Innovation Profs - 10/22/2024

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Innovation Profs
October 24, 2024

Generative AI News

Penguin Random House is adding an AI warning to its books’ copyright pages

Penguin Random House is adding to the copyright pages of its books verbiage that explicitly prohibits the use of their content to train AI models: “No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems.” This is the first such move to protect copyrighted material from being used to train large language models.

Anthropic just announced major Claude AI update — here’s everything that’s new

New updates to Claude: The ability to search previous chats. More custom features, including custom instructions to tailor one’s prompts based on specific background information (à la ChatGPT’s Custom Instructions). Finally, a Claude iPad app to complement the Claude web platform and Claude mobile app. Next up: Claude 3.5 Haiku, a lightweight model that should be dropping soon.

Nvidia just dropped a new AI model that crushes OpenAI’s GPT-4—no big launch, just big results

To date, Nvidia has played a central role in the current wave of AI developments, dominating the GPU market. Now Nvidia has thrown its hat into the LLM ring with the release of its own language model, unfortunately named “Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct.” Despite the lack of a punchy name, this open source model should not be underestimated, as it has outperformed both GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on a number of benchmark tests. “Nvidia’s strategy seems clear: it’s positioning itself as a full-service AI provider, combining its hardware expertise with accessible, high-performance software. This move could reshape the industry, pushing rivals to innovate faster and potentially sparking more open-source collaboration across the field.”

Quick Hits

Stable Diffusion 3.5 follows your prompts more closely and generates more diverse people

The open-source AI image generator Stable Diffusion has been updated to version 3.5. It addresses previous issues, improves performance with prompts and offers a greater skin tone and feature diversity.

www.engadget.com/ai/stable-diffusion-35-follows-your-prompts-more-closely-and-generates-more-diverse-people-184022965.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJslkK5iliqMHxKUkoXvG9wWWZqyh03l_-XSYXjAOF7uuFOxbCdKRufEQfBQqT3wz9KwAhWokkUBU7G9Fmc_s33KV4YFnmhtqaXtIOF2wMmwX5uDQ1Ty2h3pAnWRAi26DNAo4FQmAaMzizaEQDdsmE2KhWzLzrqT43ymYH6mW_JA

Meta Introduces Spirit LM open source model that combines text and speech inputs/outputs

Spirit LM Expressive incorporates emotional cues into its speech generation and can detect and reflect anger, surprise, or joy.

venturebeat.com/ai/meta-introduces-spirit-lm-open-source-model-that-combines-text-and-speech-inputs-outputs

Perplexity AI in funding talks to more than double valuation to $8 billion, WSJ reports

Jeff Bezos-backed Perplexity AI has begun fundraising talks in which it is looking to more than double its valuation to $8 billion or more, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/perplexity-ai-funding-talks-more-than-double-valuation-8-bln-wsj-reports-2024-10-20

The era of AI agents is just getting started

While some are eager to declare the era of autonomous agents upon us, the reality is a bit more complicated — and that's probably a good thing.

www.axios.com/2024/10/21/ai-agents-microsoft-salesforce-sierra

Adobe's Project Concept AI is a secret game-changer, and here's why

Alexandru Costin reveals why it's more impressive than you'd imagine.

www.creativebloq.com/ai/adobes-project-concept-ai-is-a-secret-game-changer-and-heres-why

Tool of the week: Midjourney editor

AI image creation tool Midjourney (one of our favorites) is planning to release a tool for editing images using AI - and not just images created using AI. The tool is expected this week and will allow users to edit images through text prompts. This is a bit controversial as social platforms wrestle with how to label images that were edited (but not created) using AI.

AI-generated image of the week

Halloween is around the corner, so we’ve been spending time making coloring sheets for the kids. Our go-to tool for coloring sheets is Stable Diffusion. You can choose the “line art” option to get simple coloring pages. And you get free credits daily.

Prompt: simple kids coloring page of a cartoonish halloween skeleton

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Generative AI music site Suno is teaming up with Timbaland. The singer's new single, “Love Again,” will be available exclusively on Suno ahead of its official release on major streaming platforms.

Users will have a chance to remix and reimagine the track—and compete for over $100K in cash prizes.