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• Meet OpenAI’s Canvas Feature

• Microsoft Unveils Drasi for Big Data

• BFL Launches Flux 1.1 Pro

• US’s Unexpected AI Leaders

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Open AI Launches ChatGPT’s Interactive Editing Tool

OpenAI is launching "Canvas," a new ChatGPT feature allowing users to edit and modify specific sections of chatbot responses in a side-by-side panel. Built on the GPT-4o model, Canvas enables targeted changes without regenerating entire outputs. It supports writing and coding, offering tailored views for each: a document-like interface for text and a coding view with line numbers. Users can directly edit or highlight text to prompt refinements, with shortcuts for adjusting length, tone, and adding polish. Canvas also allows bug fixes, code translations, and reviews. Rolling out to ChatGPT Plus and Teams users, it will expand to Enterprise and Edu tiers soon.

Microsoft Unveils Drasi: Revolutionizing Big Data Processing

Microsoft has introduced Drasi, an open-source data processing system designed to simplify event-driven architectures in complex infrastructures like IoT and smart buildings. Drasi continuously monitors data sources, evaluating state changes through predefined queries, and automates reactions when conditions are met. This eliminates inefficient polling and reduces performance bottlenecks in large-scale systems. Described by Azure CTO Mark Russinovich as "a new category of data processing system," Drasi’s key innovation is its use of continuous queries to streamline reactive processes. Released alongside Radius, Microsoft’s open application platform, Drasi highlights the company’s commitment to open-source cloud computing.

Flux 1.1 Pro Speeds Text to Image Generation

Black Forest Labs (BFL), the creators behind Stable Diffusion, has launched Flux 1.1 Pro, a faster text-to-image model offering six times the generation speed of its predecessor. Alongside the model, BFL introduced a paid API, enabling developers to integrate Flux into their applications. Available through platforms like together.ai and Replicate, Flux 1.1 Pro is positioned as a premium tool for businesses seeking high-quality image generation. Flux 1.1 Pro also holds the highest ELO score on Artificial Analysis’ image benchmark. Pricing starts at $0.04 per image. BFL plans to expand into text-to-video systems, furthering its influence in the generative AI space while attracting top talent to join its growing team.

Walmart, Wells Fargo Among Top AI Innovators

A new Georgetown University analysis ranks unexpected companies like Walmart, Ford, and Wells Fargo among the top AI leaders in the U.S., alongside tech giants like IBM, Amazon, and Alphabet. IBM leads in AI patents, Amazon has the largest AI workforce, and Microsoft excels in AI research. While Amazon lacks a flagship AI tool like ChatGPT, its dominance in AI cloud infrastructure through AWS highlights its potential. The analysis, based on patents, hiring, and published AI research, also features financial institutions like Capital One and Bank of America in the top ranks. Globally, China’s Baidu and Tencent are closely trailing IBM in AI patent approvals, underscoring the rise of international competition in AI innovation.

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Google will start displaying ads in AI Overviews, its AI-generated search summaries, and will include links to relevant web pages within some of these summaries.

Poolside, an AI-powered software development platform, raised $500 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Ventures, bringing its valuation to $3 billion.

Tim Brooks, co-lead on OpenAI's video generator Sora, has left to join Google DeepMind, where he'll focus on video generation technologies and "world simulators."

Abu Dhabi’s ADQ partnered with Switzerland’s EQTY Lab to implement AI technologies, launching ClimateGPT to tackle climate change, with significant economic impact projected by 2030.

Shanghai-based robotics company Fourier launches GR-2, the latest in its GRx humanoid robot series, featuring significant hardware, design, and software upgrades for advanced capabilities. 

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Google Lens Introduces Real-Time Video Search 

Google has upgraded its Lens app with near-real-time video analysis, allowing users to ask questions about their surroundings. To use this feature, Android and iOS users with the Google app can record videos through Lens by holding the shutter button and asking questions. AI Overviews, powered by Google’s Gemini model, will then analyze specific frames to provide relevant answers. Additionally, Lens can now search using both images and text. Users can take a photo, ask a question, and get results on-screen. Lens also offers new e-commerce features, displaying product information, prices, and deals when identifying products in images. To access the video analysis feature, users must join Google’s Search Labs program and opt into “AI Overviews and more.”