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In a strategic move, Microsoft has introduced the Copilot+ PC, featuring advanced hardware designed to run AI workflows on-device. This promises to change how we interact with computers, with AI capabilities embedded in Windows. Let’s unpack this…

Today’s Summary:

• Microsoft launches AI-driven Copilot+ PCs

• Meta unveils multimodal Chameleon model

• Dell and Nvidia partner on AI factories

• Council of Europe adopts first AI treaty

• Scarlett Johansson blasts OpenAI's “her” voice imitation

• Chatbot Arena introduces Hard Prompts ranking

• Inflection announces new executive team

• Britain expands AI Safety Institute to San Francisco

• 2 new tools

TOP STORY

Microsoft Unveils “Copilot+ PCs” with AI Hardware

The Summary: Microsoft introduced Copilot+ PCs, a new line of Windows laptops and tablets designed for AI experiences. These devices include AI NPUs chips for accelerated on-device AI.

With super-fast performance and all-day battery life, Copilot+ PCs enable new AI features within Windows 11, including Recall, which uses AI to store and search all user activity across apps, websites and files.

Key details:

• Powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chips with 45 TOPS AI NPU (Neural Processing Unit)

• New Surface Laptop claims to be 58% faster than M3 MacBook Air in specific configurations

• 22 hours of battery life

• Recall software logs all PC activities for AI conversational search.

• 40 on-device AI models, including small language models

• OpenAI's GPT-4o integration coming soon

• Models from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung starting at $999

Why it matters: After years of catching up, Microsoft is directly competing with Apple's M-series chips by integrating AI capabilities directly on the device, opening up new possibilities for OS-level AI features like Recall and locally running assistants.

META

Meet Chameleon: Meta's Omnimodel Generates Text and Image Together

The Summary: In a new paper, researchers at Meta AI introduced Chameleon, a powerful new family of multimodal AI models that can understand and generate images and text together. Chameleon is an “early-fusion” model like GPT-4o, representing all data as discrete tokens, allowing direct reasoning across modalities in a single step.

The researchers scaled Chameleon to billions of parameters while maintaining stable optimization. In a new evaluation for open-ended multimodal tasks, Chameleon substantially outperforms pre-GPT-4o models such as GPT-4-Vision and Gemini.

Key Details:

• Chameleon uses fully token-based representations for images and text

• On text-only tasks, 34B model is competitive with models like Mixtral 8x7B and Gemini-Pro

• In open-ended multimodal QA, 34B model achieves 60% preference rate vs Gemini-Pro in human evals

• Chameleon marks a big advance towards general multimodal reasoning and generation capabilities

Why it matters: Chameleon represents a new research milestone towards multimodal AI. By unifying text and image in a single model, it enables more human-like intelligence combining vision and language tasks. Its strong performance across diverse benchmarks demonstrates potential for real-world applications. Chameleon shows Meta's continued innovation and open research, keeping pace with OpenAI's GPT-4o and Google's Astra projects.

  HARDWARE 

Dell and Nvidia Team Up to Power “AI Factories” for Businesses

The Summary: Dell and Nvidia announced a partnership to provide companies with “AI factories” combining Nvidia's Blackwell chips and Dell's hardware and software solutions. This initiative aims to simplify AI infrastructure deployment.

Key details:

• New Dell PowerEdge XE9680L servers support eight Nvidia Blackwell GPUs for AI acceleration

• Hardware and software integration from both companies

• Dell AI PCs with Copilot+ features and Snapdragon processors

• Software integration with partners, including Hugging Face and Meta for AI model deployment

Why it matters: By combining their expertise, Dell and Nvidia aim to provide businesses with robust AI infrastructure to leverage AI more efficiently.

QUICK NEWS

Quick news

• Council of Europe adopts first AI treaty

• Scarlett Johansson blasts OpenAI over ChatGPT's "Sky" voice imitation without her consent

• Inflection announces new executive team

• Britain expands AI Safety Institute to San Francisco

• Chatbot Arena introduces category rankings for Hard Prompts

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