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TechRepublic’s 10 Biggest AI Stories That Dominated the Year

TechRepublic’s 10 Biggest AI Stories That Dominated the Year

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Generative AI became ubiquitous in 2024, becoming a fixture in laptops, smartphones, and everyday tech. With the rise of multimodal models, generative AI broke new ground, processing text, video, images, and audio — and even delivering outputs seamlessly combining these formats. As 2024 approaches, TechRepublic revisits the biggest generative AI stories of the year. 1. NVIDIA AI architecture sold out NVIDIA was a clear winner in the AI space this year. Introduced in March, the Blackwell chip became the gold standard in GPU microarchitecture for processing large amounts of information. Blackwell enables AI training, research, and computing for Amazon Web Services, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and xAI, among others. As of October, Blackwell chips sold out through the following year, as these processors were popular purchases among companies. In March, sales of NVIDIA’s Hopper chips helped the company reach $2 trillion in market capitalization. NVIDIA became one of the three most valuable companies worldwide, alongside Microsoft and Apple. AMD and Intel also provide AI accelerator chips, although their businesses haven’t experienced the same explosive growth …

Meta challenges OpenAI’s Sora with Movie Gen video model: What is it?

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Meta seems to be leaving no stone unturned in its bid to dominate the AI landscape. On Friday, the Mark Zuckerberg-led tech giant announced that it had created a new AI model named Movie Gen which can generate realistic video and audio clips in response to prompts. The company claims that it can rival some of the most capable AI video tools from the likes of OpenAI and ElevenLabs. This development comes months after OpenAI introduced its video model Sora to the world. Even though Sora is not yet out in public, demos shared by OpenAI created a frenzy on the internet especially owing to its hyperrealistic footage and motion that seemed straight out of Hollywood. What is Movie Gen? Meta’s Movie Gen generates videos with the help of text inputs and it can even edit existing footage or still images. Reportedly, the audio added to the video is also generated by AI and this is in sync with the visual. Meta’s AI model also allows users to generate videos in different aspect ratios. “Our …

OpenAI’s Video-Making Service Under Data Privacy Scrutiny in EU

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OpenAI faces further scrutiny from Italy’s data protection watchdog over concerns that the firm’s new artificial intelligence video creation system would process people’s personal data. It’s the second time OpenAI has come to the attention of the Italian regulator, which is already investigating possible data violations by the tech company’s ChatGPT tool.  OpenAI is now facing new pressure from the Italian regulator, which said in a statement on Friday that it’s given the firm 20 days to provide information about its new AI service, called Sora, which can quickly create videos up to a minute in length.  This is necessary “given the possible implications that the Sora service could have on the processing of users’ personal data in the European Union and in Italy in particular,” the Italian regulator said, adding that it’s also asked whether “the new AI model is already available to the public and whether it is or will be offered to users in the European Union, particularly in Italy.” San Francisco-based OpenAI is backed by Microsoft, which along with Alphabet’s Google …