One of the selling points of Google’s flagship generative AI models, Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash, is the amount of data they can supposedly process and analyze. […]
This Week in AI: Generative AI is spamming up academic journals
Hiya, folks, and welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, generative AI is beginning to spam up academic publishing — a discouraging new development on […]
Perplexity now displays results for temperature, currency conversion and simple math, so you don’t have to use Google
Amid ongoing controversy about handling of media articles and original reporting, AI-powered search startup Perplexity now displays results for factual queries such as weather and time at a […]
SoftBank ties up with Perplexity
After announcing a strategic partnership with SoftBank in April, Perplexity — the AI search engine that has ambitions to take on Google — is now using the deal […]
Brave integrates its own search results with its Leo AI assistant
Privacy-focused search engine and web browser company Brave is integrating search results into its Leo chatbot. Search results are based on the Brave Search API and Leo is […]
Why Google AI Overviews got so weird so quickly
Google released AI search results, but some of the responses resulted in inaccuracies and a whole lot of memes.
Perplexity AI’s new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages
AI-powered summaries of webpages are a feature that you will find in many AI-centric tools these days. The next step for some of these tools is to prepare […]
Everything Google announced at its big Chromebook showcase
Google just announced some new premium Chromebooks as well as AI features to go with them.
What are Google’s AI Overviews good for?
Google has been taking heat for some of the inaccurate, funny, and downright weird answers that it’s been providing via AI Overviews in search. AI Overviews are the […]