Not content to play second fiddle to its investment, partner, and apparent competitor OpenAI which is holding its second “DevDay” today, Microsoft announced its own series of major AI updates to its Copilot chatbot, Windows 11 operating system, and Bing search engine.
With few exceptions, the updates all leverage AI in an effort to create a more personalized and powerful experience for users…
Nvidia just dropped a bombshell: Its new AI model is open, massive, and ready to rival GPT-4
October 3, 2024
Nvidia has released a powerful open-source artificial intelligence model that competes with proprietary systems from industry leaders like OpenAI and Google. The company’s new NVLM 1.0 family of large multimodal language models, led by the 72 billion parameter NVLM-D-72B…
Vera AI Inc., a startup focused on responsible artificial intelligence deployment, announced today the general availability of its AI Gateway platform. The system aims to help organizations more quickly and safely implement AI technologies by providing customizable…
OpenAI isn’t going anywhere: raises $6.6B at $157B valuation
October 3, 2024
Despite a wave of executive departures in recent months, OpenAI has today announced an expected new funding round.
It was always expected to be a whopper, but the amount it raised — $6.6 billion at a $157 billion total company valuation — now makes it the largest venture capital round in history to date, according to Axios.
The round was led by Thrive Capital, according to Bloomberg, while…
AI is rapidly evolving, poised to transform the workplace in ways that were thought of as science fiction only a few years ago. For example, Google recently updated its Google’s NotebookLM, an AI-powered research assistant and note-taking tool, with Audio Overview to…
Ensemble raises $3.3M to bring ‘dark matter’ tech to enterprise AI
September 30, 2024
Machine learning startup Ensemble has raised $3.3 million in seed funding to address the growing importance of data quality in artificial intelligence. Salesforce Ventures led the round, with participation from M13, Motivate, and Amplo.
Founders Alex Reneau and Zach…
From cost center to competitive edge: The strategic value of custom AI Infrastructure
September 27, 2024
AI is no longer just a buzzword — it’s a business imperative. As enterprises across industries continue to adopt AI, the conversation around AI infrastructure has evolved dramatically. Once viewed as a necessary but costly investment, custom AI infrastructure is now seen as a strategic asset that can provide a critical competitive edge.
Mike Gualtieri, vice president and principal analyst at…
Cloud, edge or on-prem? Navigating the new AI infrastructure paradigm
September 27, 2024
No doubt, enterprise data infrastructure continues to transform with technological innovation — most notably today due to data-and-resource hungry generative AI.
As gen AI changes the enterprise itself, leaders continue to grapple with the cloud/edge/on-prem question. On…
Building and securing a governed AI infrastructure for the future
September 27, 2024
Unlocking AI’s potential to deliver greater efficiency, cost savings and deeper customer insights requires a consistent balance between cybersecurity and governance.
AI infrastructure must be designed to adapt and flex to a business’ changing directions. Cybersecurity…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman anticipates superintelligence soon, defends AI in rare personal blog post
September 25, 2024
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman penned a rare note on his website today spelling out more of his vision of the AI-powered future, or as he calls it (and his blog post is titled): “The Intelligence Age.“
Specifically, Sam Altman argues that “deep learning works,” and can generalize across a range of domains and difficult problem sets based on its training data, allowing people to “solve hard…
