Procreate Illustration App for iPad Will Not Integrate Generative AI Features, Says Creativity Is ‘Not Generated’

Procreate, the illustration app for iPad, issued a statement on Monday highlighting that generative artificial intelligence (AI) will never be added to the software. The announcement comes at a time when Apple is going all out with its suite of generative AI offerings bundled as Apple Intelligence. The designing app also appears as an outlier … Read more

Explained: What Is Generative AI, the Technology Behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT?

Generative artificial intelligence has become a buzzword this year, capturing the public’s fancy and sparking a rush among Microsoft and Alphabet to launch products with technology they believe will change the nature of work. Here is everything you need to know about this technology. What is Generative AI? Like other forms of artificial intelligence, generative … Read more

Reliance Partners With Nvidia to Develop AI Language Models, Generative Apps

US chip firm Nvidia and telecom-to-retail giant Reliance on Friday announced an AI partnership to create language models, generative apps and a cloud infrastructure platform for AI development in the South Asian nation. Nvidia will provide the computing power required for the efforts, while Reliance unit Jio will manage and maintain the AI infrastructure and … Read more

Microsoft Developing Its Own ‘Athena’ AI Chip That Will Power ChatGPT-Like Generative AI: Report

Microsoft is developing its own artificial intelligence chip code-named “Athena” that will power the technology behind AI chatbots like ChatGPT, the Information reported on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. The company, which was an early backer of ChatGPT-owner OpenAI, has been working on the chip since 2019 and it is being tested … Read more

EU Lawmakers Struggle to Finalise Law to Regulate ChatGPT and Generative AI

As recently as February, generative AI did not feature prominently in EU lawmakers’ plans for regulating generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as ChatGPT. The bloc’s 108-page proposal for the AI Act, published two years earlier, included only one mention of the word “chatbot.” References to AI-generated content largely referred to deepfakes: images or audio … Read more

Meta Looking to Hire Generative AI-Focused Workers on Metaverse Team After Layoffs

Meta has listed fresh job openings for its metaverse unit at its headquarters in California, after recent layoffs at its Reality Labs unit. The social networking giant is looking for professionals proficient in generative AI (GenAI), which suggests that that it could integrate the nascent technology with its metaverse-related efforts in the future. Under CEO … Read more

MakeMyTrip to Use Microsoft’s Generative AI for Voice-Assisted Travel Bookings in Indian Languages

Travel portal MakeMyTrip on Monday said it has collaborated with Microsoft to use Generative AI to make travel planning accessible by introducing voice-assisted booking in Indian languages. The new, in-platform tech stack powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service and Azure Cognitive Services, will converse with the user to offer personalised travel recommendations based on their … Read more

Google Introduces Search Generative Experience to Rival Microsoft Bing’s AI

Alphabet‘s Google rolled out more artificial intelligence for its core search product, hoping to create some of the same consumer excitement generated by Microsoft‘s relaunch of rival search engine Bing in recent months. At its annual I/O conference in Mountain View, California, on Wednesday, Google offered an updated version of its namesake engine. Called the … Read more

Microsoft Copilot With Generative AI Features Coming to Windows 10: All You Need to Know

Microsoft Copilot — the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) assistant available on Windows 11 computers — is making its way to Windows 10. At its annual Microsoft Ignite 2023 developer conference, the company revealed that it was releasing Copilot (previously referred to as Bing Chat) in the Release Preview channel to Windows Insiders, which means the … Read more

Google to Test Ads in Generative AI Search Results as Competition Ramps Up in Search Ads Market

Alphabet‘s Google will begin experimenting with advertising within search results powered by generative artificial intelligence, the tech giant announced on Tuesday, as it seeks to fend off rival Microsoft in the lucrative search ads market. Over the past few months, Google and Microsoft have supercharged a race to change how people search for information by … Read more