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Here’s what happened this week:
YouTube announced a Music AI Incubator
Federal judge rules on copyright for AI
CoDeF: new AI tool for video editing
Hugging Face raised $235M
Code Llama: AI coding from Meta
Let's dive in.
YouTube announced a Music AI Incubator
YouTube has introduced a Music AI Incubator, a new initiative to collaborate with artists and develop generative AI.
Highlights:
The project is a major partnership between YouTube and Universal Music Group, involving well-known artists like Anitta, Ryan Tedder from OneRepublic, and representatives of the Frank Sinatra estate.
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan outlined three key principles to guide the use of AI, showing a proactive approach to balance innovation, artist protection, and opportunities.
This move aims to promote innovation and navigate copyright challenges, responding to the growing interest in AI on the platform.
With its massive user base of nearly three billion monthly users, YouTube's integration of AI could significantly shape the future of technology in the music industry, especially after previous copyright-related concerns.
Federal judge rules on copyright for AI
A lawsuit that wanted to give copyright protection to art created solely by AI systems was rejected by a federal judge.
Highlights:
The person who filed the lawsuit, Stephen Thaler, wanted to copyright art made by his AI system named the "Creativity Machine".
The judge said that copyright laws don't cover art made only by new technology without human involvement.
The judge mentioned past cases that show the importance of human creativity and choices in copyright protection.
This decision is important because it shows that AI-made art doesn't have the same copyright rights as human-made art.
As AI gets better at creating, there might be more discussions about whether it should have some copyright rights in the future.
CoDeF: new AI tool for video editing
Researchers made a cool AI system called CoDeF that can smoothly change styles and edit videos.
Highlights:
CoDeF works by using a starting picture to capture what's the same in each video frame and then follows how that picture changes over time.
This method gives videos a consistent look and can even track things that move in unusual ways like water or smoke.
People can easily use CoDeF to change how videos look and it can follow important points in the video without needing special training.
CoDeF is really impressive and might be the best AI for editing videos. You can see some awesome example videos it made.
Hugging Face raised $235M
Hugging Face, an AI startup, raised a big round with a $235 million Series D funding round.
Highlights:
This round was led by tech giants like Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Salesforce, and IBM.
Hugging Face's platform offers tools for sharing and using open-source AI. It has around 500,000 different AI models and 250,000 data sets available.
This new funding brings the total money raised by the company to $395.2 million, and the startup is now valued at $4.5 billion.
The CEO of Hugging Face, Clem Delangue, believes that AI is becoming the new way to create all kinds of software. He hopes to see 100 million AI builders using Hugging Face's platform within the next five years.
This big funding round shows how much people want to work together on AI projects. With more and more custom AI models being developed, Hugging Face's platform is becoming a big player in the world of open-source AI.
Code Llama: AI coding from Meta
Meta, the company behind many AI technologies, has introduced a new AI model named Code Llama.
Highlights:
Code Llama is designed to help with coding tasks and is made by training an AI called Llama 2 on specific code-related data.
Just like ChatGPT and Github Copilot, Code Llama can generate and modify code based on text prompts.
It's skilled in completing code and fixing errors in various programming languages such as Python, C++, Java, PHP, Typescript (Javascript), C#, and Bash.
Code Llama comes in three different sizes and has a context limit of 100,000 tokens.
The best part is, it's open source, meaning anyone can use it. You can even ask for access to it.
For all the details, you can find more information here.
Top-5 AI tools this week
Motionshift - Effortlessly create high-quality 2D and 3D videos and ads without any design skills (link)
Sturdy AI - Get AI alerts about customer-related issues, product gaps, and revenue risks you'd otherwise miss (link)
Byword - Upload thousands of keywords or titles, and generate SEO-optimized articles in just a few clicks (link)
Pickaxe - Embed AI anywhere on the web (link)
Savvy Planner - Project management platform powered by AI (link)
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