Reka, the AI startup founded by researchers from DeepMind, Google, Baidu and Meta, has announced Yasa-1, a multimodal AI assistant that goes beyond text to understand images, short videos and audio snippets.
Available in private preview, Yasa-1 can be customized on private datasets of any modality, allowing enterprises to build new experiences for a myriad of use cases. The assistant supports 20…
Canva, the Australian online graphic design and multimedia company whose web-based platform is used by numerous media organizations worldwide to create graphics and multimedia (including VentureBeat), is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a sweeping update of numerous AI…
Dell customizes GenAI and focuses on data lakehouse
October 5, 2023
Dell Technologies is growing its portfolio of generative AI products and services to help more of its customers harness the power of artificial intelligence.
Today Dell announced a series of initiatives that expand on the company’s generative AI efforts that it has been…
Google Assistant gets generative AI upgrade with Bard
October 5, 2023
Google has announced a new personal assistant that aims to make conversations with artificial inteligence more natural, intuitive, and useful. Assistant with Bard, which is powered by generative AI, combines the capabilities of Google’s existing voice assistant with Bard, a large language model that can generate and reason with text, voice, and images.
Assistant with Bard is still an early…
Meta’s AI stickers are here and already causing controversy
October 5, 2023
Well, that didn’t take long: Just a week after Meta announced a “universe of AI” for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, the company’s new AI-generated stickers are already causing controversy.
Some users have already received an update allowing them to quickly create…
Whether or not you subscribe to the “butterfly effect” — coined by meteorologist Edward Lorenz in 1961, the theorem states that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil could, through a chain of various interlinked meteorological events, ultimately cause a tornado in…
Microsoft’s AutoGen framework allows multiple AI agents to talk to each other and complete your tasks
October 4, 2023
Microsoft has joined the race for large language model (LLM) application frameworks with its open source Python library, AutoGen.
As described by Microsoft, AutoGen is “a framework for simplifying the orchestration, optimization, and automation of LLM workflows.” The fundamental concept behind AutoGen is the creation of “agents,” which are programming modules powered by LLMs such as GPT-4.
As enterprises across sectors look to adopt new AI tools and technologies, one issue standing in their way is concerns among leaders and employees about the trustworthiness and risks of these systems.
In response to this challenge, Toronto-based startup Armilla AI’s…
This will be an unpopular take: I believe AI is teetering on the edge of a disillusionment cliff. Whether that goes beyond Gartner’s famous “trough,” and whether it lasts, remains to be seen. But something is shifting — and it’s not just the slight early-autumn…
Asana adds new AI smarts to simplify project management
October 4, 2023
Today, enterprise work management platform Asana strengthened its offering with a slew of AI smarts aimed at helping organizations improve how they work and deliver business outcomes.
Leveraging the company’s proprietary Work Graph, which captures the relationship between the work a team does, the information about that work and the people doing the work, the features allow executives to tap AI…
