Intel threw a lot of information at us a couple of weeks ago at its Intel Innovation 2023 event in San Jose, California. The company talked a lot about its manufacturing advances, its Meteor Lake chip, and its future schedule for processors. It felt like a heavy download of semiconductor chip information. And it piqued my interest in a variety of ways.
After the talks were done, I had a chance…
As Meta brings AI to apps, Google Bard’s fail offers cautionary tale
September 30, 2023
It was nearly impossible not to get caught up in the bubbly, colorful, Disneyland-like vibe of Meta’s Connect developer and creator conference yesterday, held for the first time in person since before the pandemic at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
Hearing…
Meta quietly unveils Llama 2 Long AI that beats GPT-3.5 Turbo and Claude 2 on some tasks
September 30, 2023
Meta Platforms showed off a bevy of new AI features for its consumer-facing services Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp at its annual Meta Connect conference in Menlo Park, California, this week.
But the biggest news from Mark Zuckerberg’s company may have actually come in…
Exclusive: Microsoft opens AI Co-Innovation Lab in San Francisco to empower Bay Area startups
September 29, 2023
Microsoft announced today in an exclusive VentureBeat report the opening of its fifth AI Co-Innovation Lab, located in downtown San Francisco at 555 California Street. The lab provides startups and enterprises with access to AI experts, tools and infrastructure to collaborate on developing and testing AI prototypes and solutions.
“Artificial intelligence is one of the defining technologies of…
Aug X Labs raises $3.1M to use AI to democratize video production
September 29, 2023
Aug X Labs has raised $3.1 million to democratize video creation through AI technologies.
The funds for the oversubscribed funding round will be utilized to expand the team, further develop core technologies, and enhance customer acquisition efforts for its flagship product…
Luda raises $7M in funding for AI training simulation
September 29, 2023
Luda, which specializes in allowing users to train and launch their own AI agents, announced this week that it’s launching a new system called Real-Time Reinforcement Learning (RT-RL). This allows users to make AI creations that can interact or behave in accordance with…
Toronto, Canada-based Cohere, founded by ex-Googlers, has emerged as one of the leading startups amid the increasingly crowded generative AI marketplace with its focus on developing foundation models and other AI-powered technologies for enterprises.
Today, the company jumped into the fray of the AI chatbot race by releasing a new application programming interface (API), allowing third-party…
Sam Altman-backed Slope raises $30M for AI-powered B2B payments platform
September 29, 2023
Tracking and ensuring the integrity of payments is no easy task for any business, but in the B2B space, there is the added difficulty of ensuring the companies you are selling to will actually make their payments on time, won’t stiff you on some baseless excuse, go out of…
OpenAI gives ChatGPT access to the entire internet
September 28, 2023
OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been an undoubtedly powerful and interesting tool since its release in November 2022, but it has been limited with the domain of its knowledge — which only included information up to September 2021. But that changes today.
OpenAI just announced on X…
Cloudflare ignites AI platform efforts with serverless inference, vectorize database and AI gateway
September 28, 2023
How can you rapidly deploy an AI model around the word for fast inference? That’s a challenge Cloudflare is looking to solve with a series of AI platform updates announced today.
Cloudflare is a globally distributed platform founded in 2009 that has been steadily building out capabilities to enable organizations to safely deploy and secure applications at scale. With the increasing demand from…
