In a blockbuster announcement today designed to coincide with the Microsoft Inspire conference, Meta announced its new AI model, LLaMA 2 (Large Language Model Meta AI). Not only is this new large language model (LLM) now available, it’s also open-source and freely available for commercial use — unlike the first LLaMA, which was licensed only for research purposes.
The news, coupled with…
German enterprise software giant SAP is putting skin into the AI game.
The company today announced it has directly invested in three AI startups: Cohere, Anthropic (maker of the Claude 2 LLM service) and Aleph Alpha.
While the company did not specify a dollar amount of its…
During Splunk’s .conf23 event, the company announced Splunk AI, a suite of AI-driven solutions designed to enhance its unified security and observability platform. According to the company, the latest development combines automation with human-in-the-loop experiences to…
OpenAI isn’t done making waves in the media industry — far from it.
The Sam Altman-led private company behind ChatGPT, last valued at close to $30 billion, today announced it has struck a partnership with the American Journalism Project (AJP), a non-profit philanthropic organization that has funded more than 40 media organizations across the U.S., in which OpenAI will gain access to more news…
Anyword, a marketing copywriting software startup now headquartered in New York City, was founded 10 years ago in Israel under a different name: Keywee.
The companyh was early with some of the technology trends and buzzwords now gripping Silicon Valley, like natural…
Hollywood actors and writers are currently striking, and one of their biggest concerns is the impact of generative AI on their industry and their jobs. In a news conference last Thursday, Fran Drescher, president of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television…
Futureverse, an AI and metaverse technology and content company, has raised $54 million in a new round of funding in an effort to marry AI and the metaverse.
10T Holdings led the round and included participation from Ripple. Futureverse‘s technology platform includes a suite of proprietary AI content generation tools designed to enhance the music, objects, characters, and animations that will…
How iGenius’s GPT for numbers is evolving language models to give enterprise data a voice
July 18, 2023
Uljan Sharka, founder and CEO of iGenius, has spent the last seven years working on language models and generative AI. To this point, it’s been all about the technology, from the size of the model to how much training data it uses to inference times. And what he’s…
Another day in the year 2023, another big-time AI partnership is announced: This time it is Cohere, the white-hot Canadian generative AI startup focused on building enterprise-grade large language models (LLMs) and tools, and McKinsey, the 97-year-old global consulting firm…
This fall, U.S. Senators will be going back to school — with a crash course in AI that will include at least nine forums with top experts on copyright, workforce issues, national security, high risk AI models, existential risks, privacy, transparency and explainability, and elections and democracy.
At a TechNYC event held at IBM’s New York City headquarters yesterday afternoon, Senate Majority…
