AI roundup: AMD-powered AI chips from Microsoft, AI features revealed at Google I/O 2024, and more
Google I/O 2024: AI Features Unveiled During the annual Google I/O developer conference, held on May 14, 2024, Google made significant announcements related to artificial intelligence (AI). One of the key highlights was the introduction of Project Astra, a next-generation AI assistant. Led by Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, Project Astra aims to develop universal AI agents that can be helpful in everyday life. Additionally, Google unveiled updates across its Gemini family of models, including the new 1.5 Flash, optimized for speed and efficiency. The 1.5 Flash model is lighter-weight than its predecessor, 1.5 Pro, yet highly capable of multimodal reasoning and features a breakthrough long context window. It excels at tasks such as summarization, chat applications, image and video captioning, and data extraction from long documents and tables. Microsoft Offers an AMD Alternative to Nvidia AI Processors Microsoft has recently announced the launch of its custom AI proce...