Meta’s controversial pay or be tracked ‘consent’ choice for users the European Union is facing questions from the European Commission. Today the bloc said it’s sent Facebook and Instagram’s owner a formal request for information (RFI) under the Digital Services Act (DSA), asking it to provide more detail on the “Subscription for no Ads options” […]
Tyreek Hill lawsuit: Instagram model Sophie Hall claims Dolphins star broke her leg during football drill
Tyreek Hill is reportedly facing a lawsuit from Instagram model Sophie Hall, who claims the Dolphins star broke her leg during a football drill at his mansion in Florida. Hall, who has more than 2 million followers on Instagram, was invited to Hill’s home in June 2023 and took part in a few football drills […]
Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant
Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI is gradually building an alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic as its latest announcement shows. The company is launching a new flagship large language model called Mistral Large. It is designed to rival other top-tier models when it comes to reasoning capabilities, such as GPT-4 and Claude 2. In addition to […]
Bioptimus raises $35 million seed round to develop AI foundational model focused on biology
There’s a new generative AI startup based in Paris. But what makes Bioptimus interesting is that it plans to apply everything we’ve collectively learned about AI models over the past few years with a narrow, exclusive focus on biology. The reason why it makes to sense to create a startup focused exclusively on biology is […]
OpenAI’s Sora video-generating model can render video games, too
OpenAI’s new — and first! — video-generating model, Sora, can pull off some genuinely impressive cinematographic feats. But the model’s even more capable than OpenAI initially made it out to be, at least judging by a technical paper published this evening. The paper, titled “Video generation models as world simulators,” co-authored by a host of […]