Protect AI, an AI and machine learning (ML) security company, announced it has successfully raised $35 million in a series A funding round. Evolution Equity Partners led the round and saw participation from Salesforce Ventures and existing investors Acrew Capital, boldstart ventures, Knollwood Capital and Pelion Ventures.
Founded by Ian Swanson, who previously led Amazon Web Services’…
From data chaos to data products: How enterprises can unlock the power of generative AI
July 26, 2023
Many large enterprises are eager to experiment with generative AI and the large language models (LLMs) that power it, hoping to gain a competitive edge in a range of fields from customer service to product design, marketing and entertainment.
But before they can unleash…
Scott Belsky, chief product officer of Adobe, told VentureBeat on X-formerly-known-as-Twitter yesterday that while some industries “may not need to exist in the age of AI,” graphic designers will continue to flourish. His comments come following a report by Business…
Fermyon Technologies is expanding its serverless WebAssembly cloud platform today with the integration of a NoOps database to help developers more rapidly build applications.
WebAssembly is an increasingly popular and capable platform that can enable a developer to write code in any number of different programming languages, then have it run in an optimized runtime environment on-premises or in…
Stability AI levels up image generation with new Stable Diffusion base model for better image composition
July 26, 2023
Stability AI is out today with a new Stable Diffusion base model that dramatically improves image quality and users’ ability to generate highly detailed images with just a text prompt.
Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) 1.0 is the new, leading-edge flagship text-to-image…
Stability AI unveils new FreeWilly language models trained using minimal — and highly synthetic — data
July 26, 2023
There’s a new large language model (LLM) in town — two of them, in fact — and ’90s kids will immediately recognize their names: FreeWilly1 and FreeWilly2.
Unveiled on Friday by Stability AI, the company behind the Stable Diffusion image generation AI and founded by…
What the viral AI-generated ‘Barbenheimer’ trailer says about generative AI hype | The AI Beat
July 26, 2023
A new AI-generated movie trailer that splices together the wildly-hyped movies Barbie and Oppenheimer into a mashup — featuring a pink mushroom cloud — has gone viral.
The trailer offers a spot-on sendup on the “Barbenheimer” hype that had moviegoers flocking to see both movies back-to-back, even though the two films couldn’t be more different — Oppenheimer is a sober biopic about…
Sysdig Sage brings power of generative AI to cloud security with an LLM controller approach
July 26, 2023
Sysdig has been growing its open source-based cloud monitoring and security platform for the past decade.
While machine learning (ML) has been part of the Sysdig platform for several years, like many other vendors in 2023, the company is now jumping into the generative AI…
OpenText is enhancing its growing software portfolio with the integration of AI capabilities to help enterprises better utilize and benefit from data.
The company has been in the enterprise software business for decades and its portfolio has grown a whole lot bigger thanks…
Genpact and Microsoft have announced a strategic collaboration that will grant Genpact’s global talent access to Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. This partnership aims to unlock fresh possibilities in implementing generative AI capabilities and solutions for its joint clients.
Genpact plans to leverage large language models (LLMs) to harness the potential of gen AI, driving enterprise…
