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🤖 Google’s “Project Astra” and “Veo?!”

PLUS: Klarna Says 90% of Its Employees Use AI, Create a Website in Seconds

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James Roesser
May 16, 2024

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In today’s AI Report:

  • 🦾Google’s “Project Astra” and “Veo?!”

  • 📊Klarna Says 90% of Its Employees Use AI

  • 💻Create a Website in Seconds

  • 🛠5 Trending Tools

  • 💰Venture Capital Updates

  • 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

GOOGLE

🦾Google’s “Project Astra” and “Veo?!”

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During the Google I/O 2024 developer conference, the search engine giant unveiled a universal assistant called “Project Astra” and a text-to-video AI model called “Veo.”

Key Details:

  • Google DeepMind unveiled “Project Astra,” a universal assistant that can process multimodal information (e.g., text, image, voice, and video), understand the context you’re in, and take action on the user’s behalf.

  • The demonstration video showcased an employee interacting with “Project Astra” by using their smartphone’s camera and asking the universal assistant to locate missing glasses, identify parts of a speaker, and review code.

  • Google DeepMind introduced “Veo,” a text-to-video AI model that generates high-quality, 1080p Full HD videos over a minute long.

  • Whether you’re a seasoned filmmaker, aspiring creator, or educator looking to share knowledge, “Veo” provides unprecedented creative control by applying cinematic effects, like time lapses or aerial shots, to a user’s prompt.

Why It’s Important:

  • “Project Astra” offers a more seamless, natural, and helpful way to interact with AI models. It gathers information from the real world through your smartphone’s camera and responds to questions conversationally.

  • “Veo’s” ability to generate high-quality videos from text descriptions opens doors for more people to create content.

KLARNA

📊Klarna Says 90% of Its Employees Use AI

Image Source: Erika Gerdemark/Bloomberg

Swedish financial technology firm Klarna reported that nearly 90% of its employees rely on GenAI tools to streamline daily workflows and boost task completion.

Key Details:

  • Klarna, which allows individuals to split their purchases into interest-free monthly installments, said that roughly 90% of its 5,000 employees use GenAI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

  • The most significant users of GenAI in the company are non-technical groups, including communications {92.6%}, marketing {87.9%}, and legal {86.4%}.

  • Klarna also deployed its own internal AI assistant called “Kiki.” Over 85% of employees rely on “Kiki,” with the chatbot responding to at least 2,000 queries a day.

  • Selma Bogren, senior managing legal counsel at Klarna, explained: “Instead of an hour, you can draft a contract in ten minutes.”

Why It’s Important:

  • According to a Deloitte survey, 61% of respondents who work with a computer use GenAI tools in their day-to-day work without their manager’s knowledge.

  • Klarna’s primary use for GenAI tools involves evaluating whether press articles written about the company are positive or negative and drafting contracts.

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