Open AI gets sued by eight more media companies. A few weeks ago, the New York Times revealed that many technology companies are bypassing firewalls and intentionally violating copyright laws when developing AI. On Tuesday, eight daily newspapers owned by Alden Global Capital, the second-largest newspaper chain in the United States, including the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune, sued OpenAI and Microsoft. Adlen said the chatbot regularly displayed the full text of articles behind a subscription paywall. It could take more than five years for these claims to be upheld in court. Open AI has some strong arguments, especially fair use and public goods, but even if it is sanctioned, it will easily pay billions of dollars in fines, more than any other company in history. I could afford it. Because of this, some publishers, such as Le Monde and Alex Springer, have chosen to contract with OpenAI instead.
Introducing Sora's extraordinary new rival, Vidu from China. Developed by Tsinghua University and Chinese AI company ShengShu Technology, Vidu is China's first text-to-video generator. It has the ability to generate videos up to 16 seconds long. Since the LLM model was developed in China, it has a China-first worldview. It's unclear when and how it will be available to users in Western countries.
Chat Remember GPT Now. This feature makes ChatGPT a more useful assistant because it can remember details across multiple interactions, like your daughter's obsession with Minnie Mouse or the PowerPoint presentations you need to upload every time you ask a question. ChatGPT Plus users now have access to memory features. To save your details, you can tell ChatGPT to “Remember this…” You can also tell ChatGPT to retrieve stored memory. You have complete control over the information stored. You can enable, reset, or remove specific memory or all memory as needed.
Rabbit R1 “I can hardly review it” Marquez Brownlee said in the brutal YouTube takedown above. The release of his The Rabbit R1, which created a lot of buzz at his CES in January, was met with controversy and harsh reviews. The company has sold more than 100,000 copies of its $199 version 1 of its just-shipped portable all-in-one AI assistant. The device was supposed to be a competitor to smartphones, running all apps in the cloud.Mishal Rahman Android permissions We recreated the R1 experience on an Android smartphone and concluded that it should be an app. Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu said the Rabbit R1 requires custom firmware and more complex integration with cloud services that other devices can't fully replicate. Widespread criticism of R1 focuses on its limited functionality. Few people will (or should) leave their smartphones behind. Who needs a second device? My phone already has a lot of AI apps.
Paul Trillo's new Sola-produced band Washed Out music video, the most difficult partis the first commercial music video created using OpenAI's Sora. The filmmakers said it took 700 generations to create the 55 selected clips. “This was an idea I had nearly 10 years before him, but then it was abandoned,” Trillo says. “Thanks to Sola, we were finally able to bring it to life.” Trillo also created this amazing vision for the future of TED conferences to open his AI Day at the show.
Film director Jordan Ray Allen describes himself as an “eclectic artist and retro enthusiast.” He is a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino, and with the great director retiring after his 10th film, Allen decided to pay homage by reimagining the character of Jules for the film. pulp fiction. “I wanted to know about a retired hitman who left everything and walked the earth in search of salvation,” Allen said. “It's really Kung Fu meets the Book of Eli.” Tools used (partial list): Images and animation Runway (Gen 2), voiceover in Play HT (1.0), DaVinci Resolve to give it a cinematic aesthetic.
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