If you’ve tried out at least a few of the text-to-image AI art generation services that have launched in the past few years, such as Midjourney or OpenAI’s various versions of DALL-E, you have likely noticed some commonalities. Chief among them: all pretty much resemble a chat interface. There’s typically a space for the user to enter their text prompts and then the application responds with…
1 in 4 American workers fear AI will take their jobs
December 6, 2023
Ask the average American worker how happy they are with their life and work, and you’ll get a mixed bag of results.
One recent study found that 64% of Americans are more stressed than last year, with 25% saying their stress level is much higher now. Two thirds admit to…
Arcweave raises $850k to build AI-powered game creation tools
December 6, 2023
Narrative design platform Arcweave announced today that it has closed its seed round of funding, raising over $850,000. Galaxy Interactive led the round with Genesis Ventures participating. Arcweave plans to use the funding to build out its platform, as well as a…
Open-source SuperDuperDB brings AI into enterprise databases
December 6, 2023
San Francisco-based SuperDuperDB, an Intel Ignite portfolio company working to simplify how teams build and deploy AI apps, today released version 0.1 of its open-source framework.
Available as a Python package, the framework allows users to integrate AI — from machine learning (ML) models to their AI application programming interface (API) of choice — and vector search capabilities with…
Nous Research, a private applied research group known for publishing open-source work in the large language model (LLM) domain, has dropped a lightweight vision-language model called Nous Hermes 2 Vision.
Available via Hugging Face, the open-source model builds on the…
VentureBeat recently sat down (virtually) with Nir Valtman, CEO and co-founder of Arnica. Valtman’s extensive cybersecurity experience includes leading product and data security across Finastra, establishing and hardening security practices and posture management at…
Asato: A new AI copilot for CIOs
December 6, 2023
Digital transformation is critical for modern enterprises. However, it has also made the CIO role incredibly challenging. They have to deal with data sprawl, SaaS apps all over the place, purchases and expenses not being well tracked and usage not being easy to pin down.
In this complicated environment, “the CIO is caught surprised,” Sundari Mitra, CEO and co-founder of startup Asato, told…
IBM, Meta launch AI Alliance with over 50 tech members to advance ‘open, safe, responsible’ AI
December 6, 2023
IBM and Meta launched the new AI Alliance today, in collaboration with more than 50 founding members and collaborators around the world, including AMD, Anyscale, CERN, Cerebras, Cleveland Clinic, Cornell University, Dartmouth, Dell Technologies, EPFL, ETH, Hugging Face…
Runway ML is partnering with Getty Images on new AI video models for Hollywood and advertising
December 6, 2023
Runway ML, the New York City video AI startup backed by Google and Nvidia, continues to entrench itself in the marketplace of the future.
Today, the company announced it is partnering with Getty Images, one of the largest repositories of paid stock imagery and editorial…
Last week, a team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley published a highly anticipated paper in the journal Nature describing an “autonomous laboratory” or “A-Lab” that aimed to use artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to accelerate the discovery and synthesis of new materials.
Dubbed a “self-driving lab,” the A-Lab presented an ambitious vision of what an…
