Over the past year, we’ve witnessed dramatic strides in AI development and huge shifts in public perceptions of the technology. Chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and LLMs like GPT-4 have demonstrated remarkable abilities to communicate fluently and perform at or near the highest level on a broad range of cognitive assessments. Companies that are integral to the AI ecosystem (like Nvidia) have…
When Open AI first released ChatGPT, it seemed to me like an oracle. Trained on vast swaths of data, loosely representing the sum of human interests and knowledge available online, this statistical prediction machine might, I thought, serve as a single source of truth. As a…
ServiceNow expands platform with additional generative AI capabilities to ease enterprise productivity
July 29, 2023
Low-code enterprise automation company ServiceNow has announced the expansion of its Now platform’s generative AI capabilities, introducing case summarization and text-to-code features. The company said these advancements aim to drive speed, productivity and value for…
Tech company Devar is getting ready to launch the world’s first generative AI neural network for AR that allows people to create 3D objects and others AR assets.
The company’s Generative AR Platform brings together neural networks and cloud solutions to create AR content, including MyWebAR by Devar, a service launched in 2021 for creating AR content on the web. Together, it lets people create…
If you’ve wanted a top-tier robot vacuum but were put off by the sometimes outlandish prices, now’s your time to act. Amazon is once more selling iRobot’s Roomba s9+ at a record low of $600, or 40 percent off. That’s the best we’ve seen since…
Montreal startup HumanFirst raises $5M to transform organizations’ conversational data into no-code AI
July 26, 2023
Imagine you run a customer service desk at a company. You quickly notice that your employees spend a good chunk of their day answering the same questions from different customers. Wouldn’t it be nice to automate those responses and let AI answer them, freeing up your human…
Cyclops raises $6.4M in seed funding to launch AI-powered cybersecurity search platform
July 26, 2023
Cybersecurity startup Cyclops Security announced its public launch today, unveiling a new search platform aimed at helping security teams cut through the complexity of disparate data sources. The company also announced $6.4 million in seed funding from a group of prominent investors including CrowdStrike Falcon Fund, Insight Partners, Merlin Ventures and Tal Ventures.
Founded in 2022 by…
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…
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 Insider yesterday that inside Adobe, some employees are concerned that Adobe’s Firefly AI tools and Photoshop Generative Fill…
