A day after OpenAI announced that it will offer new built-in support for users to fine-tune its GPT-3.5 Turbo large language model (LLM), which allows enterprises to bring their proprietary data for training the model and run it at scale, the company named Scale AI as its “preferred partner” to provide GPT-3.5 fine tuning.
“We are excited to partner with OpenAI to supercharge model…
Modular looks to boost AI mojo with $100M funding raise
August 25, 2023
Make no mistake about it, there is a lot of excitement and money in early stage AI.
A year and a half after being founded, and only four months after the first previews of its technology, AI startup Modular announced today that it has raised $100 million, bringing total…
Another big gun is entering the AI race.
Korean internet giant Naver today announced the launch of HyperCLOVA X, its next-generation large language model (LLM) that delivers conversational AI experiences through a question-answering chatbot called CLOVA X.
The company said…
Princeton University’s ‘AI Snake Oil’ authors say generative AI hype has ‘spiraled out of control’
August 24, 2023
Back in 2019, Princeton University’s Arvind Narayanan, a professor of computer science and expert on algorithmic fairness, AI and privacy, shared a set of slides on Twitter called “AI Snake Oil.” The presentation, which claimed that “much of what’s being sold as ‘AI’ today is snake oil. It does not and cannot work,” quickly went viral.
Narayanan, who was recently named director…
OpenAI now allows enterprises to fine-tune GPT-3.5 Turbo
August 24, 2023
As more and more enterprises look to power their internal workflows with generative AI, OpenAI is working to make implementation better for them. Case in point: the latest move from the Sam Altman-led company is to offer new built-in support for users to fine-tune its…
At its annual Signal conference today, Twilio is announcing a significant expansion of its customer artificial intelligence (AI) tools, dubbed CustomerAI.
Twilio has been steadily building out its partnerships and technologies for AI over the course of 2023 in the lead-up to…
Midjourney, one of the startups at the bleeding edge of generative AI imagery, debuted a generative infill feature that users have already dubbed a potential game-changer, putting it in more direct competition with Adobe Photoshop’s Generative Fill.
An increasingly popular use of AI-powered image generation tools is to add entirely new elements within preexisting images, elements that fit the…
Hollywood has been largely shut down for more than 100 days now, after the union representing screenwriters, the Writers Guild of America (WGA), voted to go on strike on May 1. The writers were soon followed by the actors’ union, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation…
Meet SeamlessM4T, the Meta AI model that can translate 100 languages into speech or text
August 23, 2023
As part of its broader effort to remove language barriers and keep people connected, Meta has developed a multilingual foundational model that can understand nearly 100 languages from speech or text and generate translations into either or both in real time.
Officially…
Looking to gain the speed, scale and time-to-market advantages that multicloud tech stacks provide their new digital-first business initiatives, making micro-segmentation table stakes is essential for protecting future growth.
Gartner predicts that through 2023, at least 99% of cloud security failures will be the user’s fault. Getting microsegmentation right in multicloud configurations can…
