Read AI, a prominent player in AI technology for meeting summaries, has secured a significant $21 million in Series A funding led by Goodwater Capital and participated in by existing investor Madrona Venture Group. This funding will fuel the company’s mission of revolutionizing the future of work by integrating artificial intelligence into every work interaction. […]
Two new open-source large language models have emerged as competitors to closed-source giants like OpenAI and Anthropic. AI21 Labs introduced Jamba, a hybrid model that combines a Transformer with a state space model, showing comparable performance to larger models on various benchmarks while significantly reducing memory usage. Jamba also boasts the ability to process the […]
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is engaging in fast-tracked discussions with tech companies as their electricity demands for AI data centers continue to surge. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm highlighted the pressing need for power, emphasizing that AI itself isn’t the issue but can provide solutions. To tackle this challenge, the Department of Energy is contemplating […]
Apple researchers have unveiled the ReALM system, an innovative artificial intelligence that understands ambiguous references on screens and contextual cues, enhancing interactions with voice assistants. Published in a recent paper, the system transforms reference resolution tasks into a language modeling problem, achieving significant advancements over existing methods.With a focus on conversational assistants, ReALM excels at […]
The hype surrounding generative AI appears to be ill-founded, with numerous drawbacks plaguing the technology leading to disappointments and setbacks for businesses that invested in it. Issues such as misinformation, plagiarizing, high energy consumption, and unreliability are casting doubts on the practicality and dependability of generative AI. According to cognitive scientist Gary Marcus, businesses […]
Elon Musk’s AI startup, X.ai, has unveiled its latest generative AI model, Grok-1.5, which is poised to enhance the capabilities of the social network X’s Grok chatbot in the near future. The new model boasts significant improvements, particularly in its reasoning abilities related to coding and mathematics. Grok-1.5 outperformed its predecessor, Grok-1, on various benchmarks, […]
Darren Shimkus, former president of Udemy, and Dennis Yang, ex-CEO of Udemy, have teamed up to tackle the challenge of skills building in the corporate sector with their new startup, Modal. Modal provides personalized technical skills training for companies, offering on-demand coaching and a pedagogical approach that groups users into semi-structured online learning communities. The […]
Resemble AI has introduced a new feature called Rapid Voice Cloning, aimed at simplifying the voice cloning process for enterprise users. This technology allows users to create voice clones from short data sets in just about a minute, significantly reducing the time and effort required. By providing a clear audio sample lasting 10 seconds to […]
Uber is expanding its autonomous food delivery service in collaboration with Waymo, aiming to eliminate the need for food delivery drivers. This partnership, initially launched in the Phoenix metropolitan area, allows customers to place orders via the Uber Eats app, with Waymo’s driverless vehicles completing the deliveries. The service marks a significant step towards fully […]
Stability AI has introduced Stable Audio 2.0, the latest version of its music creation software capable of generating a three-minute long track from a single text prompt. This upgraded platform can produce an intro, main track, and an ending, mimicking a traditional song structure. While this development showcases technical prowess, questions linger around the usefulness […]
The AI chatbot Grok, like its creator Elon Musk, faces scrutiny for its vulnerabilities to inappropriate requests and jailbreak attempts by researchers at Adversa AI. Grok, along with six other leading chatbots, was tested for safety and found to be susceptible to jailbreak techniques. Notably, Grok performed the worst in terms of security across categories, […]
The “lottery ticket hypothesis,” introduced in a 2019 paper by Jonathan Frankle and Michael Carbin, suggests that large AI programs can contain smaller sections capable of similar performance with less memory and fewer operations. A recent study by Andrey Gromov and colleagues explores this idea further, demonstrating that removing deep layers from models like Meta’s […]
The UK and the US have forged a partnership following the EU’s recent approval of the risk-based AI Act. This collaboration aims to establish testing procedures and guidelines on AI safety by leveraging the capabilities and expertise of both countries. The plan involves developing tests for advanced AI models, creating tools for risk evaluation, and […]
Tech giants including Accenture, Eightfold, Google, IBM, Indeed, Intel, Microsoft, and SAP have joined forces in a new consortium to address the repercussions of job losses due to artificial intelligence (AI) adoption. This initiative, named the AI-Enabled Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Workforce Consortium, aims to assist individuals who have been or will be displaced […]
Salesforce, a prominent CRM company led by Marc Benioff, has unveiled plans to enhance Mulesoft’s automation, integration, and API management solutions with new AI tools shortly after launching Einstein Copilot for Tableau. These new features set to roll out in the upcoming months include an Intelligent Document Processing tool for extracting and organizing data from […]
San Francisco-based AI developer Higgsfield has successfully secured an $8 million seed funding round that it plans to reinvest in its video creation tools tailored for marketers engaging with social media content. The company emphasizes responsible AI development and the democratization of AI video creation, distancing itself from creating feature-length AI-generated videos for movies. Led […]
In a recent report by BrightEdge, the AI-first search engine Perplexity is gaining traction by showing promising referral traffic growth and relevant search results. Despite concerns about the impact of AI on SEO efforts, the study indicates that Perplexity is effectively directing traffic to brand websites. Perplexity’s success is viewed as a potential threat […]
In a recent AI hackathon in San Francisco, a new artificial intelligence benchmark inspired by the classic arcade game Street Fighter III was unveiled. The open-source LLM Colosseum benchmark, created by Stan Girard and Quivr Brain, allows large language models (LLMs) to compete against each other in the emulator version of the game, showcasing unconventional […]
OpenAI’s latest AI tool, Sora, which generates videos from text prompts, has sparked controversy over potential copyright infringement issues. The uncertainty surrounding how Sora is trained, including the use of YouTube content, has prompted a response from YouTube’s CEO Neal Mohan. Mohan made it clear that using YouTube videos to train Sora would violate the […]
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