Samsung will reportedly bring generative AI tech to its virtual assistant Bixby. According to a top executive, the company is "working so hard" to make it happen, but there is no official timeline for now. Samsung's assistant is a core product available for TVs and digital appliances, meaning the Korean maker is looking to improve its chatbot and implement a cross-device solution. Bixby has been part of Galaxy smartphones for the past seven years, starting with the launch of the Galaxy S8 flagships. It brought a number of groundbreaking functions for the time, like live translations...
Samsung will reportedly bring generative AI tech to its virtual assistant Bixby. According to a top executive, the company is "working so hard" to make it happen, but there is no official timeline for now. Samsung's assistant is a core product available for TVs and digital appliances, meaning the Korean maker is looking to improve its chatbot and implement a cross-device solution. Bixby has been part of Galaxy smartphones for the past seven years, starting with the launch of the Galaxy S8 flagships. It brought a number of groundbreaking functions for the time, like live translations...
The nubia Z60 Ultra just got a special Photographer Edition makeover with a revised design inspired by traditional cameras. Nubia went with a dual-tone look incorporating both vegan leather and glass on the back of the Z60 Ultra Photograph Edition achieved with a special micro etching process. The other new bits include several AI optimizations for photography including the option to fine-tune image processing and the ability to remove unwanted objects from shots. Z60 Ultra Photography Edition also brings generative AI image features and real-time language translation for calls and...
Yesterday a report from China claimed that Apple decided to use Baidu developed generative AI services in China, but now it looks like someone might have jumped the gun on that. According to a new report today, also from China, the deal isn't done, at least not yet. Talks may be ongoing, or not - this report doesn't go into much more detail than saying there is at this point no deal. If Apple does in the end agree to use Baidu's generative AI services for the Chinese market, this will be baked into iOS 18 scheduled to release to the masses this fall. Apple can't really go with...
Yesterday a report from China claimed that Apple decided to use Baidu developed generative AI services in China, but now it looks like someone might have jumped the gun on that. According to a new report today, also from China, the deal isn't done, at least not yet. Talks may be ongoing, or not - this report doesn't go into much more detail than saying there is at this point no deal. If Apple does in the end agree to use Baidu's generative AI services for the Chinese market, this will be baked into iOS 18 scheduled to release to the masses this fall. Apple can't really go with...
Qualcomm just unveiled the third generation of its mid-tier and premium audio chipsets – the Qualcomm S3 Gen 3 and S5 Gen 3. These come to replace the Gen 2 models that were first announced in 2022. Both bring more processing power – including AI acceleration for the S5 chip – improvements to audio quality and can be used in products that are part of the Qualcomm Voice & Music Extension Program (more on that in a bit). First things first. The Qualcomm S5 Gen 3 now features a 200MHz CPU (up from 80MHz on Gen 2) and a new 350MHz DSP (up from dual 240MHz). There is also 1.5x more memory than...
The nubia Z60 Ultra cameraphone was released in the closing days of 2023 with unique 35 mm primary camera and slid all-round specs. The phone now gets a new version with new design and extra AI camera features that will go on sale starting March 28. The full name is nubia Z60 Ultra Photographer Edition and the design of the back panel strongly reminds us of a point and shoot camera of the near past. nubia Z60 Ultra Photographer Edition The photography theme also underlines that the phone is another installment is a series of very capable cameraphones, folling the nubia Z50...
During its GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia announced the world's most powerful chip for AI-related computing called GB200 powering up the Blackwell B200 GPU. It's a successor to the H100 AI chip and offers huge improvements in performance and efficiency. The new B200 GPU is capable of 20 petaflops of FP4 thanks to the 208 billion transistors inside the chip. Additionally, the GB200 has 30 times the performance of H100 in LLM inference workloads while reducing the energy consumption 25-fold. In the GPT-3 LLM benchmark, the GB200 is seven times faster than the H100 too. For...
The PlayStation 5 launched in late 2020, though it feels like it arrived later due to supply issues. A Pro model will reportedly arrive four years later with a much improved GPU, AI acceleration and other enhancements. The GPU will be the biggest upgrade on the PS5 Pro. Rumors claim up to 45% higher rasterization performance and 33.5 TFLOPs of compute power. Future SDK versions will support resolutions up to 8K and higher frame rates with 4K @ 120fps and 8K @ 60fps being possible. Ray tracing performance is set to include 2-3 times, even 4 times on some occasions. This is thanks to a...
Back in mid-February, OpenAI unveiled Sora, its generative AI model that creates videos from text prompts or even a still image and can also edit videos or extend them by filling in or adding frames. Amazing as the demos were, there was no solid launch date for the general public - all we were told was that Sora was being tested by experts who were carrying out tests and were assessing the model for potential risks ahead of launch. Today thanks to an interview by OpenAI's Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati we know that it's only a matter of months - Sora will be released later this year....