10X AI (Issue #39): Open AI's Sora, Google's Gemini 1.5, Stable Cascade, and a "Hand Ox?"
PLUS: ChatGPT memory, Reka Flash, NVIDIA's Chat with RTX, Slack's AI assistant, Cohere's Aya, and Amazon's BASE TTS model
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Here are this week’s AI developments.
1. Gemini 1.5 can handle up to 10 million tokens
After finally releasing Gemini Ultra to the public last week, Google just followed up with a knockout punch by announcing Gemini 1.5.
Gemini 1.5. uses a mixture-of-experts architecture to achieve higher efficiency.
But the most noteworthy thing about Gemini 1.5 is the 10-million-token context window (in internal testing). For reference, the current undisputed Context Window Champion is Claude 2.1 with 200K tokens.
More impressively, Gemini 1.5 can successfully pass the “Needle In A Haystack” test, finding a specific short text string within 1 million tokens 99% of the time.
To see what the increased context window combined with Gemini’s native mu…