What are the latest breakthroughs in generative AI? What’s just noise?

In a new episode of the Cornell Keynotes podcast from eCornell, Karan Girotra, the Charles H. Dyson Family Professor of Management and professor of operations, technology and innovation at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and Cornell Tech, explores what’s new in the world of AI, including updates on Apple Intelligence, Anthropic and advancements in China.

He examines late-breaking technical advances in generative AI such as new video capabilities, autonomous agents, robotics and the next generation of models.

"The gap between the leading models from China and Open AI is not as large as people might think.

I was checking out Alibaba's product called Qwen. It's pretty damn good. It's comparable to what anyone except OpenAI has. It's comparable to Meta and others' models, which were quite, quite impressive.

On the video side, OpenAI has shown us SORA, but it hasn't really allowed us to play with it.

To the best of my knowledge, the only company that is making video generation easily accessible to consumers is a Chinese company, Kuaishou . . . in their product right now, [you can] generate video, which I don't think any U.S. company is doing so far.

Keep your eyes out on what is happening in China. It's covered less in the U.S. media, but I think both for businesses and individuals, it's important to see what's going on there."

—Karan Girotra

Hear about Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude, discover what differentiates Apple Intelligence from other AI tech and get tips on how to start using AI at work in Episode 39, AI Today: Current Trends in Generative AI Tech Mid-Year Update.

Karan Girotra is an author of three online eCornell programs:

• Generative AI for Productivity
• AI for Digital Transformation
• Digital Leadership

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