Airtable, the $11 billion no-code platform unicorn, has unveiled Cobuilder, an AI-powered tool that generates customizable applications in seconds using natural language prompts. This launch could reshape the landscape of enterprise software development by allowing non-technical employees to build complex applications without coding knowledge. Kelly O’Shaughnessy, head of core product and…
In a surprising announcement today, OpenAI has unveiled SearchGPT, a prototype AI-powered search engine that directly challenges Google’s dominance in the online search market. This bold move signals a significant escalation in the AI search wars and could reshape how…
AI training costs are growing exponentially — IBM says quantum computing could be a solution
July 26, 2024
Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported that a third of nuclear power plants are in talks with tech companies to power their new data centers. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs projected that AI is going to drive a 160% increase in power usage by data centers from now…
Vanta, a startup using AI to automate security compliance, has secured $150 million in Series C funding, vaulting its valuation to $2.45 billion. Sequoia Capital led the round, with Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan joining as investors. This significant cash injection marks a pivotal moment for the four-year-old company and signals a broader shift in how businesses approach trust and security in the…
Developers aren’t worried that gen AI will steal their jobs, Stack Overflow survey reveals
July 25, 2024
Generative AI is having a dramatic impact on many industries, including software development. In a revealing snapshot of the global software development ecosystem, developer knowledge platform Stack Overflow is out today with a new report that exposes a nuanced interplay…
Stability AI is expanding its growing roster of generative AI models, quite literally adding a new dimension with the debut of Stable Video 4D. While there is a growing set of gen AI tools for video generation, including OpenAI’s Sora, Runway, Haiper and Luma AI among…
By embracing liquid cooling, AI powerhouse Supermicro enables 30% more computing power — with the same power budget
July 24, 2024
Charles Liang, CEO of Supermicro, predicts that “the AI revolution can be bigger than the industrial revolution,” and the astonishing growth of Supermicro just in the past year seems to bear out this prediction. Supermicro revenue grew by 200% year over year in the third fiscal quarter, and it’s expected to grow another 152% by the end of the year. Liang spoke at VB Transform 2024 about the…
The rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT has sparked debate about their impact on creativity and the creation of novel ideas. A new study by researchers from the University of College London School of Management and the University of Exeter explores the effect of…
How Chevron is using gen AI to strike oil
July 24, 2024
Oil and gas operations generate an enormous amount of data — a seismic survey in New Mexico, for instance, can provide a file that is a petabyte all by itself. “To turn that into an image that you can make a decision with is a 100 exaflop operation,” Bill Braun…
AI’s new frontier: Hugging Face, Nvidia, and OpenAI lead charge in small language models
July 22, 2024
Three major players in artificial intelligence unveiled compact language models this week, signaling a major shift in the AI industry. Hugging Face, Nvidia in partnership with Mistral AI, and OpenAI have each released small language models (SLMs) that promise to democratize access to advanced natural language processing capabilities. This trend marks a significant departure from the race for…
