Meta releases open source AI audio tools, AudioCraft

Meta On Wednesday, Meta announced it is open-sourcing AudioCraft, a suite of generative AI tools for creating music and audio from text prompts. With the tools, content creators can input simple text descriptions to generate complex audio landscapes, compose melodies, ...

Google’s RT-2 AI model brings us one step closer to WALL-E

Enlarge / A Google robot controlled by RT-2. Google On Friday, Google DeepMind announced Robotic Transformer 2 (RT-2), a “first-of-its-kind” vision-language-action (VLA) model that uses data scraped from the Internet to enable better robotic control through plain language commands. The ...

Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion XL, its next-gen image synthesis model

Enlarge / Several examples of images generated using Stable Diffusion XL 1.0. Stable Diffusion On Wednesday, Stability AI released Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 (SDXL), its next-generation open weights AI image synthesis model. It can generate novel images from text descriptions ...

OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy”

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a slot machine in a desert. Midjourney On Thursday, OpenAI quietly pulled its AI Classifier, an experimental tool designed to detect AI-written text. The decommissioning, first noticed by Decrypt, occurred with no major fanfare ...

ChatGPT’s new personalization feature could save users a lot of time

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a chatbot in front of library shelves. Benj Edwards / Stable Diffusion On Thursday, OpenAI announced a new beta feature for ChatGPT that allows users to provide custom instructions that the chatbot will consider ...