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Adobe teases generative AI video tools

Enlarge / A demo of Firefly AI generation in Adobe Premiere. (credit: Adobe) On Monday, Adobe announced plans to add AI video synthesis tools to Premiere Pro and After Effects, reports Reuters. This follows an announcement last week that AI-powered text-based video editing will come to Premiere Pro in May. Adobe’s generative video effects will...

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FSF: Chrome’s JPEG XL killing shows how the web works under browser hegemony

Enlarge / When Google, whose Chromium/Chrome-related browsers make up 80% of browser share, says that something has “not enough interest from the entire ecosystem,” what does that mean, exactly? (credit: Aurich Lawson) Chrome developers’ decision to remove support for a compressed image format that Google helped develop is just another sign of “the disturbing amount...

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Hype grows over “autonomous” AI agents that loop GPT-4 outputs

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “self-improving robot.” (credit: Midjourney) Since the launch of OpenAI’s GPT-4 API last month to beta testers, a loose group of developers have been experimenting with making agent-like (“agentic”) implementations of the AI model that attempt to carry out multistep tasks with as little human intervention as possible. These...

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“A really big deal”—Dolly is a free, open source, ChatGPT-style AI model

Enlarge (credit: Databricks) On Wednesday, Databricks released Dolly 2.0, reportedly the first open source, instruction-following large language model (LLM) for commercial use that’s been fine-tuned on a human-generated data set. It could serve as a compelling starting point for homebrew ChatGPT competitors. Databricks is an American enterprise software company founded in 2013 by the creators...

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Generative AI comes to Amazon Web Services

Enlarge / An AI generated image of a “colorful data center.” (credit: Midjourney) On Thursday, Amazon released a new suite of AI technologies, including foundational large language models (LLMs) called Titan and a cloud computing service called Bedrock, reports Reuters. The move comes as competitors Microsoft and Google integrate AI chatbots into their search engines...