Yoav Shoham, Co-CEO of a leading large language model (LLM) company A121, reacts to comments made recently by Amazon and others that imply LLMs are losing their differentiation.
He disagrees, saying: “Models do differentiate.”
Shoham’s company, AI21, is a provider of AI systems for enterprise companies, and it specializes in offering task-specific LLMs, including models that do text…
In VentureBeat’s reporting on generative AI, one company in particular stands out among enterprise companies for speed and adeptness at deploying the technology at scale.
That company is Intuit. In September, Intuit introduced an LLM-drive assistant, called Intuit Assist…
Looking back at a transformative year for AI
December 4, 2023
It has been a year since OpenAI quietly launched ChatGPT as a “research preview,” a chatbot based on a large language model (LLM).
LLMs are a particular implementation of transformer neural networks, a technology that first surfaced in a 2017 paper from Google.
ChatGPT…
Highlights from the AWS re:Invent keynote: Q AI, strong bedrock foundation, and a smarter cloud
November 29, 2023
Amazon is growing its already formidable array of AI services, with a long list of new capabilities announced at the annual AWS re:Invent 2023 conference in Las Vegas today.
In a wide ranging keynote session that was nearly 2.5 hours long, Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the largest cloud provider in the world by revenue, number of customers, and data stored, detailed the…
Micro1, a Los Angeles-based startup, is aiming to transform how companies build engineering teams in the AI age. The company announced last month it raised $3.3 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round to expand its AI-powered recruiting platform. With the new…
Today, Pika Labs, a six-month-old video AI startup, announced it has raised $35 million in a series A round of funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, alongside earlier side rounds, putting the total raised by the young firm at $55 million.
The company also unveiled…
xAI, the company Elon Musk founded to take on OpenAI and other startups racing in the elusive AI space, is set to launch its first offering ‘Grok’ this week. The billionaire, known for companies like Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink, has announced that the AI chatbot will be integrated into the X platform (formerly Twitter) as part of an early access program.
The company has already opened signups…
Sam Altman and Adam D’Angelo reunite for Thanksgiving following OpenAI boardroom drama
November 28, 2023
Just days after the drama over his firing and reinstatement as CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman spent a few hours on Thanksgiving with his old friend and OpenAI board member Adam D’Angelo.
Altman tweeted about the gathering, saying he had a “really nice few hours” with…
Generative AI is a toddler — don’t let it run your business
November 26, 2023
Cutting-edge technology and young kids may initially seem completely unrelated, but some AI systems and toddlers have more in common than you might think. Just like curious toddlers who poke into everything, AI learns through data-driven exploration of huge amounts of…
Anthropic slashes AI pricing amid rising competition
November 25, 2023
For enterprise companies exploring opportunities in conversational artificial intelligence (AI), a new development promises greater access and affordability. Anthropic, a leading AI model lab, today dropped the per-token pricing of its conversational model Claude 2.1 release in response to growing competition from other large players, but perhaps more importantly, open source options.
“As more…
