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Lightning AI launches next-gen AI compiler ‘Thunder’ to accelerate model training

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. Open-source AI development platform Lightning AI, in partnership with Nvidia, announced today the release of Thunder, a source-to-source compiler for the open-source machine […]

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With Quiet-STaR, language models learn to think before speaking

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. Humans are gifted with the ability to reason: “if” and “why” and the ability to “read between the lines” and infer unstated information […]

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Activeloop nets $11M to give enterprises a better way to leverage multimodal data for AI

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. California-based Activeloop, a startup offering a dedicated database to streamline AI projects, today announced it has raised $11 million in series A funding […]

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Sakana AI’s evolutionary algorithm discovers new architectures for generative models

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. A new technique developed by much-hyped Tokyo, Japan startup Sakana AI automatically creates generative models. The technique, called Evolutionary Model Merge, is inspired […]

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Nvidia unveils Latte3D to instantly generate 3D shapes from text

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 Latte3D to use generative AI to instantly generate 3D shapes from text. The text-to-3D generative AI generative AI model can produce high-quality 3D shapes in milliseconds. Crafted by Nvidia’s AI […]

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CIOs share how they are harnessing gen AI’s potential at Nvidia GTC

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Generative AI use cases are progressing quickly from pilots to production, delivering measurable, reliable results at scale across enterprises today.  From detecting anomalies in security logs to improving developer productivity through automation of code migrations, […]

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How to rebound from a tech layoff

Working in the tech industry? Then you’ll know all about layoffs, which have been happening in trickles and surges since mid-2022. While redundancies dried up a little at the end of the summer of 2023, they are back in full force with redundancies tracker Layoffs.fyi reporting over 49,000 layoffs this year so far. We have […]

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Beyond AI: How Nvidia is helping scale quantum computing

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Quantum is set to be the next frontier of computing. But it is an immense undertaking that has yet to be fully realized; researchers continue to face challenges in a multitude of areas — including […]

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Vector databases: Shiny object syndrome and the case of a missing unicorn

Welcome to 2024, where if you’re not riding the generative AI wave, you might as well be stuck in 2022 – practically ancient history in the AI timeline. Every organization has an AI roadmap now, from AI pillows to AI toothbrushes, and if you still have not hurriedly put a plan together, let me suggest […]

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Apple researchers achieve breakthroughs in multimodal AI as company ramps up investments

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Apple researchers have developed new methods for training large language models on both text and images, enabling more powerful and flexible AI systems, in what could be a significant advance for artificial intelligence and for […]

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Invoke rolls out Workflows, AI tools for game developers

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  Invoke announced today it’s rolling out Invoke Workflows, a set of tools for game developers to roll out customized AI on a enterprise scale. As Invoke describes it, Workflows as a solution […]

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Duolingo is hiring devs who can help it with language learning gamification

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  Duolingo is hiring game developers and others who can help it with language learning gamification. Bob Meese, chief business officer at Duolingo, said in an interview with GamesBeat that the company will […]

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Kolena 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, […]

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Cognition emerges from stealth to launch AI software engineer Devin

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Today, Cognition, a recently formed AI startup backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and tech industry leaders including former Twitter executive Elad Gil and Doordash co-founder Tony Xu, announced a fully autonomous AI software engineer […]

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DeepMind and Stanford’s new robot control model follow instructions from sketches

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Recent advances in language and vision models have helped make great progress in creating robotic systems that can follow instructions from text descriptions or images. However, there are limits to what language- and image-based instructions […]

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Microsoft’s new Orca-Math AI outperforms models 10x larger

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Students and STEM researchers of the world, rejoice! Particularly if you struggled with math (as I did as a youngster, and still do compared to many of the people I write about) or are just […]

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H2O AI releases Danube, a super-tiny LLM for mobile applications

Today, H2O AI, the company working to democratize AI with a range of open-source and proprietary tools, announced the release of Danube, a new super-tiny large language model (LLM) for mobile devices. Named after the second-largest river in Europe, the open-source model comes with 1.8 billion parameters and is said to match or outperform similarly […]

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Stack Overflow partners with Google Cloud to power developer generative AI intelligence

Large language models (LLMs) rely on having lots of good-quality data on which to train. Regarding developers, few organizations have as much data as Stack Overflow, a leading online knowledge-sharing platform used by more than 100 million developers every month. Today Stack Overflow announced a partnership with Google Cloud to bring advanced artificial intelligence (AI) […]

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Nvidia, Hugging Face and ServiceNow release new StarCoder2 LLMs for code generation

Nvidia, Hugging Face and ServiceNow are pushing the bar on AI for code generation with StarCoder2, a new family of open-access large language models (LLMs). Available today in three different sizes, the models have been trained on more than 600 programming languages, including low-resource ones, to help enterprises accelerate various code-related tasks in their development […]

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Why Meta’s V-JEPA model can be a big deal for real-world AI

Meta’s AI chief Yann LeCun has been a long-time proponent of machine learning (ML) systems that can learn to explore and understand the world on their own, with little or no guidance from humans. Meta’s latest ML model, V-JEPA, is the company’s next step toward realizing this vision. The goal of V-JEPA, which stands for […]

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GitHub 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 […]

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AWS will add Mistral open source AI models to Amazon Bedrock

In the latest salvo in the ongoing war between cloud server providers to offer their customers with the most comprehensive set of generative AI models, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Principal Developer Advocate Donnie Prakoso today announced in a blog post that the cloud leader would be bringing open source LLMs from red-hot French startup Mistral to […]

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Get ready for the age of sovereign AI | Jensen Huang interview

Yesterday, Nvidia reported $22.1 billion in revenue for its fourth fiscal quarter of fiscal 2024 (ending January 31, 2024), easily topping Wall Street’s expectations. The revenues grew 265% from a year ago, thanks to the explosive growth of generative AI. I wrote the first story on Nvidia back in 1996, when the company was pitching its […]

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Artificial Intelligence set to drive major tech advancements in 2024, IEEE study finds

Artificial intelligence (AI) in its many evolving forms will be the most important area of technology in 2024, according to a new global survey of chief technology officers and IT directors conducted by IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization. The new study titled “The Impact of Technology in 2024 and Beyond: An IEEE Global […]

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Exclusive: 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 […]

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Google DeepMind debuts Gemma open models, offers developer alternative to Gemini API

Today Google DeepMind unveiled Gemma, its new 2B and 7B open source models built from the same research and technology used to create the company’s recently-announced Gemini models.  The Gemma models will be released with pre-trained and instruction-tuned variants, Google DeepMind said in a blog post. The model weights will be released with a permissive […]

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Adobe 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 […]

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Google DeepMind alumni unveil Bioptimus: Aiming to build first universal biology AI model

As the French startup ecosystem continues to boom — think Mistral, Poolside, and Adaptive — today the Paris-based Bioptimus, with a mission to build the first universal AI foundation model for biology, emerged from stealth following a seed funding round of $35 million. The new open science model will connect the different scales of biology […]

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These are the software roles you can leverage for remote working

The news that more than 40% of software engineers only want remote jobs won’t come as much of a surprise to anyone who codes for a living. The figure comes from a State of Software Engineers report from last year, which also found that 21% of engineers said they’d quit their jobs immediately if asked […]

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Why artificial general intelligence lies beyond deep learning

Sam Altman’s recent employment saga and speculation about OpenAI’s groundbreaking Q* model have renewed public interest in the possibilities and risks of artificial general intelligence (AGI). AGI could learn and execute intellectual tasks comparably to humans. Swift advancements in AI, particularly in deep learning, have stirred optimism and apprehension about the emergence of AGI. Several […]

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Google unveils Gemini 1.5, a next-gen AI model with million-token context window

Google today unveiled Gemini 1.5, the latest iteration of its conversational AI system, touting major advances in efficiency, performance and long-form reasoning capabilities.   The new system, detailed in a blog post by Google AI chief Demis Hassabis, incorporates significant architecture improvements that allow its core model, Gemini 1.5 Pro, to perform on par with the […]

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