Tag: AI
Amazon starts testing ads in its Rufus chatbot
Rufus, Amazon’s recently launched, shopping-focused chatbot, is getting ads soon.
That’s according to a changelog published by Amazon this week (first spotted by AdWeek),...
This Week in AI: OpenAI’s new Strawberry model may be smart, yet sluggish
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Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model
French AI startup Mistral has released its first model that can process images as well as text.
Called Pixtral 12B, the 12-billion-parameter model...
Sergey Brin says he’s working on AI at Google ‘pretty much every day’
Google co-founder and ex-Alphabet president Sergey Brin said he’s back working at Google “pretty much every day” because he hasn’t seen anything as...
Apple upgrades watchOS with AI-powered features, including translation
Apple’s watchOS is getting a few AI-powered upgrades, the company revealed at its Apple Event 2024 on Monday. Most were revealed at the...
Audible recruits voice actors to train audiobook-generating AI
Audible, Amazon’s audiobook business, on Monday announced that it’ll use AI trained on professional narrators’ voices to generate new audiobook recordings.
A select, U.S.-based...