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Google announced many new features, including Gemini Flash, Veo video generation, Imagen 3, and its newest assistant, Project Astra, at I/O 2024. In all, there are an impressive number of improvements, including 2m token context length, dramatically cheaper models, and improved multimodality.

Anthropic has expanded its AI assistant, Claude, to Europe. Claude supports multiple languages. Anthropic is offering the service across its website, iOS app, and business plans for teams. The company is beginning the process of raising more money.

Researchers investigated the Mamba architecture, typically used for tasks with long-sequence and autoregressive characteristics, and its application in vision tasks, and found that while Mamba is not effective for image classification, it shows promise in detection and segmentation tasks that do.

A new state-space model using a dual transfer function representation has been developed for deep learning. It features a state-free sequence parallel inference algorithm.

ESDNet is a Spiking Neural Network (SNN) designed for image deraining tasks. It capitalizes on the unique properties of rain pixel values to enhance spike signal intensity.

Genkit is a new toolset for Firebase for building and deploying generative products. It can be used to launch servers for open source language models.

Get relevant search results including billions of webpages — high-quality, real-time data you can build on. Brave is the fastest-growing search engine since Bing, and one of the only truly independent search providers. And it wins on price — with paid plans that start at a $5 CPM and a generous free tier. Get your API key ↗️

Google released and teased a few open source models in its launch today. One actually-released model is a vision language model based on SigLIP. It is extremely easy to tune and extend to a variety of tasks. This Colab Notebook shows how to do so with clean, readable code.

GPT-4o multimodal abilities, integrating vision and voice, promise significant advances in how AI interacts with the world, paving the way for AI to become a more ubiquitous presence in daily life.

Gemini Flash is a new lightweight model from Google that features multimodal reasoning and a long context window of up to one million tokens.

Veo is a new video generation AI model from Google Deepmind that can generate 1080p resolution videos that can go beyond a minute long.

Elon Musk's AI startup xAI is negotiating a potential $10 billion deal to rent cloud servers from Oracle, aiming to become one of Oracle's largest customers and rival AI offerings from OpenAI and Google.