Here is the top trending news from the world of technology and AI during last 24 hours
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Anthropic launches a new AI model with human-like computer interaction capabilities
The generative AI startup Anthropic, which is known for its popular AI model Claude, has announced an updated version of its flagship AI model Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Separately, it also announced a new model called ‘Claude 3.5 Haiku.’ The most striking features of these models is its ability to interact with any desktop apps in almost human like manner. can navigate screens, click buttons, and perform tasks that typically require human input. This includes moving a mouse and typing, which allows it to manage complex workflows across multiple applications without direct human oversight. Developers can try out Computer Use via Anthropic’s API, Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform.
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Stability AI debuts Stable Diffusion 3.5 with enhanced text-to-image generation capabilities
The text-to-image generation platform Stability AI on Tuesday launched a updated version of its Stable Diffusion 3, Stable Diffusion 3.5. Stable Diffusion 3.5 will be available in multiple variants, Stable Image Ultra, Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Trubo, Stable Diffusion 3.5 medium and Stable Image Core. The company claims that these models can generate photorealistic images with exceptional detail, color accuracy, and lighting effects. In many ways, the Stability AI is hopeful that it will perform better than its last model Stable Diffusion 3, which the company claims that it didn’t quite lived up to its own standards and expectations .
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xAI launches API support for Grok
Elon Musk led xAI, the company behind AI chatbot Grok, has now started offering API access for its AI chatbot. Currently, the API is available only for single model ‘grok beta,’ priced at $5 per million input tokens or $15 per million output tokens. The API document mentions about future versions about Grok 2 and Grok Mini, but did not give exact timeline for their launch. The API comes inclusive with function calling feature, which facilitates Grok’s integration with external tools like databases and search engines. But this feature may not be completely operational yet. Developers will have to wait for future updates for this feature to become operational.
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Wall Street Journal & New York Times Post have sued Perplexity AI for Copyright violation
Two of America’s biggest publications Wall Street Journal and New York Times have filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI – the AI powered search engine startup – for scrapping its content without its consent. In the lawsuit, both publication companies have argued that Perplexity AI has not only uses snippet from its articles but also uses entire article while responding to the users’ queries. To make their case, they have shared several instances in their lawsuit. The is not the first time Perplexity has landed in a hot soup over alleged data scrapping from third party websites. Few months back, social media platform Reddit had alleged the AI search startup of illegally scrapping data from its platform.
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Netflix is shutting down its AAA Studio
In what appears to be a major shift in its gaming strategy, Netflix has announced that it is closing down its AAA gaming studio (also known as Team Blues). With the closure, AAA gaming studio’s three high profile hires – Joseph Staten, Chacko Sonny and Rafael Grassetti will also be leaving the studio. This is been seen as part of major layoff in Netflix’s gaming unit and a change in gaming team under leadership of new gaming head Alain Tascan, who previously worked at Epic Games. Despite the sudden closure of AAA studio, Netflix will continue to operate gaming studios and make steady investment in the gaming arm.
