As I’ve been organizing VB Transform, our event next week focused on enterprise generative AI, I’ve noticed a stark shift in the scores of conversations I’m having with tech leaders. A year ago, it was all about how to embrace the magic of OpenAI’s GPT-4 throughout the company. Now their focus is on practical implementation and ROI. It’s as if the entire industry has hit reality mode. As…
Operating systems are variously defined in as many shades nuance as there are stars in the sky, because we’re all nerds here — and this is important, stick with me. It can be defined as software that identifies and configures physical and logical devices, or defined as…
The impact of generative AI on the finance industry is a topic of intense debate among experts. Major financial institutions are rapidly integrating generative AI into their operations. Goldman Sachs has deployed its first generative AI tool across the firm, focusing on…
A week ago, ElevenLabs, the AI voice startup founded by former Google and Palantir engineers, made headlines with its first major consumer-centric product – a Reader app.
Currently available on iOS, the product is a dedicated voiceover solution that converts any text file or link from the web into AI audio, narrated in different AI voices and accents. Today, the company announced it is expanding…
Apple, in collaboration with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), has released a public demo of their 4M AI model on the Hugging Face Spaces platform. This launch comes seven months after the model was initially open-sourced, and represents an important…
LMSYS launches ‘Multimodal Arena’: GPT-4 tops leaderboard, but AI still can’t out-see humans
July 1, 2024
LMSYS organization launched its “Multimodal Arena” today, a new leaderboard comparing AI models’ performance on vision-related tasks. The arena collected over 17,000 user preference votes across more than 60 languages in just two weeks, offering a glimpse into the…
The era of generative AI is here, ushered in by neural networks capable of generating new data, creating content and making informed decisions based on extensive training datasets. But exactly what generative AI looks like is increasingly an open question: While ChatGPT ushered in a wave of similar chatbot-style, text-based interfaces, others including Hume AI and even OpenAI competitor Anthropic…
Nvidia leads the age of AI hardware. The company’s high-performance GPUs are being used by some of the biggest technology companies in the world to power the training and inference for some very large models. But, as the Jensen Huang-led giant continues to thrive, a batch…
Democratizing AI: SmythOS is the hero everyone needs
June 28, 2024
Being a student is tough enough. Unfortunately, with gloom and doom scenarios about AI replacing job opportunities, life for students has become even tougher. It’s no wonder that many students are stressed about how or even if they will ever be able to support themselves.
Google to shore up Vertex AI’s enterprise credentials with addition of Mistral Small, Large and Codestral models
June 28, 2024
Google is adding more third-party models to its AI platform to give enterprise customers more freedom when building apps. Days after integrating Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet to Vertex AI, Google revealed that it will be adding support for Mistral Small, Mistral Large, and Mistral Codestral this July. Developers will be able to access them through the Vertex AI Model Garden. To enhance its…
