Don’t miss OpenAI, Chevron, Nvidia, Kaiser Permanente, and Capital One leaders only at VentureBeat Transform 2024
Prem Akkaraju, former CEO of Weta Digital, appointed as new CEO of Stability AI, replacing Emad Mostaque who departed in March. Amidst financial concerns, Stability AI secures investment from Sean Parker's group and diversifies into code, text, audio, and video AI domains. Founder Mostaque sets off on a new venture named Schelling AI.
Anthropic's Artifacts May Spark an AI 'Interface War'
Anthropic's Artifacts feature revolutionizes AI interaction by offering a dedicated workspace to manipulate and refine AI-generated content seamlessly, redefining the AI interface war and focusing on collaborative integration in the workplace, with profound implications for enterprise software and user experience.
Apple empowers developers with 20 Core ML models and 4 datasets on Hugging Face
Apple collaborates with Hugging Face, releasing 20 Core ML models and 4 datasets to facilitate on-device AI capabilities, enabling developers to create privacy-centric intelligent apps.
GrayMatter Raises $45 Million to Expand Its AI-Powered Robot Solutions for High-Mix, High-Variability Manufacturing
GrayMatter, an AI-powered robotics startup, has raised $45 million to address manufacturing challenges with self-programming robots that handle high-mix, high-variability environments.
PathChat: A New Pathology-Specific LLM That Outperforms Leading Models
PathChat, a pathology-specific LLM, excels in diagnosing tumors and other conditions, outperforming existing models. Trained on comprehensive pathology knowledge, it understands pathology images and clinical text, offering informed advice and supporting research in complex cases.
Oracle Autonomous Database Now Generally Available on Microsoft Azure
Oracle's Autonomous Database is now available on Microsoft Azure, enabling organizations to develop cloud-native applications and migrate workloads with the benefits of Azure's services.
Penguin OriginAI Solution Simplifies AI Implementation and Management with Pre-Validated Architectures and Expert Services
Penguin OriginAI provides validated AI architectures, backed by cluster management software and expert services, to streamline AI implementation and management, ensuring predictable performance and ROI for AI clusters ranging from hundreds to thousands of GPUs.
Women in AI Awards: Celebrate the Inspiring Leaders Shaping the Future of AI
Nominate women for VentureBeat's Women in AI Awards, Safe Superintelligence Inc. founded by ex-OpenAI scientist Ilya Sutskever, aiming to develop safe superintelligence through tandem focus on capabilities and safety.
Microsoft's Florence-2: A Unified Vision Foundation Model for Diverse Tasks
Microsoft's new Florence-2 vision foundation model for AI unifies vision tasks with high performance.
Physics PhD dropout raises $15 million for AI startup Factory
Former physics student Matan Grinberg raised $15 million for AI startup Factory, which uses AI to streamline coding tasks for businesses.
Maxim: AI evaluation startup Maxim lands $3M to help enterprises deploy generative AI models
** Tech startup Maxim offers end-to-end platform for testing and improving generative AI applications' quality and safety.
Celebrate Women Leaders in AI: Nominate Now for VentureBeat's Awards
ElevenLabs releases an open-source tool to generate sound effects for videos using its AI sound effects API.
The AI hype bubble: How to spot the difference between signal and noise
Women in AI Awards nominations until June 18; early AI innovators often don't persist; AI hype influenced by ChatGPT; consider startups' data control and cybersecurity measures; regulation and cybersecurity impact scaling; data quality and access determine startup success; hype cycle continues with model advancements; listen to builders for industry insights.
It's Time to Recognize the Incredible Women Leading AI: Nominate for VentureBeat’s Women in AI Awards
Celebrate Women in AI Awards; AI enhances human decision-making, but humans remain crucial; implement behavioral science principles for optimal data-driven decisions: set criteria beforehand, document opinions, clarify biases, discuss underlying judgments, and set kill criteria.
Luma AI’s Dream Machine Beta Shows High Demand for AI Video Generation
Luma AI's Dream Machine, a new AI video generation model, is experiencing high demand and wait times due to its popularity.
Set sail for adventure, pirates.
Four games join GeForce NOW: Sea of Thieves, Disney Speedstorm, SunnySide, and Bodycam.
Women in AI Breakfast and Awards Returning for Sixth Year at VentureBeat Transform 2024
The Women in AI Breakfast and Awards return to Transform 2024, focusing on the ROI of generative AI and the role of women leaders in shaping its future.
Nemotron-4 340B: The Game-Changing Model Democratizing Synthetic Data Generation for LLMs
Nominate inspiring women leading in AI for VentureBeat's Women in AI Awards by June 18.
NVIDIA Announces Nemotron-4 340B, Open Models for Synthetic Data Generation
NVIDIA's Nemotron-4 340B offers free synthetic data generation models for training LLMs, enhancing accuracy and expanding applications across various industries.
Gemini AI model outperforms humans in sleep and fitness advice
Google’s PH-LLM outperforms human experts in sleep and fitness advice, leveraging time-series personal health data from wearables to provide personalized insights and recommendations.
Gen AI Revolution Extends to the Edge: Empowering Personalization, Creativity and Innovation
AI is moving from the cloud to the edge and client devices, bringing personalized, efficient, and creative benefits. AI PCs and software enable AI applications to run on devices, eliminating delays and privacy concerns. AI empowers creativity and productivity, with optimized hardware and software enabling seamless integration into workflows. Edge computing is crucial for real-time processing and data analysis, enabling applications such as smart city traffic management. Challenges include privacy and energy efficiency. The future of AI is at the edge and in our hands, reshaping our digital experience and pushing the boundaries of technology.
Jace: A new LLM-powered AI agent that can execute in-browser actions on command
Zeta Labs launches Jace, an AI agent that executes in-browser actions. It raised $2.9 million in funding to improve its capabilities.
Gogoro’s Battery-Swap Network Helps Taiwan’s Grid Stay Resilient
Gogoro's vast battery-swap network becomes a valuable resource in a VPP system, providing flexibility by choosing when to charge batteries and supplying grid power during emergencies.
The Balance Between Competition and Collaboration in New Energies, a Climate-Themed Catan Edition
Catan: New Energies game minimizes 'climate change' to avoid preaching, focuses on pollution with competition and collaboration, aiming for entertainment over accuracy.
VB Transform 2024 returns this July!
Cisco invests $1 billion in AI startups, supporting generative AI and LLMs, to bridge the gap between lab and enterprise use cases in the rapidly growing AI market.
Street Fighter 6 punches its way into the cloud this GFN Thursday
Capcom’s Street Fighter 6 and Ubisoft’s XDefiant join GeForce NOW library, offering free Game Pass for new members.
Transform 2024 returns this July!
Adobe releases major AEP AI Assistant update for its real-time customer experience management solution, enabling marketers to effortlessly access insights, create personalized content, and leverage predictive analytics through a conversational AI interface.
Driving influence through expertise
IC executives succeed through expertise in identifying and solving impactful problems, building strong relationships, and focusing on technical expertise, problem structuring, and hands-on involvement.
A Potential Energy Advantage
Dillavou's circuit, inspired by neural networks, exhibits "emergent learning" and potential energy advantages. As an analog computer, it offers greater efficiency than digital chips with increased scaling. Its neuromorphic design eliminates dedicated memory components and operates through bottom-up feedback, aligning with brain-like functions. Despite industry interest in its energy efficiency, the circuit remains a prototype with unconfirmed energy savings.
NV-Embed: Improved Techniques for Training LLMs as Generalist Embedding Models
New NV-Embed model from NVIDIA improves representation learning by implementing a latent attention layer and eliminating attention masks during contrasting training, significantly enhancing decoder-only LLMs in embedding and retrieval tasks without proprietary data.
What mind-altering drug is next in line for FDA approval?
FDA approval for MDMA may include risk mitigation strategies, such as specialized certifications for providers or limited distribution in licensed facilities, to prevent potential harm.
The Algorithm - Deeper Learning
AI conference had global speakers, but emphasis on good use overlooks negative impacts.
Data Modernization: The Disconnect Between Data and the Business
Data modernization aims to improve decision-making, support AI, and boost efficiency. However, alignment between data strategy and business goals is lacking, with executives citing poor data quality and timeliness as key pain points. Cross-functional teams and DataOps are emerging as solutions, but compliance and security concerns, along with high costs, remain obstacles.
Yotta CEO Sunil Gupta on Supercharging India’s Fast-Growing AI Market – Ep. 225
India's AI market is poised for growth. Yotta Data Services offers Shakti Cloud, providing scalable GPU services for businesses with India's fastest AI supercomputing infrastructure.
A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence
Employees at OpenAI and Google DeepMind urge protection against retaliation for expressing concerns about AI risks due to confidentiality agreements.
Foundation Agents: A New Approach to AI Decision-Making in the Physical World
One week left to request an invite to the June 5th AI Impact Tour where experts will explore auditing AI models and the potential of foundation agents, AI systems capable of open-ended decision-making in the physical world, by applying principles from foundation models that have revolutionized computer vision and natural language processing.
Edge AI and Private LLMs powered by NPUs
Kneron unveils its next-generation AI hardware and software technologies, including the KL830 NPU, KNEO 330 Edge GPT server, and updated training and fine-tuning capabilities, for efficient edge AI inference and private GPT deployments.
GamesBeat and Lil Snack Partner for Customized Games
GamesBeat and Lil Snack partner for custom games; Hailo's AI processors in Raspberry Pi 5 for advanced AI capabilities in home automation, security, and robotics.
Time's almost up!
Apply for the AI Impact Tour in NYC on June 5th to learn about auditing AI models. Crystal Sonic, a semiconductor startup, won the Lam Capital Venture Competition and $250,000 investment.
AMD CEO Lisa Su discusses the company’s Computex 2024 keynote
GamesBeat partners with Lil Snack for custom games; AMD unveils plans for AI data centers, PCs including expanded Instinct accelerator roadmap, 5th Gen AMD Epyc processors, Ryzen AI 300 Series mobile processors, and Ryzen 9000 Series desktop processors; AMD showcases AI and adaptive computing technology for edge AI innovation.