Generative AI is no laughing matter, as Sarah Silverman proved when she filed suit against OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, and Meta for copyright infringement. She and novelists Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey allege that the companies trained their large language models (LLM) on the authors’ published works without consent, wading into new legal territory.
One week earlier, a class action…
ChatGPT Plus gets custom instructions, allowing it to remember how you want it to behave
July 21, 2023
OpenAI today unveiled a potentially impactful feature for users for its ChatGPT Plus subscription service ($20/month): custom instructions, a new setting that users can toggle on when logged into their ChatGPT Plus account. The setting allows the AI chatbot to store…
Cleanlab emerges with $5 million to automate data curation for LLMs and the modern AI stack
July 20, 2023
Cleanlab, a startup that provides a data curation solution for large language models (LLMs) used in enterprise AI, announced today that it has secured $5 million in seed funding. The investment round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, marking a significant vote of confidence…
Cerebras Systems, the AI accelerator pioneer, and UAE-based technology holding group G42, have unveiled the world’s largest supercomputer for AI training, named Condor Galaxy.
The network of nine interconnected supercomputers promises to reduce AI model training time significantly, with a total capacity of 36 exaFLOPs, thanks to the first AI supercomputer on the network, Condor Galaxy 1 (CG-1)…
PlusMusic.ai uses AI to create in-game soundtracks
July 20, 2023
PlusMusic.ai, a first-of-its-kind adaptive audio AI platform, is using AI to streamline the process of creating and integrating music into games.
The company is aiming to revolutionize the future of in-game soundtrack creation and music as downloadable content (DLC) revenue…
This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: The future of the data center: Handling greater and greater demands.
Today, any conversation about artificial intelligence is bound to include the rise of ChatGPT, the ubiquitous chatbot built on…
This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: The future of the data center: Handling greater and greater demands.
In recent years many data centers have transitioned from a centralized model to an edge computing approach. This brings computing closer to the point of use, reducing latency and improving performance.
The impetus for this change has been a surge in…
A recent study conducted by open-source AI solutions firm ClearML in partnership with the AI Infrastructure Alliance (AIIA) has shed light on the adoption of generative AI among Fortune 1000 (F-1000) enterprises.
The study, “Enterprise Generative AI Adoption: C-Level…
AI21 Labs, the Tel Aviv-based NLP major behind the Wordtune editor, has announced the launch of a plug-and-play generative AI engine to help enterprises drive value from their data assets.
Dubbed Contextual Answers, the offering comes as a dedicated API that can be directly…
Researchers at Stanford University and University of California-Berkeley have published an unreviewed paper on the open access journal arXiv.org, which found that the “performance and behavior” of OpenAI’s ChatGPT large language models (LLMs) have changed between March and June 2023. The researchers concluded that their tests revealed “performance on some tasks have gotten substantially…
