March 2023 » THE DEPT OF NEXT

Runway’s GEN-2 Really Is The Next Level of Generative AI

While text-to-image AI tools such as Midjourney and Dall-E advance and become more and more perfected, Runway's recently launched text-to-video AI tool, Gen-2, appears to be the logical progression in Gen-AI technology.

A.I. Business

What Is Hazy AI, And Why Are Big Banks Investing?

Hazy, a British synthetic data disruptor, has secured $9 million in a Series A funding round with participation from Nationwide Building Society,…

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ChatGPT Plugins: OpenAI Unveils Major Upgrade with Introduction of Plugin Store and Web Access

The retrieval plugin will allow users to upload their custom data and files to ChatGPT. While the plugin has been open-sourced for use by developers, it is only a matter of time before a user-friendly plugin is released. The plugin will allow users to plug their data, website, or database directly into ChatGPT. This development will make it easy for people to explore their own documents and knowledge bases with ChatGPT.

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Magic Design and More: Canva Announces New Suite Of Generative AI Tools

Design platform Canva is the latest popular tech app to embrace AI. At their Canva Creates even on Thursday, the Australian company announced a new suite of design tools, including a Text-to-Image and animation features and Magic Design, which builds a design from uploaded images.

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Google Bard: Excitement As Early Release Of New AI Language Model Rolls Out In U.S, U.K.

Google Bard: Tech giant Google has announced the public release of its generative AI chatbot, Bard, in a gradual rollout to users in the U.S. and U.K. starting Tuesday

A.I.

Do We Need An A.I. Assistant To Keep Up With A.I. Updates?

Last week was big for A.I. updates. Although...so was the prior week. And, well, the week before that, too. Ok, but... last week was BIG.

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Poe by Quora: Like Having A Roomful Of Experts Working Together For You

Poe by Quora - Quora's new AI chatbot app, Poe, enables users to ask questions and receive answers from a range of AI chatbots, essentially positioning itself as a menu of language-based models.

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Google Workspace AI: Powerful Productivity Tools Coming To Docs and Gmail

Google Workspace AI: Google has announced a suite of new generative AI features for Google Docs, Gmail, Slides and Sheets. The productivity suite - which currently uses AI tools such as Gmail's Smart Compose or Google Docs smart summaries - has a range of enhanced tools coming soon.

A.I. ChatGPT

OpenAI GPT-4: Watch The Announcement Live (Plus Everything We Know So Far)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=outcGtbnMuQ Greg Brockman, President and Co-Founder of OpenAI, will go live at 1 pm PT for a developer demo showcasing GPT-4 and…

Get ready to meet Claude. The new AI language model was created by Anthropic, a buzzy AI startup founded by former OpenAI employees. Google has invested strongly in Anthropic ($400M), while Microsoft of course opened windows to send $10B in cash to OpenAI. So there's some competition brewing. The early looks at Claude hover between mixed to favorable.

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Claude and Constitutional AI: How Anthropic’s New AI Model Differs From ChatGPT

Get ready to meet Claude. The new AI language model was created by Anthropic, a buzzy AI startup founded by former OpenAI employees. Google has invested strongly in Anthropic ($400M), while Microsoft of course opened windows to send $10B in cash to OpenAI. So there's some competition brewing. The early looks at Claude hover between mixed to favorable.