5 things about AI you may have missed today: Google’s AI music service, IBM to launch Meta’s Llama 2, more

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There are some significant updates in the world of artificial intelligence today. Google and Universal Music are in talks to start an AI-powered music service that will license artists' melodies and voices for songs. In other news, IBM is set to host Meta's Llama 2 AI model on its watsonx platform. If you missed these or other similar AI-related news today, then here is a quick refresher. Let us take a look at today's AI roundup.

As per a report by Financial Times, Google and Universal Music are currently in talks over a new AI-powered service that will generate music after licensing artists' melodies and voices to train their models with. The discussions are at an early stage between the two, and no product details are known at the moment. Without citing the names of the sources, the report stated that the goal of the talk “is to develop a tool for fans to create tracks of their musical heroes legitimately, and pay the owners of the copyrights for it”.

International Business Machine, otherwise known as IBM, announced that it will host Meta Platforms' AI language program Llama 2 on its own enterprise platform called watsonx, as per a report by Reuters. The hosting platform is a business tool that will offer an AI-integrated workflow to easily manage any AI models. Llama 2 is a commercial version of Meta's open-source AI language model launched in July, distributed by Microsoft's cloud Azure services.

Microsoft announced its partnership with layer-1 blockchain-based firm Aptos Labs to create new business tools that will be built on the blockchain infrastructure and will use AI technology.

Mo Shaikh, cofounder and CEO of Aptos Labs, told TechCrunch+, “The primary focus for both of us is solving our respective industries