Meta launches Code Llama

Welcome back to The Daily Update — We’re capping off an eventful week in AI with big news from Meta. Here’s the full lineup:

🗞️ The Latest in AI: Meta launches Code Llama

🤖 AI Tool of the Day: Rizzle — Turn your written content into engaging videos

📸 Business Spotlight: Amazon brings AI-powered features to Thursday Night Football

🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

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🗞️ The Latest in AI: Meta launches Code Llama

Meta just released its own AI code-writing tool. Code Llama, built on the company’s Llama 2 large language model, can generate new code and debug human-written work.

Key points:

• Code Llama is free for research and commercial use.

• The tool can create strings of code from prompts or complete and debug code when pointed to a specific string of code.

• Meta released a Python-specialized version called Code Llama-Python and another version called Code Llama-Instrct.

• The company claims Code Llama performed better than publicly available LLMs based on benchmark testing.

The bottom line: Meta has stayed true to its commitment to open-source AI. Code generators have been helping developers for a while now, but we’ll definitely see improved models built on Code Llama.

🤖 AI Tool of the Day: Rizzle — Turn your written content into engaging videos

Rizzle is one of the most impressive text-to-video platforms that I’ve tested. The no-edit video creation platform lets you create high-quality videos from text, URLs, tweets, blogs and prompts.

I can’t share the video I created with Rizzle from a free account, but I can confirm that it outperformed similar text-to-video platforms.

Click here to try Rizzle. Paid plans start at $30 a month.

📸 Business Spotlight: Amazon brings AI-powered features to Thursday Night Football

Amazon Prime Video hopes to give football fans an enhanced viewing experience this fall with new AI-driven features. Prime Video is entering its second year as the exclusive rights holder to the NFL’s Thursday Night Football.

Key Points:

• Amazon introduced AI to TNF last year, giving fans real-time access to live statistics and data.

• The new AI features will live within Prime Vision with Next Gen Stats, TNF’s weekly alternate stream that features graphic overlays.

• The features will roll out on September 14.

Click here to find the full list of new AI-powered features.

The bottom line: A few years ago artificial intelligence and machine learning were unheard of in sports broadcasting. This is one of many industries that may be permanently transformed by AI.

🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

• UCSF Breakthrough: AI allowed a paralyzed woman to speak with facial expressions for the first time in 18 years.

• AI Customer Service: Twilio expands CustomerAI capabilities with generative and predictive AI.

• Group Investment: Google, Amazon, Nvidia and others put $235 million into Hugging Face. The platform hosts popular generative AI models like Stable Diffusion and Llama 2.

• More Big Moves: Modular secures $100 million to build tools to optimize and create AI models. The company is looking to provide a cheaper alternative to AI development for enterprises.

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Jack

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