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Biggest AI Announcements of 2024
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Crispy Bites: 2024 has been a monumental year for AI, marked by major updates in AI models, consumer products, and research. Here's a recap of key AI announcements from Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, xAI, NVIDIA, and more!
Key Insights:
Copilot + PC: Microsoft and Surface introduced the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever. With AI-accelerated Copilot+ experiences and features built to keep you on the go, Surface Pro 11th Edition, a Copilot+ PC is a laptop, reimagined.
Whisk: This AI lets you input or create images that convey the subject, scene and style you have in mind. Then, you can bring them together and remix them to create something uniquely your own, from a digital plushie to an enamel pin or sticker. Try out Whisk here: Link
AI-Powered Editing in Google Photos: Reimagine your photos and apply complex edits directly from your phone. Use the latest tools like Magic Editor, Photo Unblur, Magic Eraser, and more.
Note: Some features are exclusive to Google One members and all Pixel owners.
Galaxy AI: Samsung launched Galaxy AI at the Galaxy Unpacked event in Paris.
Galaxy AI features include Circle to Search, Health tracking, Real-time Translation, Generative Edit and much more! Read here: Link
Sora: Generate high-quality videos in seconds from just text, image or video. Sora offers advanced editing tools such as remix, blend, recut, storyboard, loop, and apply presets to videos. Learn how to use Sora here: Tutorial
Veo 2 and Imagen 3:
Google’s state-of-the-art video and image generation models, Veo 2 and Imagen 3, bring unparalleled quality to media creation. Learn how to access these: Here
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NVIDIA's Tiny Supercomputer: NVIDIA has introduced the Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, a compact generative AI supercomputer that fits in the palm of your hand. The device is designed to be accessible to a broad audience including developers, hobbyists, and students, with the ability to run complex AI models like Llama 3.1 8B on low power.
Willow Chip:Google’s Willow chip performed a computation in under five minutes that would take supercomputers over 10^24 years. It also achieved a breakthrough in exponentially reducing errors, solving a 30-year-old challenge in quantum computing.
Meta unveils Llama 3.1: Llama 3.1 is an open-source AI model with 405 billion parameters, making it the largest open-source AI system ever. It can perform tasks like coding, answering math questions, and summarizing documents. It's available on Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud platforms, and is used on WhatsApp and Meta.ai for U.S.-based users.
Meta's multimodal Ray-Ban glasses: These glasses can play music, take photos, translate languages, and send voice messages on WhatsApp. Prices start at $299 USD.
Gemini 2.0 - AI model for the agentic era
With new advances in multimodality — like native image and audio output — and native tool use, it will enable us to build new AI agents that bring us closer to our vision of a universal assistant.
Try Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental here: Link
Project Astra: Ultimate AI assistant by Google that sees and hears in real-time and even can act on your behalf.
Apple Intelligence: Available on iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1. It's free for all users with supported devices. Apple Intelligence includes features like Summarizing notifications, mail, and message, Removing distracting objects from images, Improving Siri's capabilities and more!
Claude 3.5 Sonnet by Anthropic introduces several new features, including A context window of 200,000 tokens, Multimodal capabilities for text and vision, A feature allowing interaction with a computer's GUI
OpenAI's Advanced Voice Mode: You can now chat with ChatGPT over video and voice in real time. Perfect for step-by-step tutorials, learning, or dynamic Q&A sessions.
2024 was a transformative year in AI, showcasing leaps in technology that redefined possibilities across devices, creative tools, and research. From compact supercomputers to smarter photo editing and groundbreaking quantum breakthroughs, these innovations reflect an industry at its peak of creativity and utility. The future looks promising as AI continues to become an integral part of our daily lives.
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Superhero Tools (December 2024)
Sora: Generate videos from text, image or video (Link)
Whisk: Visualize and remix ideas using images and AI (Link)
Grok 2.0: Free image generation on Twitter (Link)
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