Microsoft Rolling Out AI-Powered Bing Generative Search, Could Rival Google’s AI Overviews

Microsoft Rolling Out AI-Powered Bing Generative Search, Could Rival Google’s AI Overviews

Microsoft added a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature to its Bing search engine on Wednesday. Dubbed Bing generative search, the feature shows a snapshot with the information for the searched query. The feature is similar to Google’s AI Overviews which was publicly released in the US in May. Bing’s AI-powered…

Mistral Large 2 Open Source AI Model Released, Said to Be on Par With Meta Llama 3.1 405B

Mistral Large 2 Open Source AI Model Released, Said to Be on Par With Meta Llama 3.1 405B

Mistral released the new generation of its flagship open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model, Mistral Large 2, on Wednesday. The company claims the AI model offers significantly improved capabilities in code generation, mathematics, and reasoning. It also gets support for several new languages as well as advanced function calling capabilities. It…

Activision Sold AI-Generated Call of Duty Cosmetic, Approved AI Use That Led to Layoffs: Report

Activision Sold AI-Generated Call of Duty Cosmetic, Approved AI Use That Led to Layoffs: Report

Activision reportedly utilised generative artificial intelligence (AI) to create an in-game cosmetic for its latest Call of Duty title and made it available for purchase in late 2023. The Call of Duty maker is said to have approved the use of generative AI tools like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion to…

WhatsApp to Get a Major Meta AI Upgrade With Imagine Edit, Llama 3.1 405B Model and More

WhatsApp to Get a Major Meta AI Upgrade With Imagine Edit, Llama 3.1 405B Model and More

WhatsApp is set for a major artificial intelligence (AI) upgrade as the Meta AI integrated within the app is getting several new features. The Meta-owned instant messaging platform announced on Tuesday that it will be rolling out new image-generation features and multilingual support for the app’s AI assistant. These features…

Meta Llama 3.1 405B Released as Company’s Largest Open Source AI Model to Date, Beats OpenAI’s GPT-4o

Meta Llama 3.1 405B Released as Company’s Largest Open Source AI Model to Date, Beats OpenAI’s GPT-4o

Meta on Tuesday released its latest and largest artificial intelligence (AI) model to the public. Called Meta Llama 3.1 405B, the company says the open-source model outperforms major closed AI models such as GPT-4, GPT-4o, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet across several benchmarks. The previously released Llama 3 8B and 70B AI…

New Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses Outsell Previous Version, Says Essilux CEO

New Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses Outsell Previous Version, Says Essilux CEO

Meta Platforms and EssilorLuxottica’s new generation of smart glasses have sold more in a few months than the old ones did in two years, EssilorLuxottica’s Chief Executive said on Tuesday. The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses went on the market last October, allowing users to livestream directly from the glasses to…

Gemini AI to Get US Broadcast Coverage at Olympics 2024 as Google Signs Deals With Team USA, NBCUniversal

Gemini AI to Get US Broadcast Coverage at Olympics 2024 as Google Signs Deals With Team USA, NBCUniversal

Gemini AI will be all over the US broadcast coverage during the Olympics 2024. Google has signed a deal with Team USA and NBCUniversal to become the official “Search AI Partner” of Team USA. Since NBCUniversal will be broadcasting the event in the US, Google will showcase its AI services…

OpenAI GPT-4o Mini Launched As the Company’s Most Cost-Effective Small AI Model

OpenAI GPT-4o Mini Launched As the Company’s Most Cost-Effective Small AI Model

OpenAI released its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model, GPT-4o Mini, on Thursday. It is a small AI model, and the company says it is its most cost-effective model to date. While the ChatGPT maker did not specify the parameter size of the model, it highlighted that it was on par…

Gemini AI Assistant Can Now Answer Questions, Perform Tasks Even When Android Device Is Locked

Gemini AI Assistant Can Now Answer Questions, Perform Tasks Even When Android Device Is Locked

Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) assistant on Android is getting a new upgrade and users will now be able to access it and get it to perform certain tasks even when the device is locked. While the AI-powered virtual assistant was able to respond on the lock screen earlier, completing any…