Computer Vision

The tool uses computer-vision technology initially developed in Amazon warehouses to identify products without using barcode scanners

Raspberry Pi, the UK-based single-board computer (SBC) company, launched an AI Camera on Monday. The device focused on artificial intelligence (AI) projects and workflows is aimed to let users make full use of external AI accelerators, such as the Raspberry Pi AI Kit, which was launched in June. The AI Camera features a 12-megapixel Sony IMX500 Int...

Apple Vision Pro successor is said to be on the cards and may launch as soon as next year, according to an industry analyst. The mixed reality headset is speculated to boast a next-generation Apple silicon chipset that could support Apple Intelligence — the suite of artificial intelligence (AI) features which might help improve the overall user e...

Snapchat has partnered with Google Cloud to bring the capabilities of its artificial intelligence (AI) model Gemini to My AI. Announced on Tuesday, the strategic partnership has allowed the social media platform to add computer vision capabilities as well as improved processing of text, audio, and code. As per the Mountain View-based tech giant, Sn...

Mistral released its first multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) model dubbed Pixtral 12B on Wednesday. The AI firm, known for its open-source large language models (LLMs), has also made the latest AI model available on GitHub and Hugging Face for users to download and test it out. Notably, despite being multimodal, Pixtral can only process image...

Opera browser for Android is getting a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will let users run search queries about images. The feature is being integrated within Aria, the browser’s native AI assistant, as a part of the company’s AI Feature Drop programme. The feature will be available in the Opera Developer build of the Android brows...

Meta has scrapped its plans for a high-end mixed-reality headset, that could have rivalledd Apple's Vision Pro spatial computer, as reported by The Information. Employees in the Reality Labs division, which has incurred millions in losses to date, were instructed to halt their work on the project this week following a product review meeting, accord...

Meta released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model on Monday that can perform complex computer vision tasks. Dubbed Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), it follows after its predecessor that was launched last year and was incorporated in Instagram’s Backdrop and Cutouts tool. The successor to the model now comes with advanced capabilities and th...

Solos AirGo Vision smart glasses were recently unveiled by the company, as per a report. The Hong Kong-based brand so far only offers audio-based smart features, and this will be the first time when its device will also provide artificial intelligence (AI) features with computer vision. It is said that the smart glasses will be integrated with GPT-...

Apple Vision Pro was unveiled in June 2023 with much fanfare. It was touted to be the device that could replace both smartphones and computers while offering customisable immersive and virtual environments for digital tasks. A new report now claims that Apple is working on a multiproduct strategy to boost its headset’s popularity.

GPT-4o was introduced with several new features. It added real-time emotive voice generation, access to the Internet, integration with certain cloud services, computer vision, and more. While the features were impressive on paper (and in the tech demos), the biggest highlight was the announcement that GPT-4o-powered ChatGPT will be available to eve...

Nvidia unveiled Project G-Assist, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant powered by its Ray Tracing Texel eXtreme (RTX) platform on Sunday at Computex 2024. The tech giant introduced it as a personal gaming assistant for PCs that can answer queries about any video game including gaming strategies and analysing multiplayer replays. The AI comes w...

Google shared a video on its social media platforms on Monday, teasing new capabilities of its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot Gemini. The video was released just a day before the company’s annual developer-focused Google I/O event. It is believed that the tech giant could make several announcements around AI and unveil new features ...

Apple might have acquired a French artificial intelligence (AI) startup which is working with on-device computer vision technology, as per a report. The Paris-based Datakalab was reportedly acquired by the iPhone maker at the end of last year. The move is said to be related to the tech giant’s ambitions of bringing AI features to the iPhone and i...

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) firm xAI unveiled a new AI model dubbed Grok 1.5 Vision. This large language model (LLM) is an enhanced version of the recently released Grok 1.5 model. With this upgrade, the AI model is now equipped with computer vision, making it capable of accepting visual media as input. It can process images and answ...

The tool uses computer-vision technology initially developed in Amazon warehouses to identify products without using barcode scanners

Raspberry Pi, the UK-based single-board computer (SBC) company, launched an AI Camera on Monday. The device focused on artificial intelligence (AI) projects and workflows is aimed to let users make full use of external AI accelerators, such as the Raspberry Pi AI Kit, which was launched in June. The AI Camera features a 12-megapixel Sony IMX500 Int...

Apple Vision Pro successor is said to be on the cards and may launch as soon as next year, according to an industry analyst. The mixed reality headset is speculated to boast a next-generation Apple silicon chipset that could support Apple Intelligence — the suite of artificial intelligence (AI) features which might help improve the overall user e...

Snapchat has partnered with Google Cloud to bring the capabilities of its artificial intelligence (AI) model Gemini to My AI. Announced on Tuesday, the strategic partnership has allowed the social media platform to add computer vision capabilities as well as improved processing of text, audio, and code. As per the Mountain View-based tech giant, Sn...

Mistral released its first multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) model dubbed Pixtral 12B on Wednesday. The AI firm, known for its open-source large language models (LLMs), has also made the latest AI model available on GitHub and Hugging Face for users to download and test it out. Notably, despite being multimodal, Pixtral can only process image...

Opera browser for Android is getting a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will let users run search queries about images. The feature is being integrated within Aria, the browser’s native AI assistant, as a part of the company’s AI Feature Drop programme. The feature will be available in the Opera Developer build of the Android brows...

Meta has scrapped its plans for a high-end mixed-reality headset, that could have rivalledd Apple's Vision Pro spatial computer, as reported by The Information. Employees in the Reality Labs division, which has incurred millions in losses to date, were instructed to halt their work on the project this week following a product review meeting, accord...

Meta released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model on Monday that can perform complex computer vision tasks. Dubbed Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), it follows after its predecessor that was launched last year and was incorporated in Instagram’s Backdrop and Cutouts tool. The successor to the model now comes with advanced capabilities and th...

Solos AirGo Vision smart glasses were recently unveiled by the company, as per a report. The Hong Kong-based brand so far only offers audio-based smart features, and this will be the first time when its device will also provide artificial intelligence (AI) features with computer vision. It is said that the smart glasses will be integrated with GPT-...

Apple Vision Pro was unveiled in June 2023 with much fanfare. It was touted to be the device that could replace both smartphones and computers while offering customisable immersive and virtual environments for digital tasks. A new report now claims that Apple is working on a multiproduct strategy to boost its headset’s popularity.

GPT-4o was introduced with several new features. It added real-time emotive voice generation, access to the Internet, integration with certain cloud services, computer vision, and more. While the features were impressive on paper (and in the tech demos), the biggest highlight was the announcement that GPT-4o-powered ChatGPT will be available to eve...

Nvidia unveiled Project G-Assist, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant powered by its Ray Tracing Texel eXtreme (RTX) platform on Sunday at Computex 2024. The tech giant introduced it as a personal gaming assistant for PCs that can answer queries about any video game including gaming strategies and analysing multiplayer replays. The AI comes w...

Google shared a video on its social media platforms on Monday, teasing new capabilities of its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot Gemini. The video was released just a day before the company’s annual developer-focused Google I/O event. It is believed that the tech giant could make several announcements around AI and unveil new features ...

Apple might have acquired a French artificial intelligence (AI) startup which is working with on-device computer vision technology, as per a report. The Paris-based Datakalab was reportedly acquired by the iPhone maker at the end of last year. The move is said to be related to the tech giant’s ambitions of bringing AI features to the iPhone and i...

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) firm xAI unveiled a new AI model dubbed Grok 1.5 Vision. This large language model (LLM) is an enhanced version of the recently released Grok 1.5 model. With this upgrade, the AI model is now equipped with computer vision, making it capable of accepting visual media as input. It can process images and answ...