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Today’s top AI Highlights:

1. Google Search to mark AI-generated content as Spam

2. New Video Foundation Model for Any-to-Any AI Search

3. TripoSR: Fast 3D Object Generation from Single Images

4. Cloudflare’s Firewall for AI to Combat LLM Abuses

5. Zero to Website Hero in Seconds with Wix AI Website Builder

& so much more!

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The internet is becoming increasingly cluttered with AI-generated and spammy content making it difficult for us to get valuable and accurate information. From websites cranking out thousands of low-quality articles to exploit search engine algorithms to the misuse of respected domains filled with irrelevant, AI-generated text, the web is in a constant battle against content designed more to attract clicks than to inform or enlighten.

In response to this growing issue, Google has announced significant updates to its search ranking systems to push back against the tide of low-quality content, including AI-generated content. By prioritizing high-quality, human-generated content and downranking material that simply summarizes others’ work, Google is taking a stand against the spread of digital noise. These changes have already shown promising results, with Google reporting a 40 percent reduction in “unhelpful content” within its search results.

Specifically targeting behaviors like mass-producing low-quality articles, exploiting site reputations, and hijacking expired domains, Google is giving web operators a clear message: improve your content or become less visible. This crackdown includes a 60-day notice for those engaged in site reputation abuse to rectify their ways.

TripoSR is a collaborative project between Stability AI and Tripo AI, designed to change how we approach 3D modeling from single images. With its ability to generate high-quality 3D models in under a second, TripoSR can make 3D modeling more accessible and efficient, especially for users without the luxury of high-powered GPUs and inference budgets. It’s not just about speed; the technology promises detailed outputs that cater to professionals across entertainment, gaming, and design sectors.

Key Highlights:

1. TripoSR generates draft-quality 3D models in less than 0.5 seconds on an Nvidia A100, showcasing an impressive speed that doesn’t compromise on accessibility to users without high-end hardware.

2. TripoSR leverages transformer architecture for fast 3D generation, producing 3D mesh from a single image in under 0.5 seconds. The model, inspired by the LRM (Large Reconstruction Model For Single Image to 3D), integrates improvements in data processing, model design, and training techniques.

3. TripoSR outperforms other open-source image-to-3D models in both speed and quality, based on tests on public datasets.

Twelve Labs has unveiled Marengo 2.6a cutting-edge foundation model for any-to-any search tasks, including text-to-video, text-to-image, text-to-audio, audio-to-video, and image-to-video. The model’s expanded capabilities allow for any-to-any (cross-modality) retrieval tasks, making it a versatile tool for a wide range of applications. Beyond just enhancing search functions, Marengo 2.6 integrates a comprehensive understanding of visual, auditory, and textual content, thereby elevating the way we interact with digital content.

Key Highlights:

1. Marengo 2.6 introduces an innovative “Gated Modality Experts” architecture, integrating visual and audio experts through a Gated Fusion Module. This structure enables the model to process multimodal inputs thoroughly, supporting its extensive any-to-any search capabilities. The model’s architecture is specifically designed to enhance temporal localization and bridge the gap between various media types, ensuring comprehensive and precise search results.

2. In comparison tests, Marengo 2.6 outshines its predecessors and current state-of-the-art models, setting new benchmarks in performance. Specifically, it has demonstrated significant improvement over Google’s VideoPrism-G by 10% on the MSR-VTT dataset and by 3% on the ActivityNet dataset in zero-shot text-to-video retrieval tasks.

3. The model has established new SOTA performances, demonstrating exceptional average recall improvements in zero-shot search tasks for videos, images, and audio. It excels particularly in retrieving video content with nuanced understanding, outshining previous benchmarks.

Cloudflare is rolling out its latest security offering, Firewall for AIfor safeguarding LLMs from potential abuses like prompt injection, disclosing sensitive information, and data poisoning. This move comes as LLMs increasingly become integral to internet-connected applications, prompting a need for specialized protection against both traditional cyber threats and new vulnerabilities unique to LLMs. Including features like Rate Limiting and Sensitive Data Detection, plus a newly developed validation layer for prompt analysis, Cloudflare’s approach is both comprehensive and tailored to the specific challenges of LLM applications.

Key Highlights:

1. Cloudflare’s Firewall introduces a cutting-edge solution designed to protect LLMs from abuses by pre-emptively identifying and blocking potential threats. This is achieved through a combination of existing Web Application Firewall (WAF) tools and a novel validation process that scrutinizes user prompts for signs of exploitation attempts, offering real-time protection.

2. The Firewall is engineered with a deep understanding of the unique LLM vulnerabilities. These include non-deterministic operation modes and the integration of training data within the models, which traditional security mechanisms may not effectively address. Cloudflare utilizes the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs as a framework for identifying and mitigating these unique risks.

3. Cloudflare’s solution is not just limited to a single type of LLM deployment. It covers internal, public, and product LLMs, ensuring a wide range of applications—from corporate assets to customer-facing products—are shielded from cyber threats.

1. Wix AI Website Builder: Create a unique, business-ready website in seconds. With a conversational interface, you can easily generate and refine various elements like design, text, and layout until the website aligns with your vision.
   It offers a suite of advanced features such as AI-driven design selections, smart content generation, and the integration of various business solutions including appointment scheduling, eCommerce capabilities, and personalized SEO plans.

2. GPT-Fast: A simple and efficient PyTorch-native transformer for text generation, encapsulated in less than 1000 lines of Python code. It emphasizes low latency, minimal dependencies (only PyTorch and SentencePiece), and supports advanced features like int8/int4 quantization, speculative decoding, and tensor parallelism on both Nvidia and AMD GPUs.

3. Structify: A suite for all research needs providing high-quality, accurate data at speeds beyond human capability for a variety of industries including financial services, media & PR, sales, marketing, and HR.

4. Ema: A universal AI employee designed to enhance productivity across various organizational roles through automating complex workflows using a proprietary Generative Workflow Engine™. It integrates data governance, security, and a fusion model that combines outputs from multiple AI models for accuracy and efficiency in enterprise applications.

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1. People are reading way too much into Claude-3’s uncanny “awareness”. Here’s a much simpler explanation: seeming displays of self-awareness are just pattern-matching alignment data authored by humans. ~ Jim Fan

2. OpenAI is NO LONGER the sole king of AI and that should be a huge relief for everyone! ~ Bindu Reddy

3. Twitter yesterday: GEN AI and LLMs have peaked, this is a dead end, it won’t lead to AGI
   Twitter today: Claude 3 has its own worldview and is nearly sentient, AGI is probably a few months away! ~ Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau

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