Reddit Introduces AI-powered Answers to Compete with Google

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• Reddit Introduces AI-powered Answers to Compete with Google

• Tencent introduces open-source video generator HunyuanVideo

• Coconut from Meta lets language models think without words

Reddit
💭 Reddit Introduces AI-powered Answers to Compete with Google

Reddit is launching a new AI-powered search tool called Reddit Answers to help you find information on the platform more easily. Unlike other AI-powered chat and search tools, Reddit’s AI-generated answers are sourced from posts found on the platform, not from around the web.

Insights for you:

• Reddit Answers uses AI to answer your questions with summarized information from across the platform.

• With this feature, users can search for Reddit content on the platform, reducing the reliance on Google for traffic.

• Reddit Answers is available via a new button on the company’s homepage. It will initially roll out to a limited number of users in the US.

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Tencent
⚡️ Tencent introduces open-source video generator HunyuanVideo

Tencent announced HunyuanVideo, a new open-source AI model for video generation that aims to match the capabilities of existing commercial solutions. With more than 13 billion parameters, Tencent says it's the largest publicly available model of its kind.

Insights for you:

• Tencent launched HunyuanVideo, an open-source AI video generation model with 13 billion parameters that, according to technical documentation, outperforms existing systems such as Runway Gen-3 and Luma 1.6 in terms of motion quality.

• The model undergoes multi-stage training, starting with low-resolution images (256 pixels), mixed-scale training, and progressive video and image training with increasing resolution and video length.

• By releasing it as open source on GitHub, Tencent aims to bridge the gap between closed and open systems. The system can generate video from text, convert images to video, and create avatar animations.

Meta
🥥 Coconut from Meta lets language models think without words

A research team from Meta and UC San Diego has developed a new AI method called "Coconut" that allows language models to think in latent space rather than natural language, showing significant advantages over traditional methods.

Insights for you:

• Researchers at Meta and UC San Diego have developed a new AI method called "Coconut", which allows language models to think in latent space instead of in natural language.

• In tests, Coconut has shown greater accuracy and efficiency than the established chain-of-thought method, particularly for complex logical tasks.

• In ProntoQA, for example, it achieved 99.8% accuracy with only 9 tokens, while CoT achieved 98.8% accuracy with 92.5 tokens.