AI-360

MIT create a dataset of 5,000 'illusory' faces, revealing differences between human and AI face detection and potential links to animal face recognition.

MIT's Clio enables robots to map scenes and identify task-relevant objects using natural language prompts, combining computer vision, language models, and mapping tools.

Meta's Reality Labs release a dataset of 2,400+ detailed 3D object models, aiming to accelerate 3D reconstruction research for e-commerce and immersive reality.

Newsom vetoed AI safety bill, citing innovation concerns. The bill would've required kill switches for AI systems and established oversight for advanced models.

MIT researchers use AI to estimate particle size 60x faster in pharma manufacturing, reducing analysis time from 15 to 0.25 seconds.

Mercado Libre launches Verdi, an AI platform using GPT-4o, handling 10% of customer service and potentially supporting 9,000 human operators.

Manhattan Declaration proposes 10 principles for global AI governance. Experts emphasise cooperation, risk assessment, and responsible development.

Llama 3.2 introduces vision models and lightweight text models for edge devices. New 128K token context length enables advanced on-device AI tasks.

ChatGPT users gain access to Italian content from GEDI publications. Partnership aims to improve relevance and accuracy for Italian users beyond ChatGPT.

Microsoft enhances AI security with new features: proactive risk assessments, real-time hallucination correction, and confidential inferencing.

Stanford's "Digitalist Papers" explore AI's impact on democracy, featuring 19 experts' essays on governance strategies in the AI era.

Researchers propose labelling AI systems in healthcare with usage info, including training time, data origin, intended use, biases, and warnings.

Meta awards $1.8M in grants for AI projects using Llama models, supporting education, agriculture, and healthcare initiatives globally.

Wellcome Sanger Institute adopts NVIDIA tech for genomic analysis, reducing runtime by 1.6x, costs by 24x, and energy use by up to 42x.

OpenAI launches Academy programme, investing $1M in API credits to support AI developers in low- and middle-income countries globally.