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Generative AI updates: Meet Sora, RTX, and Claude

Correspondent TCP February 21, 2024

Three important announcements happened in the Generative AI space recently. Let’s take a look at all of them.

OpenAI’s Sora

The first, and the most widely discussed launch was Sora. Sora is a video generator launched by Open AI – the company that powers Chat GPT, Dall-e, and now, Sora. ChatGPT is a text based AI engine, Dall-e generates images based on user prompts, and Sora generates up to 60 second videos based on a text description given by the user.

In the launch post on February 15, Open AI wrote on X (earlier called Twitter):

Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model. Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions.

Users have, since then, posted very detailed, realistic videos.

You can access Sora here: https://openai.com/sora

NVIDIAs’ RTX

NVIDIA is an American company that is famous for designing and manufacturing GPS (Graphical Processing Units), high-capacity chips, and other components for computers.

On February 13, it announced the launch of RTX.

Here is why RTX is different and merits a mention.

1. RTX is trained on Mistral or Llama 2 – both open source datasets.

2. It runs on the user’s own computer and searches the user’s own files.

3. Since all conversations are on the local computer, nothing generated by the user is shared with a larger dataset, and there is no violation of user privacy.

Think of it as a giant indexing engine on your own computer.

4. Because it runs on a single computer and loads LLMs on the machine, the download size is 35 GB!

5. Many early users have indicated that the software is clunky, hard to use, and crashes.

You can download the RTX here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-on-rtx/chat-with-rtx-generative-ai/

Claude: The AI with a Constitution

While Sora and RTX are unique because of their capabilities, Claude is unique because of the way the engine is designed.

Claude is built by a company called Anthropic – a US-based startup founded by Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei – who are siblings and worked with Open AI earlier.

Claude is based on Constitutional AI – A set of values that define what the AI engine should do in terms of political, violent, and explicit content.

Is a constitution like the conscience of an AI engine?

If we want to think of an AI engine as if it is a human mind, yes, that comes closest to describing the Constitution. But a more accurate description would be an elaborate set of Dos and Don’ts that the engine follows.

Claude has both a free and a paid version. The Paid version allows users to ask detailed questions and get relevant answers.

Claude can be accessed here: https://claude.ai/