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Here is the latest AI information for August 14.
Cutting-edge News
1. xAI releases beta versions of Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini.
Compared to Grok-1.5, Grok-2 shows significant improvements in reasoning, mathematics, programming, visual capabilities, and conversational abilities, and integrates real-time information from the X (Twitter) platform.
Detailed introduction: https://x.ai/blog/grok-2
It surpasses other mainstream models such as GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 in multiple benchmark tests.
2. Google releases a new application for AI image generation called Pixel Studio.
Based on the Imagen 3 model, it generates various images locally on the phone within 2 seconds. The application comes pre-installed on the newly released Pixel 9 series phones.
Detailed introduction: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-studio-launch-3469923/
It's free to use and provides image editing functions. It's currently unknown whether it will be supported on previous Pixel series phones.
3. OpenAI provides clarification on the model update revealed yesterday.
The update mainly focused on GPT-4o, with the latest version being "chatgpt-4o-latest". Some issues have been fixed and performance has been improved. Feel free to try it out.
Model description: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4o
Model introduction: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9624314-model-release-notes
Usually, when Google releases a product, OpenAI tends to make some noise. This time, the response seems a bit subdued.
AI Art
1. A new ControlNet model: ControlNeXt.
It supports control over image and video generation, is compatible with SD series models, and is lighter and faster compared to the original ControlNet.
GitHub: https://github.com/dvlab-research/ControlNeXt
Open Source Projects
1. An automatic speech recognition and speaker diarization framework based on Whisper: whisper-diarization.
It achieves high-precision speech processing through voice extraction, transcription generation, timestamp correction, VAD segmentation, speaker embedding extraction, and time alignment.
GitHub: https://github.com/MahmoudAshraf97/whisper-diarization
If you're developing tools for meeting records, subtitle translation, or audio analysis, this is worth a look.
