Spotify's AI to build playlists 🎶

Good Morning! Welcome to another edition of Lightway.

Here’s everything you need to know to start your week:

→ Spotify’s AI can build you a playlist with text prompts
→ X.AI unveils new Grok 1.5 V AI model
→ Instagram is testing new AI-powered search
→ Meta and OpenAI are gearing up to launch next-gen AI models, and 9 more Tech & AI news.

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Highlights of the week

Spotify’s AI builds playlist using text description

Spotify is introducing an innovative way to create playlists using AI, currently available to Premium users in the UK and Australia.

• AI Playlist Creation: Users can generate playlists by typing prompts that describe the desired music mood or setting.

• Easy Access and Use: This feature is found in the Spotify mobile app under “Your Library,” by clicking the “+” button.

• Customizable Results: Playlists can be fine-tuned with further prompts, and once satisfied, users can save their custom playlist.

• Creative Matching: The AI effectively matches music to highly specific prompts, enhancing user experience by suggesting songs that fit niche tastes or scenarios.

Spotify plans to improve this feature over time suggesting ongoing enhancements to the playlist generation capabilities. (Read More)

X.ai unveils new Grok 1.5 AI model

Elon Musk's x.AI research lab introduced Grok-1.5 Vision (Grok-1.5V), an advanced AI model, just nine months after the startup was founded.

The new AI mode comes with significant upgrades, including:

• Enhanced Visual Processing: Grok-1.5V can analyze a variety of visual content such as documents, diagrams, charts, and photos.

• Improved Reasoning Abilities: The model excels in multi-disciplinary reasoning and understanding spatial relationships, showcasing better performance on the RealWorldQA benchmark.

• Versatile Applications: Grok-1.5V is capable of tasks ranging from writing code from drawings to calculating calories from food photos, and even offering home maintenance advice.

Grok-1.5V will soon be available to testers and existing users (Read More)

Meta is expanding AI-powered search to Instagram

Meta is actively expanding AI-powered search to its social media platforms, including Whatsapp and Instagram.

Here’s everything you need to know:

• AI on WhatsApp and Instagram: Meta is testing its AI chatbot on WhatsApp in India and integrating AI into Instagram's search bar for improved user interaction and content discovery.

• Enhanced Search Capabilities: Users can directly interact with Meta AI through the search bar, which not only answers queries but also suggests content like Instagram Reels.

• Content Discovery: The AI helps users discover specific content using text prompts, with personalized content suggestions.

Along with new Llama-3 AI models, Meta is planning to roll out the AI-search feature globally by later this year.

Meta and OpenAI getting closer to AI models capable of Reasoning

OpenAI and Meta are gearing up to launch new AI technologies that aim to make artificial intelligence smarter and more capable of complex thinking.

• Next-Generation Models: Meta plans to introduce Llama 3, and OpenAI is preparing GPT-5. These models are designed to push the boundaries of AI's reasoning and planning abilities.

• Enhanced Capabilities: The focus is on enabling these AI systems to perform more sophisticated tasks, moving beyond simple, one-off tasks to more complex sequences of actions.

• Future Possibilities: These improvements are critical steps toward achieving artificial general intelligence, which could handle tasks and make decisions like a human being.

• Integration in Devices: Meta will integrate Llama 3 into products like WhatsApp and smart glasses, enhancing how users interact with AI in everyday scenarios. (Read More)

 Tech Roundup

→ Meta AI: Take a look at Meta’s approach to labelling AI-Generated content and manipulated images and videos (link)

→ AI Graders: Texas is replacing thousands of human exam graders with AI. (link)

→ AI to exceed human intelligence: Elon Musk predicts AI will be smarter than average humans by 2026. (link)

→ Google’s fall detection device: Google files patent for a new radar-based fall detection home device in the US (link)

→OpenAI fires two researchers: OpenAI fires two researchers for allegedly leaking information. (link)

→ New ChatGPT version: OpenAI released a new upgrade for ChatGPT-4 turbo model with improvements in writing, coding, logical reasoning and math (link)

→ Open Source AI: Mixtral releases 8×22B, a new open-source AI model available free for download (link)

→ Earn from Chatbots: Quora's Poe now lets AI chatbot developers charge per message (link)

→ Intel’s new AI chip: Intel unveils new AI chip, Gaudi 3, as Nvidia competition heats up (link)

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