Enterprises have quickly recognized the power of generative AI to uncover new ideas and increase both developer and non-developer productivity. But pushing sensitive and proprietary data into publicly hosted large language models (LLMs) creates significant risks in security, privacy and governance. Businesses need to address these risks before they can start to see any benefit from these powerful…
Watch out, Midjourney! Ideogram launches AI image generator with impressive typography
August 25, 2023
Earlier this week, a new generative AI image startup called Ideogram, founded by former Google Brain researchers, launched with $16.5 million in seed funding led by a16z and Index Ventures.
Another image generator? Don’t we have enough to choose from between Midjourney…
Irreverent Labs, backed by Samsung Next, set to revolutionize video content creation with AI
August 25, 2023
A relatively small artificial intelligence (AI) startup based in Bellevue, Washington has secured a strategic investment from Samsung Next that signals big ambitions to transform how video content is produced worldwide.
Irreverent Labs, founded in late 2021 by veteran tech…
A day after OpenAI announced that it will offer new built-in support for users to fine-tune its GPT-3.5 Turbo large language model (LLM), which allows enterprises to bring their proprietary data for training the model and run it at scale, the company named Scale AI as its “preferred partner” to provide GPT-3.5 fine tuning.
“We are excited to partner with OpenAI to supercharge model…
Modular looks to boost AI mojo with $100M funding raise
August 25, 2023
Make no mistake about it, there is a lot of excitement and money in early stage AI.
A year and a half after being founded, and only four months after the first previews of its technology, AI startup Modular announced today that it has raised $100 million, bringing total…
Another big gun is entering the AI race.
Korean internet giant Naver today announced the launch of HyperCLOVA X, its next-generation large language model (LLM) that delivers conversational AI experiences through a question-answering chatbot called CLOVA X.
The company said…
Princeton University’s ‘AI Snake Oil’ authors say generative AI hype has ‘spiraled out of control’
August 24, 2023
Back in 2019, Princeton University’s Arvind Narayanan, a professor of computer science and expert on algorithmic fairness, AI and privacy, shared a set of slides on Twitter called “AI Snake Oil.” The presentation, which claimed that “much of what’s being sold as ‘AI’ today is snake oil. It does not and cannot work,” quickly went viral.
Narayanan, who was recently named director…
OpenAI now allows enterprises to fine-tune GPT-3.5 Turbo
August 24, 2023
As more and more enterprises look to power their internal workflows with generative AI, OpenAI is working to make implementation better for them. Case in point: the latest move from the Sam Altman-led company is to offer new built-in support for users to fine-tune its…
At its annual Signal conference today, Twilio is announcing a significant expansion of its customer artificial intelligence (AI) tools, dubbed CustomerAI.
Twilio has been steadily building out its partnerships and technologies for AI over the course of 2023 in the lead-up to…
Midjourney, one of the startups at the bleeding edge of generative AI imagery, debuted a generative infill feature that users have already dubbed a potential game-changer, putting it in more direct competition with Adobe Photoshop’s Generative Fill.
An increasingly popular use of AI-powered image generation tools is to add entirely new elements within preexisting images, elements that fit the…
