The AI-ronman 🚀

🚀 Welcome to the Future Frontier, where AI isn't just a buzzword, it's our playground! Let's dive into this week's dose of digital wizardry. 🧙‍♂️

Quick Takes ⚡

1. Samsung’s new smart home features include household maps with ‘AI characters’

2. Volkswagen is bringing ChatGPT into its cars and SUVs

3. NVIDIA at CES

4. EU checking if Microsoft’s OpenAI investment falls under merger rules

5. OpenAI says the New York Times' lawsuit is "without merit"

6. Fairy by Meta: AI-driven video-to-video synthesis

7. Microsoft executive Dee Templeton joins OpenAI board

Deep Dive 🔍

• Samsung’s new smart home features include household maps with ‘AI characters’ 🗺️ 
  
  Revolutionizing smart home management, Samsung's Now Plus offers a dedicated dashboard on select TVs for monitoring smart devices and temperature, complemented by a shortcut-equipped quick panel. The SmartThings Map View presents a real-time home layout, displaying device locations for effortless tracking and control. The maps can be created manually or automatically with the help of a photo of the floor plan or a lidar-enabled Samsung device.

• Volkswagen is bringing ChatGPT into its cars and SUVs 🚗 
  
  Volkswagen collaborates with OpenAI to integrate a ChatGPT-based chat robot into vehicles, enhancing the IDA voice assistant. Launching in the second quarter in models including ID.5 and Passat, the chat robot will deliver hands-free, enriched interactions. The move comes through a new partnership with Cerence, using its Chat Pro software to implement custom ChatGPT vehicle integrations. While not currently available in U.S. models, Volkswagen is exploring expansion and advanced AI functionalities.
  

• NVIDIA at CES
  
  NVIDIA's CES presentation in Las Vegas introduced innovative tools for gaming and content creation, including generative AI models and advanced GPUs, highlighting the significance of RTX GPUs in AI and technologies like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion.
  
  NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) debut:
  NVIDIA ACE, a generative AI platform for digital avatars, animates characters using AI models, with newly announced ACE Production Microservices for Audio2Face and Riva Speech Recognition to integrate these models into developer pipelines.

Generative AI in Visual Design:
iStock by Getty Images launched a genAI service with NVIDIA Picasso, enabling the creation of 4K imagery from text using AI trained on licensed content. The service is available at istock.com, with advanced editing features releasing via API.

GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series:
NVIDIA introduces the GeForce RTX 40 SUPER GPU series, boosting gaming with 4K ray-tracing capabilities 1.4x faster than the RTX 3080 Ti, and accelerating content creation with Stable Video Diffusion 1.5x faster and Stable Diffusion XL 1.7x faster.

RTX Remix Open Beta Launch:
RTX Remix, a platform for remastering games with ray tracing, DLSS, and generative AI tools, is set to launch in open beta on Jan. 22. Developers, including Orbifold Studios, have used RTX Remix to work on community remasters, such as Half-Life 2 RTX.

The company also announces RTX Remix for game remastering and multi-encode livestreaming collaborations with Twitch. New AI-ready RTX laptops and GeForce NOW updates, including Cloud G-SYNC technology, round out the revolutionary showcase.

• EU checking if Microsoft’s OpenAI investment falls under merger rules ⁉️ 
  
  Microsoft's financial involvement with OpenAI has caught the European Union's attention, triggering an investigation for potential merger regulation breaches. Amidst recent tumult at OpenAI and Microsoft's intervention, EU regulators, along with UK and German counterparts, are diligently examining the partnership's impact on market competition.
  

• OpenAI says the New York Times' lawsuit is "without merit" ⚖️ 
  
  In a robust rebuttal to The New York Times' lawsuit, OpenAI has published a blog post questioning the newspaper's motives and their use of specific prompts to induce content duplication. OpenAI pointed out the Times' previous acceptance of their content removal feature and emphasized the difficulties of developing AI technologies like ChatGPT under existing copyright rules, acknowledging the ongoing challenge with public opinion on AI's content utilization.

• Fairy by Meta: AI-driven video-to-video synthesis 📽️ 
  
  Meta's GenAI team introduces Fairy, a cutting-edge video-to-video synthesis model, offering a significant advancement in AI-powered video editing.Fairy uses cross-frame attention to reduce discrepancies between frames and can generate 4-second videos in just 14 seconds, 44 times faster than previous models. Despite these advances, Fairy still struggles with dynamic environmental effects such as rain, fire, or lightning that appear too static or cause visual errors.

• Microsoft executive Dee Templeton joins OpenAI board 🚺️ 
  
  Microsoft has placed Deannah Templeton in its observer seat on OpenAI's Board, a strategic move following Sam Altman's tumultuous tenure as CEO. OpenAI, looking to strengthen its board with tech expertise, is considering Scale AI's Alexandr Wang and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman for board roles, even as they previously declined interim CEO positions.

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Signing off from the silicon sphere! Stay curious, stay brilliant, and remember, in the world of AI, you're only a code away from the next big thing! 🌟

Ciao for now!

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