Gemini and the AI Alliance: What’s New in the IT World This Past Week

We share the latest interesting news from the IT sphere.

Google presented its artificial intelligence model Gemini

The company stated that Gemini Ultra outperformed modern artificial intelligence models, including the most powerful ChatGPT model, GPT-4, in 30 out of 32 performance tests.

Source: theguardian.com

Developers from Korea released a voice generation model

Researchers from Korea University released the HierSpeech++ machine learning model, designed for text-to-speech conversion. The performance of this development surpasses solutions based on large language models and diffusion.

The system uses an ultra-high-resolution audio system. As a result, recordings are produced in a frequency range from 16 to 48 kHz.

Source: habr.com

IBM and Meta announced the creation of an alliance for the development of artificial intelligence

The AI Alliance is a coalition of leading organizations in industry, startups, academia, research, and government, coming together to support open innovation and open science in the field of artificial intelligence.

Source: newsroom.ibm.com

“Tinkoff” launched the first smart financial camera

It is capable of recognizing various items and objects — from financial information to living beings, such as dogs and cats — and making donations to funds helping homeless animals.

Using the Smart Camera in the Tinkoff mobile app, users can make transfers and payments, scan details and phone numbers, and support charitable funds.

Source: tinkoff.ru

Microsoft launched the Android app for visually impaired users Seeing AI

Seeing AI is a free app that describes the world to visually impaired people. It helps perform everyday tasks, such as reading emails. The app also provides audio descriptions of objects, photos, and much more.

Source: blogs.microsoft.com