10X AI (Issue #37): Bard Upgrades, Midjourney News, Arc Search, and a Rocket Man
PLUS: Amazon's new shopping assistant Rufus, Shopify's upcoming AI image editor, Meta's Code Llama 70B, and more AI voices.
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Welcome back to 10X AI: a weekly look at generative AI news, tools, and tips for the average user.
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🗞️ AI news
Here are this week’s AI developments.
1. Bard gets better
Google is staying in the AI headlines for the second week in a row.
This week, Google’s Bard chatbot has gotten a few serious upgrades:
Gemini Pro shenanigans
Bard is now powered by Google Gemini Pro not only in the US but in 40+ languages and 230+ countries and territories. (See the full list.)
In related news, Gemini Pro itself soared in the Chatbot Arena rankings to become the second-best-rated model after GPT-4-Turbo.1
Imagen 2 shenanigans
Bard can now also generate images using Google’s impressive Imagen 2 model.
But funnily enough, Bard didn’t get the memo yet.
Here’s Bard gaslighting me: