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Catch up on the latest in 🇮🇳 Indian 🇮🇳 startups and tech landscape - all in 5 minutes. [Newsletter Banner] Welcome to NextBigWhat AI Newsetter - the perfect mix of AI products, insights and short news. Help us reach your your friends and colleagues! Share the NextBigWhat newsletter. [Tweet it]( [Whatsapp]( Wanna create AI images with consistent characters (and full control)? Use RenderNet.AI Rendernet.AI is an advanced AI tool that helps you create visuals with consistent characters while offering detailed control over their poses, composition, and styles. Looking for Character consistency? Facelock's your new best friend, making sure your virtual faces stay put across all your creations. Need that perfect pose? ControlNet's here, letting you steer the ship by using a reference image to dictate the pose. [Get it]( / [Discuss](. Andrej Karpathy on AI infra of the future, making AI accessible Transformer is kind of designed for the GPU…we want an architecture that is fundamentally extremely parallelizable. – Andrej Karpathy In a conversation between Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and former Sr. Director of AI at Tesla, and Stephanie Zhan at Sequoia Capital’s AI Ascent, key insights into the future of the AI ecosystem, the importance of open-source models, and the need for innovation and ethical considerations in AI were discussed. [Read it.]( AI News OpenAI introduces voice cloning technology with cautious approach - OpenAI’s ‘Voice Engine’ can clone voices using a short audio sample and text, but isn’t publicly available due to deepfake concerns. - The technology is being tested for educational and healthcare applications, with strict rules against impersonation. AI firms face data drought, seek novel sources for model training - AI companies are depleting internet resources for training data, pushing them to explore alternative sources like synthetic data. - Some firms, including startups by former tech giants’ employees, aim to develop AI models using less data amidst growing concerns over data sustainability. Google’s AI chief warns of excessive hype in AI investment, comparing it to crypto - Google’s AI chief, Demis Hassabis, expresses concern that the billions invested in AI are overshadowing actual scientific research, likening the situation to the crypto hype. - Despite the investment frenzy, Hassabis believes AI’s potential is only beginning to be tapped, with applications in drug discovery, weather prediction, and nuclear fusion. US congress bans Microsoft’s AI tool Copilot citing security concerns - The Office of Cybersecurity bans Copilot for House staff due to potential data leaks to unapproved cloud services. - Microsoft plans to release AI tools meeting federal security requirements later this year. © 2023 Zakti Techmedia Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. | [Unsubscribe](