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Gemma 2’s latest additions, Friend’s AI necklace, Canva’s step into AI
Wear AI around your neck.
Hello, Starters!
AI is everywhere, there's no denying it. But also, it is coming to places we have never thought it would get before. Can you imagine getting an AI-powered accessory?
Here’s what you’ll find today:
Google expands its Gemma 2 family
Meet your new AI “Friend”
Canva acquires Leonardo.ai
Midjourney shares its latest updates
First look at Apple’s AI approach
And more.
🤖 Google expands its Gemma 2 family (4 min)
Google is also making its bets on openness with the launch of three new models to expand its Gemma 2 family. The company's main focus is on responsible development, and Gemma 2 2B, ShieldGemma, and Gemma Scope are a great example of how they're prioritising safety and democratising access for developers to nurture innovation.
Besides their enhanced performance, the models also have pretty interesting features. Gemma 2 2B is a lightweight model with built-in safety advancements, ShieldGemma works as a safety content classifier, filtering malicious content from prompts and generated outputs, and Gemma Scope aids developers as an interpretability tool, giving insights into the inner workings of the models.
❤️ Meet your new AI “Friend” (2 min)
Wearables are still a big part of the upcoming innovations we might see with AI. Despite some of the offerings we've seen not surviving past the hype phase, it's good to keep track of how the technology can be translated into an everyday use object. And, focusing on one of the main problems of this era, loneliness, we've been introduced to "Friend."
Created by Avi Schiffmann, this necklace serves as its name notes: a friend. It listens to you and sends its responses via text through an app. Friend doesn't store data, and its abilities are not necessarily focused on creating code, writing emails, or coming up with clever answers to queries; it is based on the sole idea of companionship.
🎨 Canva acquires Leonardo.ai (2 min)
Canva is broadening its commitment to AI with the recent acquisition of Leonardo.ai, an Australian startup focused on training AI models for image generation. This collaboration plans to give more control to creatives and promote the adoption of Gen-AI.
Despite the acquisition, Leonardo.ai will continue to work as an independent platform. However, users can expect most of its tools to start rolling out on Canva.
🍎Developers are the first ones to get a glimpse of Apple's approach to AI. Although iOS 18.1 isn't arriving yet, beta testing has started, demonstrating how the company has harnessed AI mostly for productivity enhancements, like writing aids and Siri's complete revamp.
💥The latest version of Midjourney (V6.1) is live. Some upgrades include improved image quality, accuracy in prompts, more coherent results for hands, arms, and animals, and 25% faster performance for standard image jobs. According to them, this version will make everything "generally more beautiful."
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