#ai chatbot

Grok, an AI chatbot by Elon Musk’s xAI, can now understand images and answer users’ questions. You can try the feature only if you’re a paid user of the social platform X (formerly Twitter).

The Gemini 1.5 series is built for diverse tasks: gathering information from PDFs, analyzing code repositories, scanning videos, and creating content from them, among other capabilities.

WhatsApp is testing the Meta AI chatbot among its user base in India and some yet-to-be-revealed regions. Remarkably, more than 500 million of WhatsApp’s 2 billion users worldwide are in India.

Samsung is set to enhance its new Galaxy S24 smartphone series for the Chinese market by integrating Ernie Bot, an AI chatbot developed by China's Baidu. This feature is designed to efficiently handle tasks like summarizing, reorganizing, and translating vast amounts of information. Moreover, the chatbot will include a visual search capability, enabling users to search the internet for items using photos or images.

Through a multi-year AI partnership with Reuters, Meta now empowers its AI chatbot to legally integrate Reuters' copyrighted news coverage in responses to user questions on news and events.

AI chatbot Doubao of the TikTok parent firm (ByteDance) has surpassed its competitor, Baidu's Ernie Bot, in annual iOS downloads (9 million vs. 8 million). This milestone was achieved in less than nine months after the project's launch.

A Canadian court has ordered Air Canada to partially refund the cost of tickets ($482) and pay the legal fees of Jake Moffatt due to misleading information provided by the airline's AI chatbot. The client sought discounted tickets due to a family death and consulted the AI for details.

Under the leadership of Mark Zuckerberg, Meta is charting a new course with its AI-driven chatbot, Meta AI. This innovaton is set to be a fixture in all apps and devices the company releases. With the Llama 2 language model as its base, this chatbot can produce both text and images, providing users with multiple use cases. Celebrity-inspired chatbots for entertainment, with Snoop Dogg among the first, are also in the pipeline.

In the wake of a report by the Alphabet (Google) workers' union, the tech giant finds itself under severe scrutiny due to allegations of violating U.S. labor laws. According to the grievance lodged, Alphabet unlawfully terminated contracts due to union-organizing activities involving a substantial number of employees, including developers of an AI chatbot. Should these charges be corroborated, they could spell considerable legal and reputational ramifications for the company. "It’s obvious that this timing is incredibly suspicious, and that is why we are filing an unfair labor practice charge — to hold Google and Accenture accountable for their behavior," declared Anjail Muhammad, a former Google employee.