Meta's Search Engine coming soon?

Hello, AI Enthusiasts!

Welcome to FavTutor’s AI Recap! We’ve gathered all the latest and important AI developments from the past week in one place, just for you.

In Today’s Newsletter: 😀 

• Meta's Search Engine coming soon?

• Apple's new AI can control Apps across iPhones, iPads and Android

• Vision language models struggle to solve simple visual puzzles

• Google’s AI search summaries expanding to 100+ countries

Meta
🌐 Meta's Search Engine coming soon?

Meta is developing its web search engine, according to a report by The Information. A team has been working on web indexing for at least eight months. The technology is designed to capture websites and organize their content into databases for Meta AI.

Insights for you:

• Meta is developing its web search engine to provide up-to-date information to its AI chatbot, Meta AI.

• The company wants to become less dependent on Google Search and Microsoft Bing, which currently provide data for Meta AI.

• The new search engine could serve as a backup if Google or Microsoft were to terminate existing agreements.

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Apple
🧠 Apple's new AI can control Apps across iPhones, iPads and Android

Apple has developed a new AI system called Ferret-UI 2 that can read and control apps across iPhones, iPads, Android devices, web browsers, and Apple TV. The goal is to create AI systems that can interact naturally with UIs designed for humans.

Insights for you:

• Apple has developed Ferret UI 2, a new AI system that can understand and interact with screen content across devices.

• In tests, Ferret-UI 2 showed strong performance in transferring skills between similar devices - models trained on iPhone data worked well with both iPads (68 percent accuracy) and Android devices (71 percent accuracy).

• However, the system struggled more when moving between mobile devices and TV or web interfaces due to their different layouts and formats.

AI Research
👎️ Vision language models struggle to solve simple visual puzzles

A new study from Germany's TU Darmstadt shows that even the most sophisticated AI image models fail at simple visual reasoning tasks.

Insights for you:

• The study shows that even advanced AI image models like GPT-4o fail to solve simple visual puzzles known as Bongard problems, which consist of twelve images in two groups, and the task is to find the rule that distinguishes the groups.

• The models tested had considerable difficulty solving the puzzles, with GPT-4 only able to solve 21 out of 100 problems, and other models such as Claude, Gemini, and LLaVA performing even worse, highlighting a "significant gap" between human and machine visual intelligence.

• The researchers question common logic benchmarks used to evaluate AI systems, suggesting that these benchmarks may not accurately measure the true extent of an AI model's visual reasoning abilities. that humans find intuitive

Google
📈 Google’s AI search summaries expanding to 100+ countries

According to the latest 2024 update by Google, AI Overviews will begin rolling out in more than 100 countries and territories around the world. They also mentioned that users prefer using Search with AI Overviews, and they find their search results more helpful.

Insights for you:

• The AI search summaries will now be available in the following major markets: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Colombia, Chile, the Phillippines, and Nigeria.

• Language support is also expanded including English, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.

• With this latest expansion, AI Overviews will have more than 1 billion global users every month.