Join us in Atlanta on April 10th and explore the landscape of security workforce. We will explore the vision, benefits, and use cases of AI for security teams. Request an invite here. As the demand for generative AI continues to grow, concerns about its safe and reliable deployment have become more prominent than ever. Enterprises […]
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Adobe introduces structure reference for Firefly AI and GenStudio for brands
Join us in Atlanta on April 10th and explore the landscape of security workforce. We will explore the vision, benefits, and use cases of AI for security teams. Request an invite here. Adobe was one of the largest and first companies to jump on the generative AI bandwagon with the release of its own, commercially-safe […]
Read MoreServiceNow’s Washington, DC update empowers IT operations and virtual agents with Gen AI
Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Today, ServiceNow announced “Now Platform Washington, D.C.”, the latest version of its workflow automation platform, enhanced with new generative AI enhancements as well as tools that boost productivity and optimize interactions in different growth-critical workflows. […]
Read MoreDatabricks acquires Lilac to supercharge data quality efforts for gen AI apps
Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Today, Databricks announced the acquisition of Lilac, a Boston-based applied research startup offering tools for data understanding and manipulation. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Ali Ghodsi-led data giant plans to bring […]
Read MoreExclusive: Data governance startup Euno emerges from stealth to manage business logic at scale
Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Organizations use data from many different sources, feeding data pipelines that help to power business intelligence, operations and, increasingly, AI workloads. Having consistent, clear governance for how the business logic should work for those data […]
Read MoreNvidia enables high-res Omniverse Cloud imagery on Apple Vision Pro
Nvidia showed off its Omniverse digital twin technology, viewed through the new prism of the Apple Vision Pro headset. Nvidia engineers have enabled the Omniverse Cloud application programming interface (API) to stream interactive, industrial digital twins into the Apple Vision Pro. I did the demo, and I could see the cloud-based imagery streaming at a […]
Read MoreKolena debuts platform for testing AI models and fine-tuned variants
Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. For businesses seeking to deploy AI models in their operations — either for employees or customers to use — one of the most critical questions isn’t even what model or what to use it for, […]
Read MoreGitHub launches ‘Copilot Enterprise’, an AI coding assistant for businesses
GitHub, a leading platform for open source software development, introduced today a new product aimed at helping large enterprises harness the power of artificial intelligence in their coding projects. The product, called GitHub Copilot Enterprise, is an AI assistant that can generate code suggestions, answer queries, and summarize changes based on the organization’s own codebase […]
Read MoreWriter unveils Palmyra-Vision, a multimodal AI to reimagine enterprise workflows
Writer, a leading enterprise AI startup, announced today the launch of a new multimodal AI model that can analyze and integrate visual data with text. The model, called Palmyra-Vision, is designed to help businesses streamline complex workflows that involve images, charts, graphs, and other visual inputs, as well as natural language understanding. May Habib, the […]
Read MoreDidimo enhances Popul8 tool to generate diverse selection of 3D characters for games
Didimo, which makes tools for automating digital character creation, aims accelerate 3D character production with its Asset Verification System, an enhancement to the Popul8 platform. The new feature from Porto, Portugal-based Didimo aims to ensure greater quality control, streamline workflows, and provide significant cost savings for game developers, addressing the escalating challenges faced by studios […]
Read MoreExclusive: VectorShift raises $3M to modularize LLM application development
Today, VectorShift, a startup working to simplify large language model (LLM) application development with a modular no-code approach, announced it has raised $3 million in seed funding from 1984 Ventures, Defy.vc, Formus Capital and Y Combinator. The New York-based startup was founded by Harvard alumni Alex Leonardi and Albert Mao. VectorShift provides enterprises with an […]
Read MoreAdobe adds AI assistant to Acrobat, Reader in effort to maintain relevance in PDF market
Adobe has just rolled out a new AI assistant for its Acrobat and Reader products today, bringing conversational AI abilities to help users parse and summarize the trillions of PDF files used by businesses and consumers worldwide. The move shows Adobe aiming to stay atop the PDF market it pioneered decades ago, as new AI […]
Read MoreLangChain lands $25M round, launches platform to support entire LLM application lifecycle
Today, LangChain, the startup facilitating the development of large language model (LLM) apps with its open-source framework, announced it has raised $25 million in a series A round, led by Sequoia Capital. The company also said it is launching LangSmith, its first paid LLMOps product for general availability. Designed as an all-in-one platform, LangSmith allows […]
Read MoreWhat is Apple’s generative AI strategy?
Apple was not mentioned much in the highlights of the 2023 generative AI race. However, it has been doing some impressive work in the field, minus the publicity that other tech companies have engaged in. In the past few months alone, Apple researchers have released papers, models and programming libraries that can have important implications […]
Read MoreZuck’s video takedown of Apple Vision Pro goes viral
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, which became Meta Platforms back in 2022, has some thoughts about Apple’s new Vision Pro spatial computer, and he’s not afraid to call the other company out for what he sees as some deficiencies, especially when compared to his own company’s rival Quest 3 headset. Yesterday, Zuck […]
Read MoreSalesforce rolls out native generative AI within Slack: Here’s how it works
Continuing its work with AI, Salesforce today announced it is rolling out native generative AI capabilities within Slack — or Slack AI. Generally available starting today, the features empower users with built-in search and summary capabilities that make it easier for them to find the information they need in a matter of seconds. The same […]
Read MoreApple researchers unveil ‘Keyframer’: An AI tool that animates still images using LLMs
Apple researchers have unveiled a new AI tool called “Keyframer,” which harnesses the power of large language models (LLMs) to animate static images through natural language prompts. This novel application, detailed in a new research paper published on arxiv.org, represents a giant leap in the integration of artificial intelligence into the creative process — and […]
Read MoreNvidia launches Ada Generation GPU with 19.9B transistors
Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. Nvidia unveiled its RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU, a graphics processing unit designed to meet the demands of AI-accelerated design and visualization. This latest addition to the RTX lineup — built with […]
Read MoreCimba.AI emerges from stealth with $1.25M pre-seed to help enterprises build AI agents
And while both of those tools are already being used by early adopters, it remains to be seen if enterprise customers hop aboard, and if so, how many. But said enterprise customers may want to consider yet another option, a new generative AI startup dedicated specifically to this task: Cimba.AI, founded by former Airbnb and […]
Read MoreAre you sure you want to share that with ChatGPT? How Metomic helps stop data leaks
Open AI‘s ChatGPT is one of the most powerful tools to come along in a lifetime, set to revolutionize the way many of us work. But its use in the enterprise is still a quandary: Businesses know that generative AI is a competitive force, yet the consequences of leaking sensitive information to the platforms are […]
Read MoreHugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs
Hugging Face, the New York City-based startup that offers a popular, developer-focused repository for open source AI code and frameworks (and hosted last year’s “Woodstock of AI”), today announced the launch of third party, customizable Hugging Chat Assistants. The new, free product offering allows users of Hugging Chat, the startup’s open source alternative to OpenAI’s […]
Read MoreMicrosoft’s AI Copilot for Sales and Service now generally available
This week, Microsoft announced the general availability of two new, sector-specific versions of Copilot: Until now, both products had been only offered in preview availability to select Microsoft customers such as Avanade, the business solutions and software provider joint venture formed by Accenture and Microsoft nearly 24 years ago. Already, the preview versions have been […]
Read MoreApple Vision Pro will launch with 600 apps made for it
Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, said in a tweet that there are more than 600 apps debuting tomorrow for the Apple Vision Pro. The mixed reality headset from Apple goes on sale […]
Read MoreDynatrace ventures into AI observability with new solution, covers entire LLM stack
Dynatrace, a Massachusetts-based company that provides technology to monitor and optimize application performance, announced today that it will expand into the artificial intelligence space. At its annual Perform conference, Dynatrace revealed plans to augment its core analytics platform with new capabilities to track both large AI models and applications powered by them. The new offering, […]
Read MoreDatabricks acquires team behind natural language data notebook Einblick
The data lakehouse provider Databricks isn’t slowing down on its shopping spree: the company today announced it has acquired the team behind Einblick, a provider of a natural language data science notebook that purports to allow enterprise users to “solve any data problem with just one sentence.” It’s the fourth in a flurry of acquisitions from […]
Read More10 reasons why securing software supply chains needs to start with containers
Containers and Kubernetes are table stakes for multi-cloud app development, and they’re also among the least protected of any areas of software supply chains. Kubernetes commands 92% of the container orchestration platform market, despite DevOps teams seeing it as a less secure container platform to use. It’s become the de facto standard for container platforms […]
Read MoreAI will dramatically transform sales (are you ready?)
In a special CarCast this week streamed from London, we discuss AI’s fundamental impact on sales. Notably, a special guest brings us his wealth of knowledge from decades of experience at hypergrowth SaaS organizations including Salesforce and Clari. [embedded content] CarCasting from an authentic London cab, Bruno and his special guest discuss: The fundamental issues with […]
Read MoreBrowser alternatives Brave, Arc, add new AI integrations
Generative AI isn’t just for making content — it’s also here to upend web browsing. That’s according to two privacy-focused web browser startups, Arc and Brave, both of which this week announced new generative AI powered features for their browsers. Arc adds Perplexity as a default browser search bar option Arc, the minimalistic browser created […]
Read MoreNew open source AI coding tool surpasses its inspiration: Google DeepMind’s AlphaCode
A new open source AI code generation tool, AlphaCodium, was inspired by Google DeepMind’s AlphaCode (and AlphaCode 2, which launched last month powered by Gemini) but has now surpassed it, setting X/Twitter all aflutter this week. “We are one step closer to having AI generate code better than humans!” posted Santiago Valdarrama,. “The results put […]
Read MoreEpic Games CEO blasts Apple for ‘malicious compliance’ with EU Digital Markets Act
Do you want to get the latest gaming industry news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters here. Apple announced its plan today to comply with “gatekeeper” restrictions in the European Union’s Digital Markets Act today. But with the ink barely dry on that Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney blasted […]
Read MoreDatabricks tailors AI-powered data intelligence platform for telecom companies
In another move to strengthen its customer base, Databricks today announced the launch of an industry-specific offering tailored for telecom companies and network service providers. Dubbed Data Intelligence Platform for Communications, the offering combines the power of the company’s data lakehouse architecture, generative AI models from MosaicML – acquired less than a year ago – […]
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