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Microsoft releases powerful new Phi-3.5 models, beating Google, OpenAI and more

Microsoft isn’t resting its AI success on the laurels of its partnership with OpenAI. No, far from it. Instead, the company often known as Redmond for its headquarters location in Washington state today came out swinging with the release of 3 new models in its evolving Phi series of language/multimodal AI.   The three new Phi 3.5 models include the 3.82 billion parameter…
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How Piramidal is using AI to decode the human brain

The human brain is ultimately one of the last frontiers — a paradoxical black box that we can’t even begin to understand ourselves.But what if, just as paradoxically, AI could interpret the complexities of the brain to help identify and diagnose some of our most serious…
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Skyfire launches to let autonomous AI agents spend money on your behalf

A new San Francisco startup, Skyfire, is launching today in beta with $8.5 million in seed round funding to become the “Visa for AI” by allowing you to equip autonomous AI agents made by other companies with your money and let them spend it while they go off on and work for you. “We’re enabling is AI agents to be able to autonomously make payments, receive payments, hold balances,” said…
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Midjourney opens website to all users, offering 25 free AI image generations

After being confined to Discord for much of its first few years and then, in the last year, an “alpha” website for users who had generated a certain number of images, Midjourney, the hit AI image generation service and company, is now opening its website to any users — with limited free trials even for those not already signed up. The Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone.
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73% of organizations are embracing gen AI, but far fewer are assessing risks

A new survey from PwC of 1,001 U.S.-based executives in business and technology roles finds that 73% of the respondents currently or plan to use generative AI in their organizations. However, only 58% of respondents have started assessing AI risks. For PwC, responsible AI relates to value, safety and trust and should be part of a company’s risk management processes. Jenn Kosar, U.S. AI assurance…
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