With the rise of ChatGPT and other tools, enterprises have become bullish on the potential of generative AI. They have started looping in LLMs into their workflows and products, growing not only the business of vendors providing these novel systems but also the demand for talent capable of leveraging them to the fullest.
However, according to a new Workmonitor Pulse survey from staffing company…
Intuit, a financial software company that offers products such as TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, announced on Tuesday that it has launched Intuit Assist, a new artificial intelligence assistant that can generate personalized answers and insights for its customers.
The…
You can now make an AI clone of yourself — or anyone else, living or dead — with Delphi
September 7, 2023
My favorite episode of the hit sci-fi/horror TV series Black Mirror is “Be Right Back,” which premiered 10 years ago now, and captured the alienating experience of a woman cloning her dead ex-boyfriend by using a service that analyzed his social media posts and texts to…
Zoom launches AI Companion to summarize meetings for late attendees
September 7, 2023
Zoom, the videoconferencing and messaging platform, is getting into the built-in generative AI assistant game, according to a blog post on Tuesday. It said it will rebrand its Zoom IQ as the Zoom AI Companion and users already subscribed to the paid services will have access to the new features right away.
Mapping to the challenges found in a normal workday, Zoom says its “AI Companion” can…
Salesforce announces Slack AI with unread message summaries and more
September 7, 2023
A month after launching a new experience for Sales reps and a redesign that drew both love and hate from its global user base, the messaging app Slack is moving forward with its mission of making collaborative work easier for enterprises.
Today, the Salesforce-owned…
Senate meeting with top AI leaders will be ‘closed-door,’ no press or public allowed
September 6, 2023
At an event held last month at IBM’s New York City headquarters yesterday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said he would convene a series of AI “Insight Forums” to “lay down the foundation for AI policy.” The first-ever forums, to be held in…
AI21 Labs co-founder says ‘we usually win’ when competing with OpenAI for enterprise business
September 6, 2023
Before there was OpenAI’s ChatGPT, there was AI21 Labs’ Wordtune.
One of the first companies to bring generative AI tools into widespread commercial use, the Tel Aviv-based AI21 Labs came out of stealth in 2020, founded by AI and tech luminaries Amnon Shasuha (founder and CEO of Mobileye), Yoav Shoham (professor emeritus at Stanford University), and Ori Goshen (founder of CrowdX). AI21 Labs…
Kindo raises $7M for AI productivity platform for businesses
September 6, 2023
Kindo has successfully raised $7 million in seed funding for the launch of its secure AI productivity platform for businesses.
Kindo’s platform empowers businesses by harnessing the power of any AI model, be it commercial, open source, or proprietary. By integrating AI…
AI and design: Exploring the synergy of creativity and technology
September 6, 2023
This article is part of a VB Lab Insights series paid for by Capital One.
Generative AI is dominating the conversation in 2023, and the design community is no exception to its transformative potential. Product innovations fueled by emerging AI capabilities have the potential…
Gleen AI arrives with $4.9M in funding to stop AI hallucinations using enterprises’ own data
September 6, 2023
As organizations around the world look to rapidly evaluate, test, and deploy generative AI into their workflows — either on the backend, front-end (customer-facing) or both — many decision-makers remain rightfully concerned about some of the lingering issues, among them, the problem of AI hallucinations.
But a new startup, Gleen AI, has burst on the scene and claims to “solve…
