10X AI (Issue #8): Multimodal Bing, Image-To-3D, AI Games, and a Bad Bungee Blooper
Plus Merlyn Mind's LLMs for education, Runway's new preview option for Gen-2, and talking to historical landmarks via Bing.
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🗞️AI news
Here are this week’s AI developments.
1. Bing is now officially multimodal!
For well over a week, I’ve been jealously following tweets and posts by
about Bing’s new ability to “see” images. Microsoft had quietly released the feature as a silent preview to a select group of users…and I wasn’t one of them.Imagine my delight when I opened up Bing on Friday and saw this:
I’m yet to find an official announcement about it, but I can only assume image recognition is about to roll out to everyone.
From now on, Bing can recognize what’s in an image and discuss or take action based on this additional source of input. As a quick test, I uploaded a cartoon image from my side-project, AI Jest Daily: