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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google details AlphaCode 2, an update to AlphaCode, announced in February 2022, powered by Gemini that beats ~85% of competitors in Codeforces competitions  —  Alongside its Gemini generative AI model, Google this morning took the wraps off of AlphaCode 2, an improved version … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: UK carrier EE launches broadband TV platform EE TV, to replace the BT TV service, partnering with Apple to offer an Apple TV 4K with a custom EE remote control  —  EE TV, a new broadband TV platform from EE, today launched as a BT TV replacement service in the UK, offering subscribers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta plans to fix a months-long bug that has caused many Instagram videos posted between June 2013 and October 2014 to lose their audio, but offers no timeframe  —  Many of the earliest Instagram videos have lost their sound.  More than a year of videos posted to the platform are now silent … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: Google announces Gemini, a new AI model with three tiers, Ultra, Pro, and Nano, and plans a paid version in 2024; Google says Gemini beats GPT-4 on some tests  —  Starting today, Gemini is running on Bard and Google’s Pixel 8 Pro phones.  The company says it blows OpenAI out of the water. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mia Sato / The Verge: TikTok releases its 2023 list of top videos and trends, again showing how disparate users’ individual experiences are on the app and how siloed its content is  —  It’s the most wonderful time of the year: when TikTok publishes its annual roundup of the biggest hits, and I get to see what everyone else … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: Google updates Bard to use its new Gemini Pro model, the middle tier of the Gemini series, and says its the “biggest and best upgrade yet” and can match ChatGPT  —  While OpenAI’s ChatGPT has become a worldwide phenomenon and one of the fastest-growing consumer products ever … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google announces its new Cloud TPU v5p, an updated version of its Cloud TPU v5e, consisting of 8,960 chips; Google trained Gemini on the new custom chips  —  Google today announced the launch of its new Gemini large language model (LLM) and with that, the company also launched its new Cloud TPU v5p … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: Google plans to add Gemini Nano, its native, local-first LLM, to Pixel 8 Pro, powering auto-summarize in Recorder and Smart Reply, ahead of an Android launch  —  Gemini may be the biggest, most powerful large language model, or LLM, Google has ever developed, but it’s better suited to running in data centers than on your phone. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mia Sato / The Verge: TikTok releases its 2023 list of top videos and trends, again showing how disparate users’ individual experiences on the app are and how siloed the content is  —  It’s the most wonderful time of the year: when TikTok publishes its annual roundup of the biggest hits, and I get to see what everyone else … Lees verder op Tech Meme

TIME: Interviews with Sam Altman and 20 people in his circle reveal a complicated portrait of being brilliant but slippery, as Time names him CEO of the Year 2023  —  Sam Altman photographed in San Francisco, Calif. on Nov. 8Photograph by Joe Pugliese for TIME … Normally, the CEO of OpenAI flies home to St. Louis to visit family. Lees verder op Tech Meme