📹️ YouTube’s AI charge

🧵 In today's edition:

• 📹️ YouTube’s AI charge

• 🤖 Alibaba intensifies AI competition

•  📜 UN and its seven recommendations (for AI governance)

• 🛠️ AI Tools to Check Out

• 🤑 AI Fundraising News

• 🐦 Tweet Post of the Day

📹️ YouTube’s AI charge

In a recent announcement, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan introduced a suite of new AI features designed to enhance creativity and streamline video production on the platform.

Here’s a breakdown of the key updates:

• Veo: An AI-powered tool that generates six-second video clips for YouTube Shorts based on text prompts.

• Inspiration: AI-generated content ideas and suggestions for responding to comments.

• Dream Track: A feature that creates instrument-only tracks for Shorts.

• Music AI Sandbox: A tool for generating musical loops.

• Enhanced Auto-dubbing: Improved AI translation with more natural-sounding speech.

• Hype Button: Allows viewers to suggest videos for a new trending page.

In addition, YouTube is rolling out:

• Options for creators to label content as "Seasons" and "Episodes."

• An expanded "Communities" feature for fan interaction.

• New monetization options, including livestream "gifts."

YouTube also came out on the offensive: 

• To address concerns about AI misuse, YouTube emphasized that all AI-generated content will be watermarked and labelled for transparency. 

• The platform stated that its goal is to use AI to enhance human creativity, not replace it.

These updates align with AI integrations from other tech giants and build on YouTube's existing AI tools, such as the "DreamScreen" background generator for Shorts. 

Overall: YouTube’s new AI tools will empower creators to work more efficiently while maintaining transparency and responsibility. By enhancing creativity and offering new ways to engage and monetize, YouTube is positioning itself at the forefront of AI-driven content creation and making a serious run at being the one-stop-creative-shop for all things video 🎥

Read more: NBC News

🤖 Alibaba intensifies AI competition

Chinese tech giant Alibaba is back making big moves in the AI race by releasing over 100 new open-source AI models and unveiling text-to-video AI technology - marking a crucial step in Alibaba's strategy to compete with AI development globally. 

Here’s the TL;DR on all the new releases: 

1. The new models come from Alibaba's Qwen 2.5 family, introduced in May 2024.

2. Model sizes range from 0.5 to 72 billion parameters, catering to diverse AI applications.

3. The models excel in mathematics and coding and support over 29 languages.

4. Alibaba aims to serve various sectors, including automotive, gaming, and scientific research.

5. The company also launched a text-to-video model as part of its Tongyi Wanxiang image generation family.

Alibaba's approach differs from competitors like Baidu and OpenAI, which primarily use closed-source models. Instead, Alibaba is adopting a hybrid strategy, investing in both proprietary and open-source development to broaden its AI product range.

Overall: This move puts Alibaba in direct competition with global players like OpenAI in the emerging text-to-video market. 

It also follows recent developments from other Chinese tech firms, such as ByteDance's launch of the Jimeng AI text-to-video app.

Read more: Reuters

 📜 UN and its seven recommendations (for AI governance)

The United Nations AI advisory body has released its final report, outlining seven key recommendations to address AI-related risks and governance gaps. 

These proposals come at a crucial time when AI's rapid spread has raised concerns about misinformation, copyright infringement, and the concentration of AI development in the hands of a few multinational companies.

The 7 recommendations are:

1. Establish a panel to provide impartial scientific knowledge about AI and address information asymmetries.

2. Create a new policy dialogue on AI governance.

3. Develop an AI standards exchange.

4. Form a global AI capacity development network to boost governance capabilities.

5. Establish a global AI fund to address gaps in capacity and collaboration.

6. Create a global AI data framework for transparency and accountability.

7. Set up a small AI office to support and coordinate the implementation of these proposals.

The recommendations will be discussed in detail at a UN summit later this month, but their high-level goal is to ensure that AI development is not imposed on people without their input and to address the current patchwork of AI governance globally.

Currently, only a few countries have comprehensive AI laws, with the European Union leading with its AI Act. The United States has opted for voluntary compliance, while China focuses on maintaining social stability and state control.

Overall: These UN proposals come shortly after about 60 countries endorsed a "blueprint for action" for responsible military use of AI, which China did not support.

As AI continues to evolve rapidly, these recommendations represent a significant step towards creating a global framework for responsible AI development and use.

Read more: Reuters

🛠️ AI Tools to Check Out

• Unapod: Transforms long reads into bite-sized audio podcasts tailored to your preferences. Check it out!

• Jenkins AI: AI that helps you track your cash flows using a chat-based system and in-depth analysis of your spending. Check it out!

• Indigo: A suite of desktop and web applications to enable the future of work with AI. Save prompts and run them in any app. Check it out!

🤑 AI Fundraising News

• Cercle raises $6M in Seed funding to provide women’s healthcare providers with real-time insights through its platform, the Cercle Biomedical Graph, improving efficiency and personalized care.

• Fathom raises $17M in Series A funding to transcribe, summarize and analyze meetings in real-time.

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