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Google took a "fake it till you make it" with Gemini

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Ts Yotov
December 08, 2023

📰 No-Noise News 📰

👨‍🎨 Google took a "fake it till you make it" approach to demonstrating Gemini's multimodal capabilities. A demo video showcased impressive voice interaction and real-time visual response, but it was later revealed that the video used still images and targeted text prompts rather than real-time interactions. This has led to internal criticism and concern among Google employees. Despite the controversy, Google insists that the user input and output shown is real, though not based on speech and not in real-time.

🔎 Microsoft and OpenAI's closer relationship is being investigated by the UK regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), to determine if it constitutes a "relevant merger situation". The CMA has issued an "Invitation to Comment" to both companies and interested parties to provide feedback. US FCA are following similar steps.

📒 Google has launched NotebookLM, an AI-powered notebook that is designed to help users understand and synthesize complex text. Users can save NotebookLM responses, excerpts from sources, and any notes they've written in a Noteboard feature. The notebook also offers tools to summarize text, refine writing, and suggest related ideas. NotebookLM is now available in the US and is powered by Gemini Pro.

💸 Stability AI is transitioning from an open-source business model to a subscription model for enterprise customers. The move is an attempt to generate more revenue and address issues with customer service and sluggishness in releasing new features. The company has also explored other revenue streams, such as reselling cloud computing resources.

🚗 Tesla's Dojo supercomputer project lead, Ganesh Venkataramanan, has left the company, which is a setback for Tesla's self-driving technology development efforts. Peter Bannon, a former executive at Apple, has taken over the project. This departure may hinder Tesla's progress in autonomous driving technology.

🎤 IBM CEO, Arvind Krishna, explains the company's strategy to make a comeback in the AI industry. They have reintroduced the Watson brand and launched the WatsonX development studio to monetize AI products for businesses. IBM faces tough competition from other big tech companies like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. Krishna acknowledges that IBM was slow to monetize its AI products but believes the pivot in strategy will help them regain ground.

📚 Nerd section 📚

🗣️ Clone your voice using open-source models: Realistic Voice Cloning (RVC) is a voice-to-voice model that can transform any input voice into a target voice. With the help of Replicate, you can create your own RVC voice model by creating a training dataset, tuning the model, and running inference.

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