IBM VP David Cox warns that while language models appear intelligent, they lack true understanding, and the real risks of current AI systems are being overlooked amidst the hype around artificial general intelligence (AGI).
OpenAI develops X-like social network prototype centered on AI image generation, with CEO Sam Altman seeking external feedback on the platform that would directly compete with Elon Musk and Meta while providing valuable real-time data for training AI models.
Anthropic's AI assistant Claude gains autonomous research capabilities to provide comprehensive answers rapidly, and integrates with Google Workspace for secure data access, promising enhanced productivity through intelligent analysis of users' emails, calendars, and documents.
Apple is pioneering private AI by leveraging synthetic data and differential privacy to analyze user data securely, generating artificial datasets mimicking real data to enhance AI models for features like Genmoji, Image Playground, and email summaries while preserving privacy.
Meta plans to utilize public content and user interactions from EU users to train its AI models for better local language and cultural understanding, while offering an opt-out option to comply with regulations and enhance transparency.
Researchers developed a multimodal AI tool that combines language models and graph-based models to efficiently design new molecules with desired properties from natural language queries, outperforming existing methods and potentially automating the entire molecule design and synthesis process.
Meta's open-source Maverick AI trails rivals like GPT-4 and Claude on chat benchmarks, but the company hopes developers will customize the model for diverse applications, leveraging its conversational capabilities.
BrowseComp, a novel AI benchmark, evaluates web browsing skills by posing 1,266 complex queries requiring synthesis of information across multiple websites, with a deep research model achieving 51.5% accuracy, surpassing other models' performance on this challenging task.
Anthropic's new Max plan unlocks higher usage limits, priority access to new features and models, and enhanced capabilities for frequent Claude users who require extended conversations, complex data handling, and heavy reliance on the AI assistant throughout their day.
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.