Your guide to AI: February 2024 — from nathanbenaich.substack.com by Nathan Benaich & Alex Chalmers
Areas covered include:
- Policy
- The (geo)politics of AI
- Hardware
- Big tech start-ups
- Research
- Startups
- Exits
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Text-to-Video with Google’s Lumiere
Introducing Lumiere ??
The new video diffusion model we’ve been working on @GoogleAI
* Text-to-Video
* Image-to-Video
* Stylized Generation
* Inpainting
* Cinemagraphs
and more ?W/ amazing team incl. @hila_chefer @omer_tov @InbarMosseri @talidekel @DeqingSun @oliver_wang2 pic.twitter.com/jEQcFo26Gm
— Omer Bar Tal (@omerbartal) January 24, 2024
Amazon announces Rufus, a new generative AI-powered conversational shopping experience — from aboutamazon.com by Rajiv Mehta
Rufus is an expert shopping assistant trained on Amazon’s product catalog and information from across the web to answer customer questions on shopping needs, products, and comparisons, make recommendations based on this context, and facilitate product discovery in the same Amazon shopping experience customers use regularly.
Launching [2/1/24] in beta to a small subset of customers in Amazon’s mobile app, Rufus will progressively roll out to additional U.S. customers in the coming weeks.