Correct Answer :   The Future is Now

The theme for India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2024, "The Future is Now," was unveiled by Minister Jyotiraditya M. Scindia.

This theme underscores India's leadership in advancing 6G technology and its role in shaping the future of telecommunications.

The event will feature innovative solutions, facilitate over 500 meetings with more than 1,000 investors, and include MoUs for enhancing cybersecurity capacity.

The theme reflects a forward-looking approach, emphasizing the immediate advancements and future potential in the technology sector.

Correct Answer :   New Zealand

New Zealand scientists may have made a breakthrough after discovering a spade-toothed whale washed up on a South Island beach.

This species, considered one of the rarest in the world, has never been observed alive, making its population size, diet, and habitat largely mysterious.

The discovery, based on the whale's distinctive physical features, including its skull, beak, and teeth, highlights ongoing efforts to understand marine biodiversity in the southern Pacific Ocean.

Correct Answer :   OpenAI

OpenAI is leading the development of the "Strawberry" project, which focuses on advancing AI's reasoning capabilities.

Previously known as Q*, this initiative aims to equip AI with autonomous deep research abilities, enabling it to autonomously navigate the internet, solve complex problems, and achieve human-like reasoning skills.

This project represents OpenAI's ongoing efforts to push the boundaries of artificial intelligence and its applications in various domains.

Correct Answer :   Gemini

Alphabet (GOOGL.O) on Wednesday (6th Dec 2023) introduced its most advanced artificial intelligence model, a technology capable of crunching different forms of information such as video, audio and text.

* Called Gemini, the Google owner's highly anticipated AI model is capable of more sophisticated reasoning and understanding information with a greater degree of nuance than Google's prior technology, the company said.

* "This new era of models represents one of the biggest science and engineering efforts we’ve undertaken as a company," Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a blog post.

* Since the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT roughly a year ago, Google has been racing to produce AI software that rivals what the Microsoft (MSFT.O)-backed company has introduced.

* Google added a portion of the new Gemini model technology to its AI assistant Bard on Wednesday (6th Dec 2023), and said it planned to release its most advanced version of Gemini through Bard early next year.

* Alphabet said it is making three versions of Gemini, each of which is designed to use a different amount of processing power. The most powerful version is designed to run in data centers, and the smallest will run efficiently on mobile devices, the company said.

* Gemini is the largest AI model that the company's Google DeepMind AI unit has helped make, but it is "significantly" cheaper to serve to users than the company's prior, larger models, DeepMind Vice President, Product Eli Collins told reporters.

* "So it's not just more capable, it's also far more efficient," Collins said. The latest model still requires a substantial amount of computing power to train, but Google is improving on its process, he added.

* Alphabet also announced a new generation of its custom-built AI chips, or tensor processing units (TPUs). The Cloud TPU v5p is designed to train large AI models, and is stitched together in pods of 8,960 chips.

* The new version of its customer processors can train large language models nearly three times as fast as prior generations. The new chips are available for developers in "preview" as of Wednesday, the company said..

Source : Reuters

Correct Answer :   Inflection AI Inc

Inflection AI, the artificial intelligence start-up founded by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, has released its first AI chatbot product, the company said on Tuesday (2nd May 2023).

* Similar to OpenAI’s viral chatbot ChatGPT, Inflection’s chatbot, named "Pi", uses generative AI technology to interact with users through dialogues, in which people can ask questions and share feedback.

* Mr Suleyman, Inflection AI’s chief executive, said the start-up developed the technology in-house and its Pi chatbot was built on prioritising human-like conversations with a high level of emotional intelligence, including being kind and supportive.

* The chatbot is suitable for personal day-to-day tasks but not for generating codes or essays, he added.

* Mr Suleyman said the company had also spent time on boundary training to make sure the AI did not violate its behaviour policies, including engaging in romantic conversations.

* The goal is to make sure that the AI always knows it’s an AI and never tries to imitate a human. So it reminds the human user that it is an AI frequently.

* Users can interact with Pi across platforms including its website, app and social media platforms such as Instagram. The service is free, and the start-up may launch premium subscriptions in the future, Mr Suleyman added.

* Pi draws on user data, including conversational content, to train its AI systems, according to its terms of service. The chatbot is not currently connected to the Internet.

* Founded in 2022, Inflection was incubated by venture capital firm Greylock, which led a US$225 million (S$300 million) investment in the start-up.

* Co-founder Hoffman, a partner at Greylock who is also a Microsoft board member, resigned from OpenAI’s board in March, citing potential conflicts due to his work with AI start-ups.

Source : Straits Times

Correct Answer :   DALL-E

Microsoft’s search engine Bing has a new artificial intelligence-powered image creator tool. It is called the "Bing Image Creator" which is powered by the advanced version of OpenAI’s text-to-image model DALL.E.

* Bing Image Creator allows users to create an image using text prompt. This means that from within the same chat, users can generate both text and image content.

* By typing in a description of an image, providing additional context like location or activity, and choosing an art style, Image Creator will generate an image from your own imagination. It’s like your creative copilot.

* The feature is out to Bing users in preview and can be accessed through the search engine’s Creative Mode. Microsoft plans on rolling out the feature to Balanced and Precise modes in Bing in future. The feature will also be available in Edge sidebar.

* Microsoft is also making Stories and Knowledge Cards 2.0 available for all Bing users to meet the demand for more visual search options.

* Stories are AI-generated images and short videos (like Instagram Stories) and Knowledge Cards offers facts and key information in the form of AI-powered infographics.

* The new version of Knowledge Cards includes interactive and dynamic content like charts, graphs, visual stories, and timelimes.

* Microsoft has also added guardrails to the feature to ensure responsible use of Image Creator. As per Microsoft, system can automatically detect potentially harmful image that could be generated by a prompt.

* In such cases, the prompt is blocked and a warning message is displayed to the user. All images created by Image Creator will include modified Bing icon to indicate that it is an AI-generated image..

Source : Tech Circle

Correct Answer :   Adobe

Software major Adobe has announced new generative AI innovations across its Experience Cloud that aims to redefine how businesses deliver customer experiences.

* In Adobe Experience Cloud, customers will be able to move seamlessly between "Sensei GenAI" services and existing features, right within their workflows, the company said during the 'Adobe Summit'.

* "Adobe has a long history of unlocking AI as a co-pilot for marketers, and we have a vision for generative AI that covers the full lifecycle of customer experience management, with the enterprise-grade security and data governance that our customers expect," said Amit Ahuja, senior vice president, Digital Experience Business at Adobe.

* With Sensei GenAI, marketers and other customer experience teams will have a co-pilot to help increase their productivity without having to increase their workload.

* The company will bring Adobe Firefly, a new family of creative generative AI models, directly into its Experience Cloud.

* Adobe's first model, trained on Adobe Stock images, openly licensed content and public domain content where copyright has expired, will focus on images and text effects and is designed to generate content safe for commercial use.

* In the future, marketers will be able to also train Adobe Firefly on the brand's own collateral, generating content that reflects the brand's style and design language.

* Sensei GenAI will enable brands to instantly generate and modify text-based experiences across any customer touchpoint and leverage different large language models (LLMs), including ChatGPT through the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service and FLAN-T5.

* The selection will align with the unique needs of each business, stemming from brand guidelines, product vocabulary and customer insights...

Source : Daily Pioneer

Correct Answer :   Meta

On Friday (24th Feb 2023), Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta Platforms' impending release to researchers of a new large language model called LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI).

* The model, developed by Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team, is intended to aid scientists and engineers in exploring AI applications and functions such as answering questions and summarizing documents.

* Meta has said that it will offer LLaMA in sizes such as 7B, 13B, 33B, and 65B parameters.

* In its research paper, Meta noted that LLaMA-13B outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-3 (175B) on most benchmarks and LLaMA-65B is competitive with the best models, DeepMind’s Chinchilla70B and Google’s PaLM-540B.

* Once fully trained, LLaMA-13B can be a boon for small businesses that are looking forward to running tests on these systems, however, it may still be far from researchers working isolation.

* LLaMA comes as tech companies race to promote advances in AI techniques and integrate technology into their commercial products. As CNBC notes, Meta's release is distinguished from competitors' models as it will be available in a selection of sizes, from 7 billion parameters up to 65 billion parameters.

* Another way LLaMA is different, according to Meta : It requires "far less" computing power than previous offerings and is trained in 20 languages, focusing on those based on the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets.

* With its 13 billion parameters, LLaMA should outperform GPT-3, the model upon which ChatGPT is built. Meta also attributed LLaMA's performance to "cleaner" data and "architectural improvements" in the model that improved training stability.

* Meta's launch of LLaMA may mark a major development in AI language models. The social media giant's commitment to open science and allowing researchers to study under a non-commercial license will limit the model's misuse.

* LLaMA's versatility and problem-solving potential may provide a glimpse of AI's substantial potential benefits to billions of people at scale..

Source : Entre Preneur

Correct Answer :   Intel

Intel has launched the new Xeon W-3400 and Xeon W-2400 desktop workstation processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), which are built for professional creators to provide massive performance for media and entertainment, engineering, and data science professionals.

* According to Intel, the new workstation processors are available for pre-order from industry partners, with system availability beginning in March.

Intel Launched ‘Sapphire Rapids’ Processors for Professional Creators :

* The new Intel Xeon desktop workstation platform is uniquely designed to unleash the innovation and creativity of professional creators, artists, engineers, designers, data scientists, and power users.

* Intel vice president and general manager Roger Chandler informed that it is built to tackle both the most demanding workloads as well as the professional workloads of the future.

* Moreover, the company informed that the Xeon W-3400 and Xeon W-2400 processor series enable unprecedented scalability for increased performance with a breakthrough new compute architecture, faster cores, and new embedded multi-die interconnect bridge (EMIB) packaging.

* The new processors also provide the high-end computing foundation that professionals these days require for the future of computing.

* The chip-making company, Intel, mentioned that with DDR5 RDIMM memory, PCIe Gen 5.0, and Wi-Fi 6E, the new processors give professionals the cutting-edge platform technologies they require for the compute workloads of the future..

Source : Business Standard

Correct Answer :   Velocity

Homegrown financial technology firm Velocity on Monday (13th February 2023) launched India’s first AI chatbot integrated with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, called “Lexi".

Velocity has integrated this latest advancement in artificial intelligence with its existing analytics tool, Velocity Insights.

A chatbot is a computer program that uses Artificial intelligence and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to understand and answer the queries put by customers.

Velocity introduces Indian version of ChatGPT :

"We are thrilled to launch India’s first chatbot tool that is integrated with ChatGPT. We have integrated this latest advancement in artificial intelligence with our existing analytics tool – Velocity Insights," the blog post by Velocity reads.

The CEO and co-founder of Velocity, Abhiroop Medhekar, said in the same blog post that the product teams had been thinking of ways to use the ChatGPT technology for the benefit of their customers.

Velocity insights helps businesses to keep a tab on their market spending, revenues, and so on. It provides founders with necessary business insights, which can be accessed via WhatsApp in the form of a daily business report.

Now that ChatGPT has been integrated in the same WhatsApp interface, customers will be able to use the AI, Lexi.

The integration of ChatGPT with Velocity Insights empowers eCommerce founders by providing them with AI-powered business insights in a conversational manner, freeing up time for critical business functions...

Source : India Today