Tim Guleri, a venture capitalist at Silicon Valley firm Sierra Ventures, has witnessed numerous technology revolutions throughout his career, but recently told VentureBeat he believes the current emergence of generative AI is the most significant and intimidating of them all.
With three decades of experience in founding and investing in enterprise technology, Guleri built companies during the…
WordPress has announced a proprietary AI-powered writing assistant to help users create and edit blog posts. The new tool, called Jetpack AI Assistant, is now readily available on WordPress.com and seamlessly integrates into the editor interface.
Users with WordPress blogs…
The last two days have been busy ones at Redmond: yesterday, Microsoft announced its new Azure OpenAI Service for government. Today, the tech giant unveiled a new set of three commitments to its customers as they seek to integrate generative AI into their organizations…
San Francisco startup Weights & Biases is expanding its platform today with the release of a pair of new capabilities designed to help make it easier for organizations to build and monitor machine learning (ML) models.
Weights & Biases’ platform includes tools that help enable an AI/ML development lifecycle. At the end of April, the company added new tools to enable LLMOps, that is…
Contextual AI emerges from stealth with $20M to pursue ‘artificial specialized intelligence’
June 8, 2023
Contextual AI, a new enterprise-focused AI startup founded in Palo Alto by veterans of Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and Hugging Face, today emerged from stealth and announced it has raised $20 million in a seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), with participation from…
Generative AI has been making headlines frequently in recent months, but how much are people really using the technology in their work?
A fair bit, as it turns out: 46% of all employees have “experimented” with generative AI at least once, according to a new survey of…
Apple announced a host of new software features for its popular devices — computers, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, AirPods and the new Apple Vision Pro headset — at its worldwide developer conference WWDC 2023 on Monday. As expected from pre-event reports and rumors, many of the new features from the technology giant used artificial intelligence (AI), or “machine learning,” (ML) as…
A new survey conducted by Salesforce and YouGov has found that marketers see generative AI as a “game-changer” that can save them about five hours of work every week — that’s more than a month every year, assuming eight-hour work days.
As part of their Generative AI…
Emad Mostaque is the founder and CEO of Stability AI, a unicorn startup that exploded into the zeitgeist in October of 2022 with a billion-dollar valuation. It celebrated with what the New York Times called a “coming-out party” at the San Francisco Exploratorium that…
Snowflake got its start by bringing data warehouse technology to the cloud, but now in 2023, like every other vendor, it finds artificial intelligence (AI) permeating nearly every discussion.
In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Sunny Bedi, CIO and CDO at Snowflake, detailed the latest findings from his company’s 2023 Data Trends Report, which is being released today. The report reveals…
