The GPT-4o ‘Omni’ Model Will Be Available Next Week Free of Charge

The new OpenAI’s GPT-4o app that responds with voice-to-speech commands, images, and video will be available this Monday free of charge for smartphones and desktop computers. This significant development transforms ChatGPT into a fast, conversational voice assistant with natural dialogue. Experts see this tool as another setback for Google Assistant, Apple Siri, and Amazon Alexa. The San Francisco artificial intelligence start-up unveiled GPT-4o this Monday. Videos showcasing its capabilities were posted on OpenAI’s website. “We are looking at the future of the interaction between ourselves and machines,” said Mira Murati, OpenAI’s CTO. OpenAI said it would gradually share the technology with users “over the coming weeks.” This is the first time it has offered ChatGPT as a desktop application. The new app—which researchers call “multimodal AI”—cannot generate video. But it can still create images that represent the frames of a video.

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NVIDIA Updates Its Local Chatbot with Gemma and Voice Queries

NVIDIA updated this month its experimental ChatRTX chatbot app, which creates a local chatbot server that users can access from a browser and feed with docs, notes, images, YouTube videos, or other data, in order to get summaries and answers to questions. The update expands the power of NVIDIA's RTX-accelerated chatbot with additional features like video and photo/image search, as well as support for new models. The chatbot, which runs locally on a Windows PC workstation, supports a growing list of AI models that include Google’s Gemma, ChatGLM3, and OpenAI’s CLIP, intended to search and interact with local photo data. It comes with an integrated Whisper, an AI speech recognition system that let users search data using their voice. Available as a 36GB download from Nvidia’s website, ChatRTX also now supports ChatGLM3, an open bilingual (English and Chinese) large language model. .

Microsoft Research Presents VASA-1, an AI Framework for Generating Hyper-Realistic Talking Videos

Microsoft researchers presented VASA-1, a framework for generating hyper-realistic talking video with facial behavior, precise lip-audio sync, and naturalistic head motion produced in real time. It all contributes to the perception of authenticity and liveliness. This AI model takes a single portrait static photo and speech audio clip and produces videos of virtual characters with appealing visual affective skills (VAS) of 512×512 resolution at up to 40 FPS. "Our method significantly outperforms previous methods and it paves the way for real-time engagements with lifelike avatars that emulate human conversational behaviors," said Microsoft. The company made clear that VASA-1 was only a research demonstration without a product or API release plan. . The First AI-Generated Video That Looks Super Real Microsoft Research announced VASA-1. It takes a single portrait photo and speech audio and produces a hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements… pic.twitter.com/6bxd4mEgFR — Bindu Reddy (@bindureddy) April 17, 2024 • Examples of videos

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The Linux Foundation Attracts Intel and Other Industry Leaders to Building Open AI Tools

The Linux Foundation (LF) — a nonprofit organization that supports open-source initiatives — announced last month the launch of the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA), a project to foster the development of open-source, multi-provider, and composable, and modular generative AI systems. In this initiative, industry leaders like Intel, Hugging Face, Cloudera, Datstax, Red Hat, SAS, Yellowbrick Data, Domino Data Lab, MariaDB, and VMware, among others, participate. "On this foundation, enterprises can accelerate containerized AI integration and delivery, as well as new unique vertical use cases," said Ibrahim Haddad, Executive Director at LF AI & Data. OPEA intends to address the issue of the fragmentation of tools, techniques, and solutions in generative AI by collaborating with the industry to standardize components. "Intel is at the forefront of incubating open source development to build trusted, scalable open infrastructure that enables heterogeneity and provides a platform for developer innovation," added Melissa Evers, Vice President of Software Engineering Group and General Manager of Strategy to Execution, Intel. OPEA plans to address critical pain points of RAG adoption. Most generative AI models’ answers and actions are limited to the data on which they’re trained. However, with RAG, a model’s knowledge base can be extended to info outside the original training data. .

Synthesia Launches Avatars with Facial Expressions and Body Language

AI video startup Synthesia announced Expressive Avatars, powered by its EXPRESS-1 model for realistic avatar performance, with an improved tone of voice, body language, and lip sync, "like a real actor would," the company said. "We’re introducing digital actors. Our technology brings a level of sophistication and realism to digital avatars that blur the line between the virtual and the real," Synthesia explained. The EXPRESS-1 model understands the context of whether the conversation is cheerful or somber, and avatars adjust their performance accordingly, displaying a level of empathy and understanding that was once the sole domain of human actors. According to the company, 200,000 people have used Synthesia's 225 avatars to create over 18 million video presentations and published them in over 130 languages. .         ‎  

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