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What is Microsoft’s new image-to-video AI model VASA-1?

April 23, 2024

Microsoft’s newly introduced VASA-1 AI model represents a significant advancement in the field of generative artificial intelligence. This AI model has the capability to produce hyper-realistic talking faces from just a single portrait photo and a corresponding speech audio track. ..

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Meta Launches Advanced AI Assistant Powered by Llama 3

April 19, 2024

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has announced the launch of its new artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, Meta AI. Powered by the company’s latest AI model, Llama 3, Meta AI is integrated into Meta’s popular social ..

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India’s Proposed Deal with Nvidia

April 18, 2024

India is considering striking a deal with Nvidia, the US-based manufacturer of graphics processing units (GPUs), to source GPUs and offer them to local startups, researchers, and academic institutions at subsidized rates. This initiative is part of India’s ₹10,000 crore ..

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Coffee’s Prehistoric Origins Revealed Through Genome Sequencing

April 18, 2024

A report has highlighted the ancient origins of Coffea arabica, the world’s most popular coffee species, through genome sequencing. The findings suggest that Arabica coffee developed over 600,000 years ago in the forests of Ethiopia via natural hybridization between two ..

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Gaia BH3: Most Massive Stellar Black Hole in the Milky Way Discovered

April 17, 2024

Astronomers have found the most massive stellar-mass black hole ever detected in our galaxy, the Milky Way. Named Gaia BH3, this black hole is located approximately 2,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Aquila, making it the second-closest known ..

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What is Hubble Tension?

April 16, 2024

Scientists from Germany and the U.K. have proposed a radical explanation for the discrepancy in measurements of the universe’s expansion rate, known as the Hubble tension.  The Hubble Constant, denoted as H0, is a fundamental parameter in cosmology that describes ..

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