The AI Samosa

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Samosas are back!!!

After a couple of months of working on our writing, format, and Ideas for the Newsletter. We are back again with more fun & Exciting things about AI around India.

Let’s dive into today’s edition.

What’s the buzz today??

Another Rival from Google to ChatGPT.

Google’s Deepmind AI is set to make a chatGPT rival or something even more powerful than that called Gemini.

According to Wired, DeepMind is using techniques from AlphaGo, an AI system that was the first to defeat a professional human player in the board game.

“At a high level, you can think of Gemini as combining some of the strengths of AlphaGo-type systems with the amazing language capabilities of the large models and we also have some new innovations that are going to be pretty interesting”. - DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis.

Dub your YouTube videos.

Now, you can publish your Youtube video in as many languages as you want with YouTube’s new dubbing feature.

Google’s Aloud an AI-powered dubbing product transcribes a video for the creator, then translates and produces a dubbed version.

Youtube is working to make translated audio tracks sound like the creator’s voice, with more expression and lip sync. Youtube seems to be cooking something big in the creator space.

“As of now, creators have dubbed more than 10,000 videos in over 70 languages”

ChatGPT lost to its Rival, not Bard!!

Its Baidu!

Baidu, the leading search engine provider in China, announced that its latest version of the Ernie AI model, Ernie 3.5, has surpassed ChatGPT, in multiple key metrics. Baidu made this statement, highlighting Ernie 3.5's superior comprehensive ability scores compared to ChatGPT and its outperformance in several Chinese capabilities compared to GPT-4.

Baidu was the first major Chinese tech company to unveil an AI product to rival ChatGPT, introducing its language AI Ernie Bot. It is also working on supporting external plugins.

What’s so hot in India?? 🥵🥵

Salesforce CEO says India has opportunities in AI.

Salesforce India CEO Arundhati Bhattacharya: India does have the opportunity to leapfrog into AI and generative AI. Now, how far and how long it will take, it's anybody's guessing generative AI is something that's maturing.

It's not something that's completely mature.

Recently salesforce has doubled its Generative AI fund from $250 to $500 million.

Manish Gupta, Director of Google Research about AI in India.

In an interview, Manish Gupta, director of Google Research India, spoke about improving the quality of data available in Indian languages, what Google is doing to address computing access issues for Indian researchers, and the differences in addressing AI bias in India and in the West.

Read the full Interview here .

Around the corners

Karnataka is not cool with Fake news! 🧟🧟

Karnataka government is deeply disturbed by the rise of Fake news not only in Political issues but also in other sensitive issues which could create a mess among the people.

So, they have decided technology like Artificial Intelligence, to identify those posting such things, their origins, and their intention, and finally take necessary legal action.

They are even ready to make any amendments to the law!

Soon the government is planning to have a discussion with Google, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media platforms.

Let’s talk about Money 🤑

$50 million to build another LLM

AI model startup Reka raises $50 million in funding led by DST Global

Reka focuses on building large and specialized AI models for enterprise customers. Snowflake, which invested in the company, also announced a partnership to allow users to run third-party model providers like Reka within their Snowflake account.

The partnerships came as Snowflake competitor Databricks acquired AI model training company MosacicML in a $1.3 billion deal on Monday.

Inflection raised $1.3 billion to build your Personal AI.

Inflection's funding comes less than two months after the company, founded by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, released its chatbot, Pi.

That’s all for the day folks!!

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