Sparta, a startup that provides live market intelligence and forecasting insight for commodity traders, has announced a series A funding round of $17.5 million. The funding round was led by technology venture capital firm FirstMark, alongside existing shareholder Singular.
The startup has built a platform that aims to transform the way traders gather, process, analyze and interpret data to inform…
Google adds AI image generation to Search — but there’s a catch
October 14, 2023
Google‘s artificial intelligence (AI) image generator for the masses is here … sort of.
Hot on the heels of Adobe’s new Firefly 2 AI image generator, and OpenAI releasing its new DALL-E 3 image generator broadly within ChatGPT Plus (and offering it through…
Creative software giant Adobe has been walking a bit of a tightrope when it comes to generative AI: while it has embraced the technology to release a host of new features for its users, such as the well-received Generative Fill in Photoshop and Firefly text-to-image…
The acceleration of technological change is evident everywhere, and it’s benefiting games in unseen ways. In 2016, King had only 2,000 levels for Candy Crush Saga.
As the publisher King turns 20, there are now 15,000 levels for Candy Crush Saga, which has helped the company generate $20 billion in revenue and five billion downloads to date. The game had 238 million monthly active users in the…
The second annual HOLL·AI·WOOD AI Film and AI Games Festival took place in San Francisco on Tuesday night and offered us a preview of the future for both passive and interactive entertainment.
Edward Saatchi, CEO of Fable Studios and an organizer of the event, said more…
Customer insights platform Pathlight plans to rely on AI agents to extract strategic insights from large amounts of customer conversations in a way no human could manage alone, it announced this week. However, bringing this ambitious agent-powered vision to life posed…
As Meta, Character AI place bets on ‘fun’ chatbots, problems lurk behind AI-generated smiles
October 12, 2023
In a new Forbes report, high-flying AI chatbot startup Character AI, which is rumored to be in early funding talks at a whopping $5 billion valuation, is bringing its conversational characters to a new group chat function that allows users to talk to their favorite celebs, like Taylor Swift, with friends and family.
Character AI started the AI character craze when it was launched in September…
Ottawa, Ontario (CAN)-based AI governance firm NuEnergy.ai has secured a U.S. patent on its Machine Trust Index (MTI) methodology, a standardized measurement for artificial intelligence (AI) oversight.
The milestone comes as competition intensifies in the complex, quickly…
Few technology vendors have as broad an enterprise software portfolio as OpenText, and it’s a portfolio that is now being broadly enabled with generative AI capabilities.
The new OpenText Aviator effort is launching today as a set of AI capabilities in the OpenText Cloud…
The open-source alternatives to GPT-4 Vision are coming
October 12, 2023
The landscape of generative artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly with the advent of large multimodal models (LMM). These models are transforming the way we interact with AI systems, allowing us to use both images and text as input. OpenAI’s GPT-4 Vision is a leading example of this technology, but its closed-source and commercial nature can limit its use in certain…
