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Microsoft AI News: Week Ending 04/19/2024

April 19, 2024

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“Big day for unexpectedly powerful LLM releases. Microsoft’s open source WizardLM 2 (also note that it used synthetic inputs in training, maybe “running out of data” will not be a big deal): https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1779988132055884205

VASA-1 – Microsoft Research Given such context, we have no plans to release an online demo, API, product, additional implementation details, or any related offerings until we are certain that the technology will be used responsibly and in accordance with proper regulations. – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

“A stunning, new model by Microsoft Research just got presented. It’s single portrait photo + speech audio to hyper-realistic talking face video. 9 example outputs and how it works: https://twitter.com/_Borriss_/status/1780799789837303986

“Ultra realistic AI-video from a photo This is VASA-1 from Microsoft research The improvements in quality we’re getting between each new release is incredible. Links below https://twitter.com/LinusEkenstam/status/1780754955441209750

Microsoft and G42 partner to accelerate AI innovation in UAE and beyond – The Official Microsoft Blog – https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/04/15/microsoft-and-g42-partner-to-accelerate-ai-innovation-in-uae-and-beyond/

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