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Google and Replit Join forces to challenge Microsoft in coding tools

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Replit, a cloud software development platform with 20 million users, announced on Tuesday a new strategic partnership with Google Cloud that will give its developers access to Google’s infrastructure, services and foundation […]

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Hugging Face reveals generative AI performance gains with Intel 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 Nvidia’s A100 GPU accelerator has enabled groundbreaking innovations in generative AI, powering cutting-edge research that is reshaping what artificial intelligence can achieve. But in the fiercely competitive field of AI hardware, others […]

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Neural network complexity: Is it getting better?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made tremendous progress since its inception, and neural networks are usually part of that advancement. Neural networks that apply weights to variables in AI models are an integral part of this modern-day technology. Research is ongoing, and experts still debate whether bigger is better in terms of neural network complexity. Traditionally, […]

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3 key trends for 2023: Low code/no code, generative AI and the evolution of programming

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More This year we will continue to see changes in the tech industry. As we have been preparing for a fundamental in how we work, technology plays a major role in how employees […]

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Turing launches AI-powered services to form engineering dream teams

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Palo-Alto-based Turing today announced Turing Services, a tech consulting and services model combining their proprietary AI-powered technical recruitment technology with a ready network of handpicked consultants to offer tailored, end-to-end solutions for […]

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Top 5 stories of the week: Generative AI market heating up (even more)

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Once again, AI news topped the tech headlines this week — in particular, the generative AI market is becoming increasingly competitive, with both new and well-established enterprises making significant investments. This includes […]

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Speech AI, supercomputing in the cloud, and GPUs for LLMs and generative AI among Nvidia’s next big moves

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 its GTC 2023 conference, Nvidia revealed its plans for speech AI, with large language model (LLM) development playing a key role. Continuing to grow its software prowess, the hardware giant has […]

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TestGPT, a generative AI tool for ensuring code integrity, is released for beta

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, Tel Aviv-based Codium AI released a beta version of its generative AI-powered code-integrity solution, dubbed TestGPT. Designed to assist developers in testing their code, the TestGPT model offers autogenerated software test […]

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GitHub unveils Copilot X: The future of AI-powered software development

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More GitHub, the leading platform for software development collaboration, has announced today the next step in AI-driven software development with the introduction of Copilot X. As a pioneer in the use of generative […]

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Ethernet pioneer Bob Metcalfe named 2022 Turing Award winner

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 high-tech and venture capital (VC) communities continue to generate charismatic leaders, but few can compete with Bob Metcalfe, co-inventor of Ethernet at Xerox Parc and cofounder of local-area networking pioneer 3Com […]

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Nvidia will bring AI to every industry, says CEO Jensen Huang in GTC keynote: ‘We are at the iPhone moment of 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 As Nvidia’s annual GTC conference gets underway, founder and CEO Jensen Huang, in his characteristic leather jacket and standing in front of a vertical green wall at Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara, […]

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Nvidia accelerates vision AI with Metropolis and related updates

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Vision AI is set to take a leap forward with new Metropolis framework capabilities from Nvidia. This application development framework focuses on microservices, as well as a suite of cloud-native workflows that […]

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Augmented intelligence for everyone everywhere

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Everywhere you look, organizations are facing resource limits. If necessity is indeed the mother of invention, these resource constraints will give birth to new and disruptive innovations in 2023. Every new wave of […]

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How AI is driving the future of technology

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 the first computer was created in the mid-20th century and Apple’s first iPhone debuted in 2007, technology and the software development that comes along with it have revolutionized our world and […]

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Top 5 stories of the week: Generative AI dominates the news again

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Our AI senior writer/editor, Sharon Goldman, was kept busy again this week with news about generative AI and the new GPT-4 release. She wrote about all the big names — from Google […]

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How to navigate today’s conversational AI and text generative landscape

OpenAI’s revolutionary chatbot ChatGPT has been all over the news in recent months, triggering technology giants such as Google and Baidu to accelerate their AI roadmaps. ChatGPT is built on OpenAI’s GPT language model and provides a variety of functions, such as engaging in conversations, answering questions, generating written text, debugging code, conducting sentiment analysis, […]

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Microsoft announces generative AI-powered Copilot 365 to ‘change work as we know it’

In a pre-recorded demo event dubbed “The Future of Work WithAI” — which felt to this reporter like a highly produced infomercial (“Wait, there’s more!”) — Microsoft capped an epic week in generative AI by announcing Copilot 365 to “change work as we know it.” Layering on to the earlier “Copilot” verbiage that accompanied its Bing […]

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PyTorch 2.0 brings new fire to open-source machine learning

After months in preview, PyTorch 2.0 has been made generally available by the PyTorch Foundation. The open source PyTorch project is among the most widely used technologies for machine learning (ML) training. Originally started by Facebook (now Meta), PyTorch 1.0 came out in 2018 and benefitted from years of incremental improvements. >>Don’t miss our special […]

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How synthetic data is boosting AI at scale

This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: The quest for Nirvana: Applying AI at scale. Artificial intelligence (AI) relies heavily on large, diverse and meticulously-labeled datasets to train machine learning (ML) algorithms. In the modern era, data has become the lifeblood of AI, and obtaining the right data […]

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For Wells Fargo, solving for AI at scale is an iterative process

This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: The quest for Nirvana: Applying AI at scale. Wells Fargo, the 170-year-old multinational financial services giant, knows what it needs to do to scale AI across the organization. But that, according to Chintan Mehta, EVP and group CIO, is really just […]

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The power of MLOps to scale AI across the enterprise

This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: The quest for Nirvana: Applying AI at scale. To say that it’s challenging to achieve AI at scale across the enterprise would be an understatement.  An estimated 54% to 90% of machine learning (ML) models don’t make it into production from […]

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How the quest for AI at scale is gaining momentum in the enterprise

This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: The quest for Nirvana: Applying AI at scale. Enterprise companies have experimented with artificial intelligence (AI) for years — a pilot here, a use case there. But company leaders have long dreamed of going bigger, better and faster when it comes […]

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This AI startup just raised $350 million for generative AI trained to use every software tool and API

It’s not easy for an AI startup to raise $350 million these days. But with its generative AI trained to use every software tool and API, the year-old Adept AI has done just that — announcing today a new round of funding that bets on the potential to help knowledge workers boost how they use […]

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Google announces new generative AI lineup in advance of Microsoft’s rumored GPT-4 debut

This morning, Google announced a laundry list of new generative AI capabilities and features for developers, through a PaLM API and in Google Cloud, as well as new integrations for users of Google Workspace, including in Gmail and Google Docs. The announcements come just a month after Google unveiled its search chatbot Bard and less […]

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Fed SVB takeover saves AI startups, while Big Tech prepares new AI power plays | The AI Beat

Over the weekend, the hype around generative AI went strangely quiet, as the fallout from the failure of Silicon Valley Bank rapidly rippled through the tech world. By Sunday, executives at thousands of AI startups with deposits in SVB breathed a sigh of relief, as top U.S. federal regulators announced that the FDIC will take control […]

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As GPT-4 chatter resumes, Yoshua Bengio says ChatGPT is a “wake-up call”

Yesterday, Microsoft Germany CTO Andreas Braun was quoted as saying that GPT-4 will be introduced next week and will include multimodal models. The report, which ran in the German news outlet Heise, instantly led to renewed online chatter about the possibility of GPT-4’s debut, less than four months after the GPT 3.5 series, which ChatGPT […]

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Generative AI LLMs set to enter the Jurassic-2 era with AI21 Labs

While OpenAI is grabbing a lot of the hype in the generative AI world, it isn’t the only vendor building a large language model (LLM). Today, Israeli startup AI21 Labs announced the release of its latest generative AI model, known as Jurassic-2. AI21 Labs was founded in 2017, and released its Jurassic-1 Jumbo LLM in […]

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Nvidia GTC attendees get an exclusive look at Microsoft’s AI tech

This article is part of a VB Lab Insights series on AI sponsored by Microsoft and Nvidia. Don’t miss additional articles in this series providing new industry insights, trends and analysis on how AI is transforming organizations. Find them all here.   Developers, researchers and thought leaders will come together March 20 – 23 at […]

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You need to perform 15% better in a technical interview now

Whether you work in finance or the food industry, interviews can be a tricky process if you don’t prepare in advance, and aren’t well equipped to navigate questions while seamlessly selling your skills and experience. And if you work in tech, the bar has been elevated even higher. That’s according to data compiled by interviewing.io, […]

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How visual AI can solve the challenge of native mobile app testing

Consumers today live in a mobile-first world. According to research from App Annie, “consumers logged a record 3.8 trillion hours on their mobiles in 2021 and downloaded some 230 billion apps.” Further putting a stamp on mobile dominance is that Americans, on average, are now spending less time watching TV and spending more time on […]

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Avoiding the dangers of generative AI

Generative AI is generating a lot of interest from both the public and investors. But they are overlooking a fundamental risk. When ChatGPT launched in November, allowing users to submit questions to a chatbot and get AI-produced responses, the internet went into a frenzy. Thought leaders proclaimed that the new technology could transform sectors from […]

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