Google Brings AI Search to India, Baidu Unveils Ernie Bot: 5 Highlights
Big tech companies made significant progress in generative artificial intelligence on the final day of August. Google extended its AI-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE), also known as SGE, to India and made it accessible through Google’s Search Labs. Additionally, Baidu, China’s leading search engine, released its AI chatbot Ernie to the public, which quickly became the most popular free app on Apple’s App Store in China. These developments and more are covered in today’s AI roundup. Let’s delve into the details.
Google brings AI-powered search to India
Today, Google expanded its AI-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) to two more countries, India and Japan. The two countries have also become the first outside the United States to receive the SGE feature. The feature is available through Google Search Labs and users can sign up for it. The feature will be added as an optional service, which means people will have to enable the feature on their Google search engine.
Baidu launches Ernie chatbot
On the same day that Google brought its SGE to India and Japan, China’s largest search platform Baidu also launched its own generative AI chatbot, Ernie. Like other popular chatbots, it can also respond to users and respond in both text and image formats, according to a Times of India report. Interestingly, soon after the release, the official app of the Ernie chatbot became the most downloaded free app in the Chinese App Store.
World map of renewable energy projects powered by artificial intelligence
The Allen Institute for AI has launched an AI tool called Satlas, which has now launched AI-powered renewable energy projects and trees around the world. This map is called the first of its kind, reports The Verge. The source of the map was satellite images from the European Space Station’s Sentinel-2 satellites. However, the pictures taken were blurry. This is where Satlas comes in. Using artificial intelligence capabilities, it uses a feature called super-resolution to create a detailed and high-resolution image of the world.
Israeli AI startup AI21 raises $155 million in funding
Israel-based Natural Language Processing (NLP) startup AI21 has raised $155 million in Series C funding, raising its valuation to $1.4 billion, according to a Times of Israel report. The funding round was led by Walden Catalyst, Pitango, SCB10X, b2venture, Samsung Next and others.
“AI21 Labs is pure AI because it develops and owns the foundation of models that serve as a platform for developers and businesses, while also developing derivatives like Wordtune directly for end users,” said AI21 founder Prof. Amnon Shashua. .
Artificial intelligence app BeFake raises $3 million in funding
An AI-powered social networking app called BeFake has raised $3 million in seed funding, according to a TechCrunch report. The platform, as its name suggests, is inspired by BeReal, an app that asks users to snap a real picture of themselves every day. It has the same concept, but instead of taking real photos, the app asks users to mix it with artificial intelligence to create cool and unique art.
