TL;DR Hey builders, today brings us more news in AI. Apple might ditch its own Siri brain for Google's Gemini AI, signaling a major shift in voice assistant wars, while Meta just teamed up with Midjourney to bring AI image generation to billions. And xAI open-sourced Grok 2.5, promising Grok 3 soon despite some ongoing controversies.
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Apple in talks to use Google's Gemini AI to power revamped Siri, Bloomberg News reports
Apple is considering replacing its in-house Siri engine with Google's Gemini AI due to engineering roadblocks, signaling a major shift in voice assistant strategy.
Source: Reuters | Read more →
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NVIDIA Blackwell-Powered Jetson Thor Now Available, Accelerating the Age of General Robotics
NVIDIA releases the Jetson Thor, a robotics supercomputer with 2,070 teraflops, delivering 7.5x the AI performance to enable real-time complex reasoning in machines.
Source: NVIDIA News | Read more →
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Meta partners with Midjourney to license AI tech for future products
Meta has partnered with Midjourney to license its AI image generation technology, aiming to improve visual AI capabilities across Facebook's apps to compete against OpenAI and Google.
Source: Reuters | Read more →
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Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5
xAI open sourced its Grok 2.5 model weights on Hugging Face and announced plans for Grok 3 within six months, despite facing criticism around the model's output reliability.
Source: TechCrunch | Read more →
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