I’ve been on the AI beat for a year and a half, but my colleague Dean Takahashi, who leads our GamesBeat publication, has been covering the gaming industry for 27 years — 15 of those years right here at VentureBeat. And he doesn’t just cover games, mind you — he reports on all things chips, hardware and R&D as well.
I joke that Dean has probably seen a thousand tech trends rise and…
At the Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas today — the nation’s largest hacking conference — the Biden-Harris administration announced the launch of a two-year open competition to explore how AI can be used to protect and defend the U.S.’s most vital software…
Microsoft unveils next-gen AI solutions to boost frontline productivity amid labor challenges
August 10, 2023
Microsoft today unveiled a suite of tools and integrations designed to empower frontline workers across the globe. Central to this release is an innovative Copilot offering, which harnesses the capabilities of generative AI to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of…
Weights and Biases is looking to grow its generative AI and LLMops efforts with a new $50 million funding raise announced today.
The round was led by Daniel Gross and the former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, with participation from Sapphire Ventures, Coatue, Insight Partners, Felicis, BOND and BloombergBeta. The new funding gives the San Francisco based startup a valuation of $1.25 billion.
Weights and…
OpenAI launches web crawling GPTBot, sparking blocking effort by website owners and creators
August 10, 2023
Without fanfare or an official announcement, ChatGPT maker OpenAI launched a new website crawling bot this week for scanning website content to train its large language models (LLMs). But after news of the bot broke, a revolt ensued, as website owners and creators quickly…
Today is a busy day of news from Nvidia as the AI leader takes the wraps off a series of new developments at the annual SIGGRAPH conference.
On the hardware front, one of the biggest developments from the company is the announcement of a new version of the GH200 Grace Hopper…
San Francisco-based Amplitude, the product analytics player that helps companies study consumer behavior to make necessary optimizations and drive better returns, today expanded its core platform with new AI smarts, namely new features called Data Assistant and Ask Amplitude.
The capabilities use large language models (LLMs) to help enterprises consistently measure their data quality and more…
Torq, a provider of security hyper-automation solutions, today announced the launch of Torq Socrates, an AI agent specifically designed for security operations. The company said that by utilizing large language models (LLMs), Socrates hyper-automates critical security…
CodeSignal, a San Francisco-based startup that provides coding assessments for technical recruiting, announced today several major platform upgrades leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to better evaluate software engineering candidates.
The company rolled out several new…
How MIT’s Liquid Neural Networks can solve AI problems from robotics to self-driving cars
August 3, 2023
In the current artificial intelligence (AI) landscape, the buzz around large language models (LLMs) has led to a race toward creating increasingly larger neural networks. However, not every application can support the computational and memory demands of very large deep learning models.
The constraints of these environments have led to some interesting research directions. Liquid neural networks, a…
