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Apple announced at WWDC 2024 that it is integrating ChatGPT into a variety of native experiences on iOS devices. It plans to eventually expand to use voice and other capabilities.

Apple has unveiled its "Apple Intelligence" AI suite, which has features like a conversational Siri, AI-generated "Genmoji," and GPT-4o integration for complex requests. The capabilities will be exclusive to newer iPhones, iPads, and Macs. They will roll out in English with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia this fall. Apple has emphasized privacy with on-device processing and "Private Cloud Compute" for off-device tasks and allowed independent privacy verification.

The team at Snap Research was able to reduce the size of the Stable Diffusion UNet model from 1.72 GB down to 219MB while increasing performance with their new quantization scheme. The quantization method is somewhat complex, but paints a strong path forward in running generative models on consumer hardware.

Apple introduced "Apple Intelligence" at WWDC 2024. Apple Intelligence is an AI system integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia that features advanced generative models for various everyday tasks like text refinement, notification summarization, and image creation. Emphasizing responsible AI development and user privacy, this system combines on-device and cloud capabilities to enhance user experiences across Apple products.

The Gboard team has outlined how they use SFT on a PaLM2-XS model to fix sentence and paragraph-level errors in written text on device. They found dramatic improvements and usage due to latency optimizations.

A Jupyter Notebook that combines the experience of OpenAI's code interpreter with the familiar development environment of a Python notebook.

OVMR is a new method that enhances open-vocabulary recognition by combining textual descriptions and exemplar images.

The Predictive Dynamic Fusion (PDF) framework enhances multimodal learning by addressing reliability and stability issues.

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Asana has introduced "AI teammates" to handle tasks like triaging requests and organizing project details proactively, aiming to improve efficiency and output quality. This new feature, demonstrated at Asana's Work Innovation Summit, is integrated into the workflow, acting like a human team member but remaining under human supervision.

AI image generation has progressed from creating images based on text descriptions since 2022. Using a child's game analogy, this article explains how these models refine noisy inputs to produce detailed and specific images, showcasing the rapid advancements and potential of AI in visual creativity.

Researchers have introduced a new framework that integrates active stereo principles into standard passive cameras without using a physical pattern projector.

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DIRECT-3D is a new diffusion-based 3D generative model that creates high-quality 3D assets from text prompts.