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Microsoft to add 3D avatar to Teams in May
The company originally announced the avatars feature in 2021 and has been testing it privately in recent months, reports The Verge. Microsoft Teams avatars are intended to help people avoid appearing on camera during meetings. If users do not want to appear on video or need a break from constant calls, they can replace it with a 3D avatar that will animate based solely on their vocal cues -- no camera required.
Healthtech platform HealthPlix raises $22 mn in funding drought
The funds will be used to ramp up doctor-first product innovation, enhance the technology stack and scale user acquisition efforts, said the platform. The funding round marks the first health-tech growth stage investment done by venture capitalists in 2023. "Today, we serve 2.5 per cent of the population. With these new funds, we aim to cater to 200-250 million more patient lives in an 18-month time frame," said Sandeep Gudibanda, Co-founder and CEO, HealthPlix Technologies.
Google announces AI features in Gmail, Docs, Sheets, more
With the new AI features, users will be able to draft, reply, summarise and prioritise their Gmail. In Docs, they will get to brainstorm, proofread, write, and rewrite, while in Slides, they will get to bring their creative vision to life with auto-generated images, audio, and video. Moreover, in Sheets, users will be able to go from raw data to insights and analysis via auto-completion, formula generation.
No 'security testing' or 'crackdown' plans for smartphone makers: Govt
Responding to a media report, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, said that there is no "security testing" or "crackdown" plans for smartphone makers at the end of the government. "@GoI_MeitY is 100 per cent committed to 'Ease of Doing Business' and is totally focused on growing electronics manufacturing to touch $300 billion by 2026," the minister said in a tweet.
Engineers who joined in-person perform better than remote workers: Zuckerberg
According to him, the early analysis of performance data suggests that engineers who either joined Meta in-person and then transferred to remote or remained in-person performed better on average than people who joined remotely. This analysis also shows that engineers earlier in their career perform better on average when they.
Anthropic introduces ChatGPT's rival 'Claude'
"Claude is a next-generation AI assistant based on Anthropic's research into training helpful, honest, and harmless AI systems," the company said in a blogpost on Tuesday. The new chatbot is accessible through chat interface and API in the company's developer console, and is capable of a wide variety of conversational and text-processing tasks while maintaining a high degree of reliability and predictability.
Reddit back in order after brief outage
The company tweeted from its 'Reddit Status' account: "Resolved: Alright, things are back in order. We're peeling a lot better now! Thanks for your patience." Taking to Twitter, several users had reported the issue. While one user posted: "Anyone else's Reddit gone down?", another said: "Is Reddit down or is this the universe trying to tell me to get a life?"
OpenAI announces new AI model 'GPT-4' that accepts image, text inputs
"We've created GPT-4, the latest milestone in OpenAI's effort in scaling up deep learning," the company said in a blogpost on Tuesday. We've spent 6 months iteratively aligning GPT-4 using lessons from our adversarial testing program as well as ChatGPT, resulting in our best-ever results on factuality, steerability, and refusing to go
Microsoft's flagship developer conference 'Build' in May, to focus on AI
A Twitter leaker published a marketing image of Microsoft Build dates that is slated to be in-person this time. The company was yet to make the dates of its flagship event official. Last year, Microsoft's annual developer conference Build was limited in-person as well as in full virtual format.
Meta CEO fires 10K more employees, shuts 5K additional open roles
In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg said overall, "we expect to reduce our team size by around 10,000 people and to close around 5,000 additional open roles that we haven't yet hired" in the company's "year of efficiency". In a separate filing with the US SEC, Meta said the new job cuts will lower the high end of its expense guidance for the year by $3 billion.
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