Tag: language models

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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Accenture partners with Cohere to bring generative AI to enterprises

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Accenture, the global consulting giant, has partnered with leading enterprise AI startup Cohere to bring its language models and search capabilities to businesses worldwide. The collaboration, announced today, aims to provide enterprise clients with tailored […]

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Rasa lands $30M to supercharge customer service with generative AI assistants

San Francisco-based Rasa, a startup working to streamline enterprise customer service with generative AI, has raised $30 million in a series C round of funding, co-led by StepStone Group and PayPal Ventures. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Accel and Basis Set Ventures also participated in the funding round. Rasa has seen steady growth with its technology over […]

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Apple 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 […]

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Looking for more intelligence from meetings? Otter.ai is taking a shot with ‘Meeting GenAI’

Otter.ai is expanding its namesake platform today with a series of new features the vendor has dubbed “Meeting GenAI,” designed to boost meeting intelligence. The San Francisco-based startup provides online artificial intelligence (AI) powered voice transcription services. It integrates with many common meeting providers including Zoom. In June 2023, the company first debuted its Otter […]

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Meet ‘Smaug-72B’: The new king of open-source AI

A new open-source language model has claimed the throne of the best in the world, according to the latest rankings from Hugging Face, one of the leading platforms for natural language processing (NLP) research and applications. The model, called “Smaug-72B,” was released publicly today by the startup Abacus AI, which helps enterprises solve difficult problems […]

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Apple’s new AI research promises high performance without the high price tag

Language models are powerful tools that can generate natural language for a variety of tasks, such as summarizing, translating, answering questions, and writing essays. But they are also expensive to train and run, especially for specialized domains that require high accuracy and low latency. That’s where Apple’s latest AI research comes in. The iPhone maker […]

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The secret to making language models useful

If you described your symptoms to me as a business leader and I typed them into ChatGPT, would you want me to generate and prescribe a treatment plan for you, sending orders to your local pharmacist — without consulting a doctor? What if you were offered a trade: The top data scientists in the world […]

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GPT-4 Turbo now powers Microsoft Copilot. Here’s how to check if you have access

Join leaders in San Francisco on January 10 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. If you’re a developer, a writer, or simply an AI enthusiast, by now you’ve probably heard of GPT-4, the latest and most powerful language model from OpenAI, the research organization behind ChatGPT. GPT-4 can […]

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New transformer architecture can make language models faster and resource-efficient

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. Large language models like ChatGPT and Llama-2 are notorious for their extensive memory and computational demands, making them costly to run. Trimming even a small fraction of their size can […]

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Snowflake unveils Cortex, a managed service to build LLM apps in the data cloud

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Today, the Montana-based data-as-a-service and cloud storage company Snowflake announced Cortex, a fully managed service that brings the power of large language models (LLMs) into its data cloud. Unveiled at the company’s annual Snowday […]

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