Issue #18: Mistral's Codestral👩💻, Starship Prepares for Reentry🚀, Truecaller's AI Greetings📞, Perplexity Pages🔍
Get set for a tech news wave this Sunday morning! major updates await. Grab your mug, coffee, and dive into the latest tech buzz! ☕📱💻
Mistral launches Codestral, a generative AI model for coding👩💻
Codestral, Mistral's latest AI model for coding, supports over 80 programming languages, assisting developers in tasks like code completion and testing. However, its commercial use is limited by licensing. Mistral integrates Codestral into its Le Chat platform and offers it via API. The model's versatility and integration highlight Mistral's strategic efforts to leverage AI in software development while navigating licensing constraints.
Truecaller Introduces AI-Powered Greetings: Answer Calls with Your (Almost) Own Voice📞🤖
Truecaller has launched an innovative feature for paid users, utilizing AI-powered greetings generated from a digital version of their voice in collaboration with Microsoft's Personal Voice technology. Users record a brief script to create their own unique digital voice for the Truecaller Assistant to greet callers. Restrictions on pre-recorded greetings aim to prevent misuse, allowing users to personalize responses. Microsoft's technology adds watermarks to ensure security by detecting synthetic speech.
Perplexity AI Unveils "Perplexity Pages": Turning Research into Shareable Guides📚
Perplexity AI joins the trend of AI-powered summaries with "Perplexity Pages." Users can create reports or guides based on prompts and choose an audience level. The AI generates a page with various sections and media and allows for customization. These shareable pages are searchable and foster discussion. Perplexity sees this as information curation, not AI-generated content. It's initially for a limited number of web users.
Starship Soars! SpaceX Prepares for Epic Reentry Test🚀
SpaceX isn't wasting any time! Having successfully launched Starship to orbit on a previous mission, they're gearing up for their fourth Starship flight, with liftoff targeted for June 5th, 2024. This time, the big focus is on the reusable heat shield. They'll be attempting the first full reentry and landing, a crucial step towards Starship's ultimate goal of taking people and cargo to the Moon, Mars, and beyond!
In today’s TWT picks, let’s discuss YOLOv10!
YOLOv10 is a real-time object detection model introduced in the "YOLOv10: Real-Time End-to-End Object Detection" paper.
YOLOv10, released on May 23, 2024, is a real-time object detection model developed by researchers from Tsinghua University. YOLOv10 is part of a long line of YOLO models developed by authors from various research groups and organizations. YOLOv10 currently represents the state-of-the-art in object detection, with lower latency than previous YOLO models and fewer parameters.
Here's how to fine-tune a YOLOv10 model with the code released by the Tsinghua University research team, as described in this roboflow blog. Here is the link for more.