.
The bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN Act, aimed at criminalizing non-consensual intimate imagery and deepfakes, cleared a House committee, gaining widespread support for requiring websites to swiftly remove such content and addressing the growing threat of AI-generated exploitation.
A pioneering nonprofit, Sage Future, has deployed AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic into a virtual realm, where they ingeniously raised funds for Helen Keller International's mission of providing vitamin A supplements to children, showcasing the potential and limitations of AI in charitable endeavors.