Mon Oct 23

• China’s Tech Titans Race To Invest $340m In OpenAi Challenger

• Google To Use Gen-AI For Government Welfare Schemes In India

• AI News Anchors Are Here

• Anti-ChatGPT App Superfy Uses AI To Match People For Live Chats

Anti-ChatGPT App Superfy Uses AI To Match People For Live Chats: A mobile app called Superfy is looking to use AI to better connect its users to other people for answers like in Quora or Reddit. Originally envisioned as a sort of “Quora on steroids,” Tel Aviv-based Superfy was launched in 2021 by married couple Michal Tamir and Gil Schoenberg, who previously worked together at the Israeli-based data analytics company Treato. The system uses a fully proprietary AI technology, Matchpoint AI, built on top of open source LLMs to enable the matches. Its machine learning algorithms and AI models match users based on a variety of factors, including not only who’s online right now, but also if they typically use the app at a certain time of day, if they tend to answer a lot of questions and if they have expertise that’s relevant to the specific query. The system involves an auto-generated dynamic database that identifies patterns within users’ discussions, instead of using classic NLP (Natural Language Processing) methods and pre-indexed dictionaries.

China’s Tech Titans Race To Invest $340m In OpenAi Challenger: In the high-stakes game of AI poker, while the U.S. boasts bigwigs like OpenAI, China's got its own wild card: Zhipu AI. Raking in a cool $340 million this year, this Tsinghua University gem, led by the esteemed Professor Tang Jie, is not here to play! As Biden tightens the Nvidia chip purse strings, Zhipu's strategy? Hoarding chips like they're golden poker chips! Forget USD; they're rolling in yuan now. Thanks, geopolitical tiff! And while Biden's trying to put the AI brakes on China, Zhipu's bankrolling from the who's who of China tech, including the rare Alibaba-Tencent duo. Their latest showstopper? ChatGLM-6B, a sassy bilingual AI model. Move over OpenAI; there's a new player in town! 🃏💰🤖

Google To Use Gen-AI For Government Welfare Schemes In India: Google's shaking things up in India with a sprinkle of generative AI magic! At its swanky Google for India event, they unveiled a smorgasbord of AI-driven tools. Ever been lost in the maze of government schemes? Fret not! Google's here to serve up crisp summaries of over 100 government-led schemes. Plus, you can pick your language - Hindi or English! Got saree woes? Now, when you ask Google "How to drape a saree?", expect snazzy step-by-step instructions and videos showcasing those drapey delights. And if you're pondering the wheelchair-friendliness of Jaipur fort, Google's AI search will dish out handy user reviews to guide your way. They've even sprinkled some of that AI magic on Maps, marking wheelchair-friendly spots and shopping routes. Google's making the search experience in India more vibrant, visual, and valuable! 🕌👗🔍🇮🇳

AI News Anchors Are Here: A “virtual human” designed by South Korean AI company Pulse9, Zae-In spent five months this year reading live news bulletins on national broadcaster SBS. Are things really that simple? Since spring, country after country have debuted their first AI news anchor: India has Sana and Lisa, Greece has Hermes, Kuwait has Fedha and Taiwan has Ni Zhen. “She is bright, gorgeous, ageless, tireless and speaks multiple languages, and is totally under my control,” said Kalli Purie, the vice chairperson of the India Today Group, when Sana first appeared in March. Time also needs to pass before anchors are largely replaced by AI. For now, news anchors will remain largely human, though their days may be numbered. Yet just because AI anchors haven’t fully been realised yet doesn’t mean they won’t be. Pulse9 has now created AI voices for three of IITERNITI’s members (including Zae-In) and debuted them in a mid-October concert. Meanwhile, the New York Times reported in July that Google is currently testing an AI named Genesis that can write news articles. So yeah, get ready for the robots to tell us what's cooking in the world.