Strange Daily: Issue #5
Strange Daily: Issue #5
Stability AI gets into code generation, OpenAI introduces a webcrawler in anticipation of GPT-5, Google and Universal Music Group reportedly team up to let artists get paid for AI-generated songs
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Latest news
Stability AI launches StableCode, an LLM for code generation [Link]
Apple Music finally adds personalized recommendations, while Spotify expands its AI DJ feature, with AI-generated commentary on the music you’re listening to, globally [Link]
OpenAI introduces web crawler GPTBot in preparation for GPT-5 [Link]
🤝 Partnerships
Google and Universal Music Group in talks to license AI songs: Developing a potential tool that fans could use to make AI-generated songs, while paying the copyright owners [Link]
Shutterstock collaborates with Luma Labs AI, RECON Labs and Volinga AI: Bringing 3D NeRF generative AI technology to 3D creators globally [Link]
New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA) and Intuition Robotics expands partnership: Combating aging adult loneliness with ElliQ robot [Link]
🎓 Recent Academic Papers
PUG: A new research project by Meta AI exploring photorealistic and semantically controllable synthetic data for representation learning [Link to abstract/full-text]
Google AI research proposes VidLNs: An annotation procedure that obtains rich video descriptions that are semantically correct and densely grounded with accurate spatio-temporal localizations [Link to abstract/full-text]
AnyLoc: The latest universal method for Visual Place Recognition, which is the ability for robots to recognize where it is in current surroundings. [Link to abstract/full-text]
Researchers from NVIDIA and Tel Aviv University introduce Perfusion: A compact 100KB neural network with efficient training time [Link to abstract/full-text]
Researchers from University of Waterloo introduce a new model that reduces bias and enhances trust in AI decision-making and knowledge organization [Link to abstract/full-text]
🔧 Cool Tools and Experiments
Whatsapp tests group voice chats, similar to Discord's voice chats and Twitter Spaces, that allows users jump in and out of group voice chats [Link]
Google introduced AI-powered grammar check to its search functionality [Link]
Shutterstock launches a text-to-360 image generation tool [Link]
Note-taking app and PDF editor Goodnotes adds AI-powered handwriting recognition features to its app [Link]
💰 Latest Startup Fundings
VR design platform ShapesXR raises $8.6M in seed funding: Plans to expand new devices, including Apple Vision Pro, Pico and Magic Leap [Link]
Advertising experience platform Monetizr raises $6M to replace intrusive in-game ads with engaging brand experiences [Link]
Narrative games firm Telltale acquires interactive video tech company Flavourworks [Link]
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