Tag: AI

How AI Is transforming business outcomes across industries and sectors

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Since late last year, AI development has gained momentum at what seems like an inexorable pace. From large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 that are capable of extraordinary cognitive feats (like scoring […]

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Zuckerberg’s Vision for AI: A Bot That Makes Ads and Helps You Say Happy Birthday to Your Friends

In a new podcast episode with Lex Fridman, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed his upcoming plans with AI, including an AI assistant that can help your social life and make ads for your business.  Zuckerberg told Fridman that, unlike OpenAI’s GPT models, he hopes to deploy a huge, diverse range of Large Language Models (LLMs) […]

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Microsoft unveils Azure OpenAI Service for Government & AI customer commitments

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More The last two days have been busy ones at Redmond: yesterday, Microsoft announced its new Azure OpenAI Service for government. Today, the tech giant unveiled a new set of three commitments to […]

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WordPress launches generative AI assistant to enhance content writing

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More WordPress has announced a proprietary AI-powered writing assistant to help users create and edit blog posts. The new tool, called Jetpack AI Assistant, is now readily available on WordPress.com and seamlessly integrates into the […]

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Sierra Ventures’ Tim Guleri on generative AI: ‘I’ve never been as excited and as scared in my 20 years of doing VC’

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Tim Guleri, a venture capitalist at Silicon Valley firm Sierra Ventures, has witnessed numerous technology revolutions throughout his career, but recently told VentureBeat he believes the current emergence of generative AI is […]

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Zuckerberg says Meta building generative AI into all its products, recommits to ‘open science’

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More In an internal all-hands meeting this morning, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta is building generative AI into all of its products and reaffirmed the company’s commitment to an “open science-based approach” […]

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PhotoRoom, Google Cloud partner to democratize generative AI photo editing

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More AI-powered photo editing app PhotoRoom has partnered with Google Cloud to use the capabilities of Google Cloud’s A3 instances, powered by Nvidia GPUs, and its expertise in scaling large AI models. The […]

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Senate letter to Meta on LLaMA leak is a threat to open-source AI, say experts

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More A letter sent by two U.S. senators to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday, which questioned the leak in March of Meta’s popular open-source large language model LLaMA, sends a threat to the […]

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LinkedIn launches generative AI tool to write ad copy

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Following in the footsteps of Meta, LinkedIn has announced a generative AI tool to help automate the writing part of ad campaigns housed on the professional network. Dubbed AI Copy Suggestions, the […]

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To combat GPU shortage for generative AI, startup works to optimize hardware

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More AI startup CentML, which optimizes machine learning models to work faster and lower compute costs, emerged from stealth today. The Toronto-based company aims to help address the worldwide shortage of GPUs needed […]

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OpenAI rival Cohere raises a fresh $270 million to bring generative AI to the enterprise

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More AI startup Cohere is most certainly no longer flying under the radar. The Toronto-based company just announced $270 million in a series C round of funding led by Inovia with participation from […]

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Gong launches customizable generative AI models to streamline sales workflows

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Revenue intelligence platform Gong today unveiled a suite of proprietary generative AI models designed specifically for sales teams. The company said that its extensive dataset of sales interactions, including calls, emails and […]

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Adobe brings Firefly, ‘commercially safe’ image-generating AI, to the enterprise

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Adobe announced today that it will bring Firefly, its image-generating AI that it claims is the only “commercially safe generative AI,” to enterprise users. Adobe Firefly for Enterprise will allow employees across […]

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Contextual AI emerges from stealth with $20M to pursue ‘artificial specialized intelligence’

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Contextual AI, a new enterprise-focused AI startup founded in Palo Alto by veterans of Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and Hugging Face, today emerged from stealth and announced it has raised $20 million […]

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Weights & Biases weaves new LLMOps capabilities for AI development and model monitoring

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More San Francisco startup Weights & Biases is expanding its platform today with the release of a pair of new capabilities designed to help make it easier for organizations to build and monitor […]

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Virtual Beings Summit features how AI simulations will change entertainment (June 7 in SF)

Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. The fifth annual Virtual Beings Summit: Simulations is taking place on June 7 in San Francisco, and the event will center on the big trend around AI simulations, where smart AI characters populate virtual worlds. […]

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Salesforce doubles down on generative AI with Marketing GPT and Commerce GPT

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Today, CRM giant Salesforce debuted two new generative AI products. Announced at the company’s ongoing Connections conference, Marketing GPT and Commerce GPT will power Salesforce’s Marketing Cloud and Commerce Cloud, enabling enterprises […]

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People Are Pirating GPT-4 By Scraping Exposed API Keys

Image: Jack Guez/Contributor Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard’s podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet. People on the Discord for the r/ChatGPT subreddit are advertising stolen OpenAI API tokens that have been scraped from other peoples’ code, according to chat logs, screenshots and interviews. People using the stolen API keys can […]

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Deepmind’s AlphaDev discovers sorting algorithms that can revolutionize computing foundations

Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) research lab DeepMind has achieved a remarkable feat in computer science through its latest AI system, AlphaDev. This specialized version of AlphaZero has made a significant breakthrough by uncovering faster sorting and hashing algorithms, which are essential processes utilized trillions of times daily by developers worldwide for data sorting, storage and […]

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Google Cloud expands AI offerings with new tools, programs and partnerships

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Google Cloud is making another major push into generative AI with a slew of new tools, services and programs announced today aimed at helping businesses adopt and use the emerging technology. The […]

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Typeface expands customized generative AI approach with Google Cloud partnership

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Typeface is continuing to advance its customized generative AI agenda with a new Google Cloud partnership announced today. The San Francisco-based company emerged from stealth in February with $65 million in funding […]

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Optimism about AI is growing as more people use it, BCG report finds

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Generative AI has been making headlines frequently in recent months, but how much are people really using the technology in their work? A fair bit, as it turns out: 46% of all […]

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Lack of trust slowing down AI revolution in medical settings: GE Healthcare report

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More At a time when AI is all the rage, a new survey from GE Healthcare has highlighted a significant level of distrust and skepticism around its use in medical settings. The Reimagining […]

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Senators send letter questioning Mark Zuckerberg over Meta’s LLaMA leak

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Two U.S. Senators sent a letter today to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg that questions the leak of Meta’s popular open-source large language model LLaMA, saying they are concerned about the “potential for […]

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McKinsey says ‘about half’ of its employees are using generative AI

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More McKinsey and Company, the global consulting firm with more than 30,000 employees across 67 countries, is embracing new generative AI tools in a major way: nearly 50 percent of the firm’s workforce […]

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LLM integration takes Cloudera data lakehouse from Big Data to Big AI

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Cloudera got its start in the Big Data era and is now moving quickly into the era of Big AI with large language models (LLMs). Today, Cloudera announced its strategy and tools […]

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How Microsoft Fabric aims to beat Amazon and Google in the cloud war

Microsoft unveiled a new cloud data and analytics platform two weeks ago that analysts say give it an edge over its main rivals, Amazon and Google, in the fiercely competitive cloud market.  The platform, called Microsoft Fabric, is a comprehensive suite of tools that allows enterprise customers to store, manage and analyze the data that […]

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Glean Chat launches to unlock AI-driven search for the enterprise

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Glean, the Palo Alto, CA-based enterprise search startup that hit unicorn status a year ago, announced Glean Chat today — a ChatGPT-like assistant specifically for workplace productivity. Users can answer questions and […]

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