As tech giants declare their AI releases open — and even put the word in their names — the once insider term “open source” has burst into the modern zeitgeist. During this precarious time in which one company’s misstep could set back the public’s comfort with AI by a decade or more, the concepts of openness and transparency are being wielded haphazardly, and sometimes dishonestly, to…
Whether by automating tasks, serving as copilots or generating text, images, video and software from plain English, AI is rapidly altering how we work. Yet, for all the talk about AI job, widespread workforce displacement has yet to happen.
It seems likely that this could be…
Anthropic just gave Claude a superpower: real-time web search. Here’s why it changes everything
March 21, 2025
Anthropic announced today that its AI assistant Claude can now search and process information from the internet in real-time, addressing one of users’ most requested features and closing a critical competitive gap with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
The new web search capability…
OpenAI’s new voice AI model gpt-4o-transcribe lets you add speech to your existing text apps in seconds
March 21, 2025
OpenAI‘s voice AI models have gotten it into trouble before with actor Scarlett Johansson, but that isn’t stopping the company from continuing to advance its offerings in this category.
Today, the ChatGPT maker has unveiled three new proprietary voice models: gpt-4o-transcribe, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe and gpt-4o-mini-tts. These models will initially be available through the ChatGPT maker’s…
When legal research company LexisNexis created its AI assistant Protégé, it wanted to figure out the best way to leverage its expertise without deploying a large model.
Protégé aims to help lawyers, associates and paralegals write and proof legal documents and ensure…
Unity announces enhanced engine performance and stability with new platforms and AI workflows
March 20, 2025
Unity 6 game engine maker Unity said that developers can expect enhanced performance and stability, expanded platform support, and new AI-powered workflows in the three Unity 6 updates planned for 2025.
The first update Unity 6.1, lands in April.
“We don’t want…
Adobe Sneaks: Transforming Presentations with AI
March 20, 2025
Today at Adobe’s annual digital innovation conference Summit 2024 in Las Vegas, the company is unveiling Project Slide Wow, a generative AI-driven tool designed to streamline the creation of PowerPoint presentations directly from raw customer data.
Presented as part of the “Adobe Sneaks” program, the innovation aims to solve a common challenge for marketers and analysts—transforming…
Hugging Face submits open-source blueprint, challenging Big Tech in White House AI policy fight
March 20, 2025
In a Washington policy landscape increasingly dominated by calls for minimal AI regulation, Hugging Face is making a distinctly different case to the Trump administration: open-source and collaborative AI development may be America’s strongest competitive advantage.
The AI…
Nvidia is getting into the open source reasoning model market.
At the Nvidia GTC event today, the AI giant made a series of hardware and software announcements. Buried amidst the big silicon announcements, the company announced a new set of open source Llama Nemotron…
Nvidia gets industrial software firms to integrate Omniverse to accelerate physical AI
March 19, 2025
Nvidia said the big industrial software and service providers are integrating Omniverse into their platforms to accelerate industrial digitalization with physical AI.
Those integrating Nvidia Omniverse include Ansys, Databricks, Dematic, Omron, SAP, Schneider Electric with ETAP, Siemens and more. Nvidia made the announcement during Jensen Huang’s keynote speech during the Nvidia GTC 2025 event…
