AI News – Jun 02
Samsung want Perplexity on their phones PlayAI lets you modify any audio Unitree Robotics partner with Reborn to create the Roboverse And when the world looks a bit grey, just give it a little colour Here’s today’s AI news. Samsung is reported to be close to a deal with Perplexity to integrate their AI search and assistant technology into their phones.
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This would give Samsung an opportunity to offer a class leading AI assistant directly into the user experience of their phones and reduce some of their reliance on Google. Perplexity was recently valued at $9 billion and a deal like this could see that figure rise even higher. PlayAI just released a new open source model called Playdiffusion.
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This is an AI speech editing model that lets you modify existing speech in audio. If you’re familiar with the concept of inpainting with AI visuals, then this is a similar concept with AI audio. You take an existing piece of audio content and get the model to add, modify or replace words and phrases while matching the original voice.
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Unitree Robotics have made many headlines this year with their amazing robotic feats. Today they’ve announced a partnership with Reborn who make an open source robotics platform called Roboverse. This includes a simulation platform that they claim makes training up to 30 times faster.
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Unitree seem to have an edge in the robotic hardware department. With this robotic software collaboration they could really get a huge advantage over the competition. And finally, Sylvan Shen is a creative technologist specialising in AI and augmented reality. In this video we see a demo of one of her latest experiments where a Quest headset is used to put a fresh coat of paint on reality.
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If you don’t like the way the world looks, just give it a different one. It’s like the ultimate pair of rose tinted glasses.