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Bird Buddy , known for its innovative connected bird feeder camera, has unveiled "Name That Bird," a new AI-powered feature aimed at bird enthusiasts. This feature allows users to name and track individual birds visiting their feeders, enhancing the emotional connection with backyard wildlife. The Michigan-based startup's CEO, Franci Zidar, highlighted the...

Captions , a New York-based startup specializing in AI-powered video editing, has secured $60 million in series C funding led by Index Ventures. The investment round, which includes participation from Adobe Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, and existing backers such as Kleiner Perkins and Andreessen Horowitz, brings Captions ' valuation to $500 million. Founded...

Meta's Fundamental AI Research team has unveiled four new AI models aimed at empowering researchers and developers to integrate advanced AI capabilities into their applications. Published on the arXiv preprint server, the team's paper introduces JASCO, AudioSeal, and two versions of Chameleon, highlighting their diverse functionalities and applications. JA...

Researchers from MIT CSAIL, the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, and Dartmouth College have introduced LangNav, a pioneering method that leverages natural language instructions instead of traditional visual processing to enhance robot navigation capabilities. In their recently published paper, the researchers propose converting visual information into text captions,...

Apple has announced plans to extend the availability of its high-end mixed reality headset, Vision Pro, to new markets including China, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Canada, France, and the U.K. starting mid-July. The Vision Pro, priced from $3,499 with storage options between 256GB to 1TB, was previously exclusive to the U.S., where it saw rapid success, se...

Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team has introduced Chameleon, a new family of multimodal AI models that seamlessly integrate visual and textual information. Designed to perform a variety of tasks, Chameleon excels in areas such as answering questions about visuals and generating image captions. Chameleon’s capabilities include generating both text-b...