10X AI (Issue #24): Fuyu-8B, PlayHT Turbo, Two Fun Tools, and a Multitalented Bear
PLUS: Google's language learning, Pi with Internet access, Claude worldwide, new Midjourney upscalers, and getting better images out of DALL-E 3.
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Welcome back to 10X AI: a weekly look at beginner-focused AI news, tools, and tips.
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🗞️ AI news
This week, instead of one or two blockbuster announcements from major companies, we’ve had a lot of smaller ones.
1. New Fuyu-8B multimodal model
For free ChatGPT users with no access to ChatGPT Vision, there are an increasing number of free alternatives lately.
This week, a company called Adept released Fuyu-8B, the smallest of their multimodal models. The model is fast and performs well across image question-answer benchmarks:
It appears to be quite accurate in my anecdotal testing: