Weekly bulletin from AIport, issue #3

We continue to bring you the latest and most relevant AI developments from across the globe. Here’s our latest issue. Don’t forget to subscribe and leave feedback. Enjoy!

North America: 

• OpenAI unveils Sora – a novel GenAI model that turns descriptions into videos.

• Nvidia releases Chat with RTX – an AI chatbot that runs on Windows and can process videos and documents stored on your computer. 

• Slack, a popular team collaboration platform, adds GenAI capabilities to its flagship messenger, including thread summaries and channel recaps.  

• A California judge dismisses most of the claims in a major copyright infringement lawsuit filed against OpenAI by a group of writers, including Sarah Silverman.

• Cohere, an AI company from Canada, launches Aya – a massively multilingual LLM that covers over 100 languages. 

Europe:

• Two EU parliament committees approve the legislative framework ahead of the historic AI Act vote, which will regulate the use of AI across multiple industries.

• A London-based company, Stability AI, unveils Stable Cascade – a new image generation model that’s expected to rival visual GenAI solutions from Big Tech.

• Google announces it will open a new AI center in Paris with at least 300 research staff.

Asia: 

• AI tutoring tablets made by Baidu and iFlytek gain more popularity in China. Meanwhile, Chinese entrepreneurs push to integrate GenAI into companion toys for adults and children.  

• In Japan, Liberal Democrats – the country’s ruling party – prepare to submit a proposal to the government to have GenAI regulated by the end of this year.

• The latest IBM report finds that 59% of Indian companies utilize AI in their daily operations – the highest number of any country examined in the study. 

Australia:

• A new educational GenAI app modeled on ChatGPT is tested in schools across New South Wales – the most populous state in Australia.