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| Here's a look at today's AI briefing: - Meta will require advertisers to disclose the use of AI in political ads;
- Amazon is reportedly training an "Olympus" language model with 2 trillion parameters.
- Google is bringing its AI-powered search experience to more countries.
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| 1 | | Meta's Facebook and Instagram will require advertisers to label their AI-altered political ads ahead of the 2024 U.S. elections. The policy, set to take effect next year, will force advertisers to disclose when a political ad contains an image, video, or audio that was created or edited using AI. More: - Meta said the policy covers political ads that:
- Depict a real person saying or doing something they didn't say or do.
- Feature images of people that do not exist.
- Distort the nature of an event as it actually happened.
- Meanwhile, minor AI tweaks like cropping or color correction will be exempt from the policy.
- Meta is also barring advertisers from using its own generative AI tools for political ads on Instagram and Facebook, limiting advertisers to third-party AI software only.
Related: - Just over half of Americans, or 53%, think AI-spread misinformation will impact who wins the 2024 presidential election, according to an Axios-Morning Consult poll.
- The technology has already been used by the Republican National Committee in its first AI-generated video ad, which attacked President Biden. A pro-Ron DeSantis super PAC released a TV ad attacking former President Trump, using an AI-generated version of Trump's voice.
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| 2 | | Amazon is reportedly investing millions to train a language model, codenamed "Olympus," with 2 trillion parameters. By comparison, OpenAI's GPT-4 allegedly has 1 trillion parameters, though experts caution that bigger models may not necessarily be more capable. More: - In addition to selling Olympus-powered services and software to enterprises, Amazon could incorporate the LLM into Alexa for Echo devices, its AWS cloud unit, and its online retail store, according to The Information.
- The team behind Olympus is led by Rohit Prasad, Amazon's former Alexa head, who is now SVP and head scientist of Artificial General Intelligence at Amazon.
- Over the summer, CEO Andy Jassy appointed Prasad to lead Amazon's generative AI development team, with Prasad reporting directly to him.
Zoom out: - Amazon is said to be building a conversational shopping agent called "Project Nile."
- Earlier this year, Amazon Web Services unveiled Bedrock, a suite of generative AI tools aimed at businesses and developers.
- The toolkit features foundation models for text and images from AI21 Labs, Anthropic, and others, along with Amazon's own Titan large language models.
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| 3 | | Google is expanding its AI-powered search platform to another 120+ countries and territories. The platform, called the Search Generative Experience (SGE), is still in the experimental phase and is only available to try out via Google's Search Labs program. More: - SGE, the version of Google search with generative AI capabilities, is available to test through the Google app on Android and iOS and Chrome on desktop.
- Google is also expanding SGE to support four new languages — Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, and Indonesian — in addition to English, Hindi, and Japanese.
- SGE users can now ask follow-up questions directly from the main results page.
Zoom out: - Google launched SGE earlier this year. It's currently an early-stage experiment but could one day roll out to all users of its search engine.
- In August, Google announced that SGE could now summarize articles and other long-form content. An "Explore" section also generates questions answered by the article, along with links to relevant sections.
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| 4 | | Samsung announced a generative AI model, called Gauss, that can power AI applications locally on smartphones and other devices. Samsung might be among the first smartphone manufacturers to bring generative AI to its devices, potentially giving the phone maker an advantage over cloud-dependent models like ChatGPT. More: - Samsung may include Gauss in the upcoming Galaxy S24 devices, set to launch early next year.
- Gauss offers three capabilities:
- Gauss Language can write emails, summarize documents, translate content, and perform other tasks.
- Gauss Code, a coding assistant, helps in-house software developers write code.
- Gauss Image can generate or edit images.
Zoom out: - Samsung employees are currently using Gauss in-house, with plans to release it to the public "soon."
- The company named its AI model after Carl Friedrich Gauss, the mathematician who pioneered normal distribution theory, a foundation of machine learning and AI.
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| 5 | | Cercle, an AI startup focused on women's health and fertility, announced its launch today. Cercle's lead investors include former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and her husband, Tom Bernthal, through their venture fund, Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners (SBVP). More: - Cercle's platform draws from anonymized biomedical and genomics data from clinics and research labs.
- The platform can organize unstructured data, such as test results, into a standardized format for doctors.
- For example, a fertility doctor could use Cercle to analyze de-identified data from patients who have undergone egg freezing to see what did or didn't work.
- The results could help the doctor create a personalized treatment plan for a patient.
- Cercle has already partnered with Eurofins Genoma and U.S. Fertility, the largest fertility network in the U.S.
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| 6 | | 🍋 FRESH FUNDING 🍋 - German AI startup Aleph Alpha bagged $500M in Series B funding from Bosch Ventures, SAP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Lidl. Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence led the funding round.
- Autonomous driving startup May Mobility closed its NTT Group-led Series D round at $105M. The round saw participation from Toyota Ventures, State Farm Ventures, BMW i Ventures, Cyrus Capital, and others.
- Financial services AI platform Black Ore secured $60M in fresh funding led by a16z and Oak HC/FT. General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, SV Angel, and others participated in the round.
- Vespa.ai, an AI-powered search and scaling engine that spun out from Yahoo, received a $31M Series A capital infusion from Blossom Capital.
- 01.AI, a Chinese AI large language model startup founded by Sinovation Ventures' CEO Kai-Fu Lee, entered the unicorn club less than eight months after its launch. The firm secured an undisclosed sum from Alibaba Group's cloud unit and other investors.
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 | AI and technology writer | | Beth is an editor and writer of Inside's AI and Tech newsletters, with a career spanning journalism since 2007. She has written for publications including The Arizona Republic and USA Today and authored a book on the solar industry in 2016. Reach her at Beth.Duckett@yahoo.com. | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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