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Anthropic Co-Founder: AI’s future lies in on-demand bespoke software

Jared Kaplan, Anthropic‘s Chief Science Officer and co-founder, didn’t mince words at VentureBeat’s Transform 2024 conference. His message? Generative AI technology is set to become as commonplace as smartphones, reshaping how we work, play, and interact with technology enabling on-demand bespoke software. “If we’re right about the rate at which AI systems are going to improve, then AI…
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Writer drops mind-blowing AI update

Writer, a leading enterprise AI platform, has rolled out a suite of powerful enhancements to its artificial intelligence chat applications, announced today at VB Transform. The sweeping improvements, which include advanced graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and new tools for AI transparency, will go live across Writer’s ecosystem starting tomorrow. Both users of Writer’s…
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AI agent benchmarks are misleading, study warns

AI agents are becoming a promising new research direction with potential applications in the real world. These agents use foundation models such as large language models (LLMs) and vision language models (VLMs) to take natural language instructions and pursue complex goals autonomously or semi-autonomously. AI agents can use various tools such as browsers, search engines and code compilers to…
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Salesforce proves less is more: xLAM-1B ‘Tiny Giant’ beats bigger AI Models

Salesforce has unveiled an AI model that punches well above its weight class, potentially reshaping the landscape of on-device artificial intelligence. The company’s new xLAM-1B model, dubbed the “Tiny Giant,” boasts just 1 billion parameters yet outperforms much larger models in function-calling tasks, including those from industry leaders OpenAI and Anthropic. Meet Salesforce Einstein…
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