California-based Nucleus AI, a four-member startup with talent from Amazon and Samsung Research, today emerged from stealth with the launch of its first product: a 22-billion-parameter large language model (LLM).
Available under an open-source MIT license and commercial license, the general-purpose model sits between 13B and 34B segments and can be fine-tuned for different generation tasks and…
IBM propels PyTorch beyond model training into AI inference
October 6, 2023
The open source PyTorch machine learning (ML) framework is widely used today for AI training, but that’s not all it can do. IBM sees broader applicability for PyTorch and is working on a series of development initiatives that will see PyTorch used for inferencing.
In an…
Atropos Health leverages AI to democratize access to real-world evidence in healthcare
October 6, 2023
Atropos Health, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based healthcare startup, unveiled today a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that could revolutionize how evidence is produced to inform medical decisions and research.
The startup’s Geneva Operating System (OS) leverages…
For the past month, Mustafa Suleyman has been making the rounds of promoting his recent book The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma.
Suleyman, the DeepMind cofounder who is now cofounder and CEO of Inflection AI (which set off fireworks in June for its $1.3 billion funding), may reasonably be all-talked-out after a slew of interviews about his…
AI is driving more phone scams | Hiya
October 6, 2023
AI is driving more phone scams and the average mobile phone user is now getting 14 spam calls a month, according to a report by Hiya, a provider of voice security solutions.
Hiya unveiled the findings of its latest study on phone fraud and spam. The research highlighted a…
Kicking off a kind of CES in October, Samsung Electronics showcased new SmartThings appliance connectivity features and an updated Samsung Knox Matrix, emphasizing sustainability and security. It’s also adding more AI capability to its products.
Samsung’s vision of the…
San Mateo-based Observe, a startup working to accelerate application troubleshooting and incident resolution with a unified observability cloud, today announced it has raised $50 million in series A3 debt financing, led by Sutter Hill Ventures. The company also debuted the latest version of its platform ‘Hubble’ with new generative AI smarts.
According to Observe, the release brings a revamped…
Text-to-text large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Meta’s Llama 2, Anthropic’s Claude 2 have been at the center of the current AI gold rush in Silicon Valley and the wider enterprise tech world — but by and large, all of them share some of the same…
Reka, the AI startup founded by researchers from DeepMind, Google, Baidu and Meta, has announced Yasa-1, a multimodal AI assistant that goes beyond text to understand images, short videos and audio snippets.
Available in private preview, Yasa-1 can be customized on private…
Canva, the Australian online graphic design and multimedia company whose web-based platform is used by numerous media organizations worldwide to create graphics and multimedia (including VentureBeat), is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a sweeping update of numerous AI features, including offering a new generative video tool through a partnership with AI video startup Runway ML.
With…
