Amazon Announces Q Chatbot

Plus, is Pika 1.0 AI Video's ChatGPT Moment?

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Nathaniel Whittemore
November 29, 2023

The AI Breakdown First Five - Wednesday November 29, 2023

Today on the First Five:

  • 5. ElevenLabs Launches Grant Program

  • 4. Meta AI Election Rules

  • 3. Google Calls for Pro-Innovation Rules in Contentious EU AI Act Process

  • 2. Is Pika 1.0 AI Video's ChatGPT Moment?

  • 1. Amazon Announces Q Chatbot and AI Chips

5. ElevenLabs Launches Grant Program

To support startups and solopreneuers in the AI space, ElevenLabs has launched a grant program that will give selected recipients up to 11 million tokens to use on voice synthesis. What crazy ideas will people come up with for this?

4. Meta AI Election Rules

Meta continues to expand its AI election rules. It will turn off all social and political ads the week before the elections, and even before that, any ads using generative AI will need to have full disclosure. Still, expect this to be a wild year in political advertising...

Meta updates political advertising rules to cover AI-generated images and videos

Meta details more updates to its political advertising policy, taking in account AI.

www.cnbc.com/2023/11/28/meta-updates-political-ad-rules-to-cover-ai-generated-images-videos.html

3. Google Calls for Pro-Innovation Rules in Contentious EU AI Act Process

The process to get the EU AI Act over the finish line is being complicated by questions around how to regulate foundation models. Google's chief legal officer this week echoed calls from other tech labs that rules should be pro-innovation, and that getting rules right was more important than getting them first.

AI legal framework needs to promote innovation, senior Google executive says

Rules governing the use of artificial intelligence should support innovation, Google's chief legal officer Kent Walker said on Tuesday, echoing pleas by a wide swath of businesses and tech groups as the European Union races to agree AI rules next month.

www.reuters.com/technology/ai-legal-framework-needs-promote-innovation-senior-google-executive-says-2023-11-28

2. Is Pika 1.0 AI Video's ChatGPT Moment?

Just a week after Stability AI announced Stable Video Diffusion, Pika has announced Series A funding and Pika 1.0, which brings some seriously impressive capabilities to text-to-video. So much so that some are calling it AI video's "ChatGPT moment."

1. Amazon Announces Q Chatbot and AI Chips

At their annual re:Invent event, AWS made a few big AI announcements. We didn't get the massive rumored "Olympus" model, but we did get the "Q" chatbot aimed at the enterprise, as well as the latest generation of AI custom chips. For now, the race to catch GPT-4 continues.

Bonus: An AI image upscaled

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