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Global AI Weekly

Sora: Creating video from text and Google's newly updated AI model that hopes to challenge OpenAI

Published Tuesday, February 20, 2024

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Sora: Creating video from text
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Sora: Creating video from text

Research LeadsBill Peebles & Tim BrooksSystems LeadConnor Holmes Contributors Clarence Wing Yin Ng David Schnurr Eric Luhman Joe Taylor Li Jing Natalie Summers Ricky Wang Rohan Sahai Ryan O’Rourke…

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Video

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Jeroen Niesen - Humans in AI
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Jeroen Niesen - Humans in AI

Join us in this episode of "Humans in AI" as Jeroen Niesen, who leads research and development for cybersecurity at Wortell, shares his insights on how AI is changing the world. Jeroen takes us through his journey in AI, highlighting how it's making tasks that were once incredibly complex, a lot easier today. In his role, Jeroen is responsible for both the technical and commercial aspects of Wortell's cybersecurity offerings.

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Articles

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This German nonprofit is building an open voice assistant that anyone can use
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This German nonprofit is building an open voice assistant that anyone can use

There’s been many attempts at open source AI-powered voice assistants (see Rhasspy, Mycroft and Jasper, to name a few) — all established with the goal of creating privacy-preserving, offline experiences that don’t compromise on functionality. But development’s proven to be extraordinarily slow. That’s because, in addition to all the usual challenges attendant with open source.

Research Focus: Week of February 5, 2024
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Research Focus: Week of February 5, 2024

Research Focus: New Research Forum series explores bold ideas in the era of AI; LASER improves reasoning in language models; Cache-Efficient Top-k Aggregation over High Cardinality Large Datasets; Six Microsoft researchers named 2023 ACM Fellows.

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Upcoming Events

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Global AI Bootcamp 2024 | March 2024
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Global AI Bootcamp 2024 | March 2024

The Global AI Bootcamp is an annual event that occurs worldwide, where developers and AI enthusiasts can learn about AI through workshops, sessions, and discussions. Local chapters of the Global AI Community host the events in various locations across the globe. This year, the bootcamp will take place in the full month of March 2024. Find a bootcamp

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