A short AI news roundup for Workollab readers. These are the updates worth tracking this week.
News
- Ford’s new AI assistant can check your fuel levels and tire pressure (The Verge AI)
Ford is rolling out a new AI-powered assistant that can answer questions about your Ford or Lincoln vehicle, such as how much fuel you'll need for your next road trip or whether your truck can tow that new motor boat. The app is rolling out - AI for science needs reasoning, not just data (MIT Technology Review AI)
Every few decades, someone announces that science has reached its end. In 1903, the revered physicist Albert Michelson wrote that the “facts of physical science have all been discovered.” In the 1980s, Stephen Hawking predicted that theoret - These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs (MIT Technology Review AI)
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. Way back in the summer of 2017, AI researchers at Google put out a pape - ByteDance Seed Introduces SeedRealtime: a Native Audio-Visual Full-Duplex LLM That Watches, Listens and Speaks in One Model (MarkTechPost)
ByteDance’s Seed team has introduced SeedRealtime, a native audio-visual full-duplex LLM. The model fuses audio, video and text in a single unified architecture. It interacts in real time over continuous multimodal streams, rather than one - NVIDIA Releases NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B: An Open Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech Model with ~450 ms Turn-Taking and Live Tool Calling (MarkTechPost)
NVIDIA releases NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B, an open full-duplex speech-to-speech model with 448 ms latency and live tool calling.
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