Meta’s AI tools for advertisers can now create full new images

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1. Meta’s AI tools for advertisers can now create full new images

Meta is expanding its AI tools for advertisers, allowing them to create full new images instead of just new backgrounds. Advertisers can request full image variations, offering AI-inspired ideas for the overall photo, including riffs that update the subject or product being advertised. This could be abused by advertisers to dupe consumers into buying products that don't actually exist.

Meta also allows advertisers to add text overlays on their AI-generated images and offers image expansion, which leverages AI to help advertisers adjust their image assets to fit across different aspect ratios.

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2. OpenAI brings custom tech to this year’s Met Gala Exhibition

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is partnering with OpenAI to create a custom chatbot installation for its annual spring Costume Institute exhibition, "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion." The chatbot, built using OpenAI's GPT-4 technology, will take on the persona of Natalie Potter and answer visitors' questions about her life and dress.

The installation will also feature a QR code for visitors to chat with her via text. The collaboration comes as organizations grapple with the potential impact of AI on various sectors, including jobs, national security, business transformation, and scientific discovery.

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3. Red Hat unveils RHEL AI and InstructLab to democratize enterprise AI

Red Hat has unveiled RHEL AI and InstructLab to democratize enterprise AI. RHEL AI is a foundation model platform for developing and running open source language models, while InstructLab is a community project enabling domain experts to enhance AI models.

Red Hat stands out from competitors by being focused on open source and a hybrid approach, optimizing performance across different hardware stacks, and retaining customer IP ownership. The new platform combines open source language models with tools from the InstructLab project, providing an optimized RHEL operating system image with hardware acceleration support and enterprise technical support.

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4. Stanford AI leader Fei-Fei Li building 'spatial intelligence' startup

Stanford AI leader Fei-Fei Li is developing a startup that uses human-like processing of visual data to make artificial intelligence capable of advanced reasoning. The company raised funding in a recent seed funding round, with investors including Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz and Canadian firm Radical Ventures.

Li, known as the "godmother of AI," has developed algorithms that can extrapolate images and text in three-dimensional environments and act upon those predictions using "spatial intelligence." She co-directs Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute and has led AI at Google Cloud and advised policymakers.

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5. OpenAI partners with People publisher Dotdash Meredith

OpenAI is partnering with People publisher Dotdash Meredith to license its content for ChatGPT training. The publisher will use the AI company's models to enhance its in-house ad-targeting tool, which will display content and links attributed to Dotdash Meredith's publications. This move follows allegations of unauthorized content use by the New York Times, Alden Capital Group, Comedian Sarah Silverman, and a conspiracy-mongering car salesman.

OpenAI's CEO, Neil Vogel, praised the partnership and said it was a testament to OpenAI's efforts to partner with creators and publishers. Dotdash Meredith will also use OpenAI's models to boost its D/Cipher ad-targeting tool, which connects advertisers directly to consumers without using personal identifiers like cookies.

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