Items tagged with AI
OpenAI has unveiled a new way to search with its AI search engine, SearchGPT. Currently, the new AI search engine is only a prototype, and hopeful users will need to join a waitlist to gain access.
Google Search has been the go to choice for finding things on the internet for many for some time now. Part of the...
Read more...
There are a multitide of companies who have expended significant funds in an effort to get PC users excited about AI, but many people still think of AI products as something that is run exclusively in the cloud. Of course, that's completely incorrect; anyone with a reasonably recent discrete GPU can run many AI...
Read more...
Adobe has unleashed powerful new innovations in its Illustrator and Photoshop programs to help creatives unlock new design possibilities. The company touts the new innovations as being able to accelerate creative workflows, save time, and empower designers to realize their visions faster.
The last couple of months...
Read more...
All of the major chip makers are hitching their silicon wagons to the AI craze that's sweeping the industry, and to that end, AMD has introduced a new flagship entry as part of its Ryzen AI 300 series lineup (otherwise known as Strix Point). It's the Ryzen 9 HX 375 and it sits atop a short but growing stack of mobile...
Read more...
AMD is losing an industry veteran from its talented executive team next month. Effective August 30, 2024, AMD President Victor Peng is going into retirement, putting an end to an impressive career that spanned 40 years and included multiple stints at AMD, as well as ATI, the famed graphics company AMD acquired for...
Read more...
NVIDIA is currently working on a version of its most powerful Blackwell-based AI chip that will meet the export control requirements set by the US government, according to a report in Reuters. The company will be working with one of its Chinese partners to make this happen, and is currently referring to this potential...
Read more...
NVIDIA has ridden the current boom in AI to become one of the most valuable companies on planet Earth, as its AI specific hardware continues to sell like hot cakes. This is because companies in just about every sector are looking to leverage AI in some way. However, SK hynix CEO Chey Tae-Won offered some interesting...
Read more...
Google has teased its upcoming Pixel 9 Pro and also officially confirmed a new foldable Pixel is on the way. In true AI fashion, both the Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro Fold are being billed as phones “built for the Gemini era," with Gemini being the name of Google's family of mulimodal large language models...
Read more...
Tenstorrent's name might not have quite the same cache that NVIDIA's does when it comes to AI acceleration yet, but the company's unique approach has a lot of benefits. Between a royalty-free RISC-V processor ISA and highly scalable AI accelerator designs, the company promises it can lower the total cost of ownership...
Read more...
Hardware manufacturers are putting AI front and center, in the hopes that the new features will entice buyers into buying new gear or upgrading their current systems. Especially as the industry has faced a slowdown after the booming sales numbers brought on by COVID. However, a poll on TechPowerUp's forum shows that...
Read more...
The SIGGRAPH graphics conference, which takes place between July 28 and August 1, will be hosting two titans in the tech sector, with CEO of NVIDIA Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg participating in a public discussion on AI. This conversation won’t be limited to those in attendance either, as the event will...
Read more...
Officially, the only Copilot+ branded PCs on the market right now are Arm-based machines powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and Plus silicon. However, there will be another wave of Copilot+ PCs running on x86 chips from AMD and Intel. In the meantime, system builders readying machines based on the latest x86...
Read more...
This year’s Galaxy Unpacked event also brought several updates on the software front courtesy of Google, bringing several new features to Samsung’s latest hardware offerings. Google announced four new features coming to the Galaxy Z Flip6, Z Fold6, and updated Galaxy Watches that include Gemini, Circle to Search...
Read more...
The artificial intelligence (AI) arms race is reaching a fever pitch, bolstered by AMD signing a definitive agreement to acquire Silo AI, Europe's biggest private AI lab, in an all-cash deal valued at around $665 million. That's not chump change and we could see more big-dollar investments like this as companies look to add to their AI arsenal,
Read more...
The umbrella of generative AI includes a wide variety of tools that could feasibly make game development easier and faster. Besides using language models for code review and optimization, there are also ways to use language models for generating NPC dialogue, whether beforehand or in real-time, like with NVIDIA's ACE...
Read more...
A new leak suggests Google may bring a Recall-like feature to its upcoming Pixel 9 smartphones. While the new feature will take on-device screenshots like Microsoft’s Recall on PCs, it will do it in a less threatening (and less controversial) manner.
Microsoft came under fire in recent weeks after it announced its...
Read more...
Meta is changing its “Made with AI” label to “AI info” following recommendations from its Oversight Board. The decision comes after the mega tech company came under fire from outraged creators who found their real-life images being marked with the “Made with AI” label.
While AI continues to be the biggest buzz word...
Read more...
Public opinion is turning against AI on certain topics. Some people have been dubious about the practical benefits of all the power and money spent on developing and operating AI for some time, but recently, leadership at multiple companies has gone completely "mask off" with regard to how they feel about the impact...
Read more...
YouTube has announced that its Premium subscribers are getting more perks, along with a tease about more plan options coming soon that could shake up the value proposition (depending on what the new plans offer and how much they cost).
YouTube Premium members already get an ad-free experience while viewing videos...
Read more...
The download size of video games is getting out of hand. For a massive open world game with ten years of updates like GTA Online, 110 GB isn't out of the realm of possibility. When a first-person shooter like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is 235GB, with the upcoming Black Ops 6 reportedly being over 300 GB, well, we...
Read more...
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz have made a breakthrough by creating a large language model (LLM) running on custom hardware that only sips a mere 13 watts, which is the equivalent of a modern LED light bulb. The researchers say this new LLM is 50 times more efficient that other LLMs running on...
Read more...
Toys R Us has become the first company to create the a branded film using OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video AI tool, telling the iconic toy store’s origin story.
Generative AI has seemingly been advancing at breakneck speeds lately. Whether it be Adobe’s Firefly creating incredible images from text prompts, or Luma AI’s...
Read more...
