OpenAI releases Point-E, an open-source ML system that generates and displays 3D objects from a text prompt in one to two minutes on a single Nvidia V100 GPU (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
EVGA stops making video cards, citing conflicts with Nvidia and ending a partnership started in 1999; Nvidia’s GeForce reportedly makes up 80% of EVGA’s revenue  —  EVGA will continue selling current-gen GeForce cards until it runs out of stock.  —  Graphics card manufacturer eVGA …

TechCrunch:
A look at Unstable Diffusion, which is trying to monetize AI porn generators; the group migrated from a subreddit to Discord, where it has over 45,000 members  —  Of course, it’s an ethical minefield  —  When Stable Diffusion, the text-to-image AI developed by startup Stability AI …

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Epic makes RealityScan app, which lets users scan real-life objects to turn them into 3D models, available for free on iOS, after a limited beta launch in April  —  Epic Games’ RealityScan app, which lets you scan real-life objects and turn them into 3D models for video games or other projects …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Intel, Arm, and Nvidia propose a new open, license-free specification with 8-bit floating point, or FP8, precision as a common interchange format for AI  —  In pursuit of faster and more efficient AI system development, Intel, Arm and Nvidia today published a draft specification for what they refer …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI open sources Whisper, a speech recognition system that was trained on 680K hours of “multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web”  —  Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning.  In a step toward solving it …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Mem, a work-focused app that uses AI to organize notes, raised $23.5M led by the OpenAI Startup Fund at a $110M valuation, bringing its total funding to $29M  —  Last year, OpenAI announced the OpenAI Startup Fund, a tranche through which it and its partners, including Microsoft …