Edge computer chip and software startup SiMa.ai, fresh off a $70 million funding round from industry heavyweights including Dell Technologies Capital, is expanding its foothold in the edge AI market with the release of a new, smaller, lower power chip: MLSoC Modalix.
At 6 nanometers, it comes in way smaller than the San Jose, California-based startup’s prior MLSoC chip of 16 nanometers.
Building…
AI2’s new model aims to be open and powerful yet cost effective
September 10, 2024
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) released a new open-source model that hopes to answer the need for a large language model (LLM) that is both a strong performer and cost-effective. The new model, which it calls OLMoE, leverages a sparse mixture of experts (MoE)…
How AI is making copyright issues more complicated | Devcom panel
September 10, 2024
AI and games has become the hottest topic at game conferences like Devcom, the game developer conference that precedes the giant Gamescom expo every year in Cologne.
At the event, I moderated a panel that explored the notion of the limits of intellectual…
AI Tools: Crafting harmony or creating dependency?
September 10, 2024
As AI tools become increasingly integrated into our daily lives, we face a critical question: Are we harnessing their power to enhance our abilities, or are we slowly outsourcing our minds — or both?
As an early adopter of generative AI tools like DALL-E, ChatGPT, Claude and others, I have experienced firsthand how these technologies can boost productivity and creativity. I have used AI to build…
Meet the new, most powerful open source AI model in the world: HyperWrite’s Reflection 70B
September 9, 2024
There’s a new king in town: Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of AI writing startup HyperWrite, today unveiled Reflection 70B, a new large language model (LLM) based on Meta’s open source Llama 3.1-70B Instruct that leverages a new error self-correction technique and…
These five personas show how workers approach AI says Slack survey
September 9, 2024
A new survey from Slack and Salesforce showed that organizations struggling to improve AI adoption could benefit from personalizing their approach to employees.
The latest Slack Workforce Index survey reached out to 5,000 full-time desk workers on their AI usage. It found…
The AI frenzy is taking over the world. Mere days after China’s Alibaba made headlines with Qwen2-VL, Sakana AI, the Japanese startup founded by former Google researchers David Ha and Llion Jones and former diplomat Ren Ito, has announced it has raised $100 million in a series A round of funding.
The investment has been led by several industry heavyweights, including New Enterprise Associates…
71% of leaders prefer hiring candidates with AI skills over those with the relevant industry experience
September 5, 2024
If you’re not upskilling or upskilled in AI, the 2024 Annual Work Trend Index from Microsoft and LinkedIn makes for grim reading.
After surveying 31,000 people in 31 countries, its researchers have discovered a change in employer preferences from seeking AI aptitude over…
Luma AI debuts Dream Machine 1.6 video generator with camera motions
September 5, 2024
AI video generators are multiplying in number and increasing in realism, but one big roadblock preventing them from replacing traditionally filmed video is a lack of fine-grained control.
Many leading AI generators allow users to enter text prompts and/or upload still images…
Anthropic to release system prompts for Artifacts, latest Claude family prompts found incomplete
September 5, 2024
Last week, Anthropic released the system prompts — or the instructions for a model to follow — for its Claude family of models, but it was incomplete. Now, the company promises to release the system prompts for its newest feature, Artifacts, in the coming weeks after researchers pointed out its exclusion.
A spokesperson for Anthropic confirmed to VentureBeat that it will “add more details…
