What happens after a customer clicks the “buy” button on an ecommerce website?
It’s a domain known as post-purchase, and it’s often one of the costliest and most impactful aspects of operations for retailers. Post-purchase activities include figuring out delivery, customer retention and, if needed, returns. Among the pioneers in the space is Narvar which counts more than 1,500 global…
Microsoft’s new rStar-Math technique upgrades small models to outperform OpenAI’s o1-preview at math problems
January 10, 2025
Microsoft is doubling down on the potential of small language models (SLMs) with the unveiling of rStar-Math, a new reasoning technique that can be applied to small models to boost their performance on math problems using reasoning techniques — performance similar to, and…
Onscreen has been providing caregivers and seniors with an AI-based companion called Joy to help family members take care of older adults. Now it’s bringing its Joy AI companion app to Android tablets and iPads.
The company knows caregivers are outnumbered by those who…
Lenovo unveiled its lineup of AI-powered business, consumer and gaming PCs at CES 2025 with a focus on smart AI for all. Lenovo said it is delivering smarter technology and the power of AI to deliver personalized, productive, and protected solutions.
At the heart of Lenovo’s innovation is its Smarter AI for All vision, which integrates AI capabilities into its Copilot+ Microsoft Windows PCs.
How Meta’s latest research proves you can use generative AI to understand user intent
January 8, 2025
Meta — parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads and more — runs one of the biggest recommendation systems in the world. In two recently released papers, its researchers have revealed how generative models can be used to better understand and respond to…
Halliday unveils AI smart glasses with lens-free AR viewing
January 6, 2025
Halliday has come up with eyewear we didn’t know we needed: smart glasses that project images directly onto your eye. Unveiled at CES 2025‘s CES Unveiled event, Halliday showed its AI smart glasses that beams images directly to your field of vision — beaming them to…
Samsung spreads Vision AI across its 2025 TV portfolio
January 6, 2025
For this year’s lineup, Samsung said that AI will come to life in more ways than just great picture quality. The company is introducing AI-backed experiences to make your day simpler, more dynamic, and just plain better. Announced at CES 2025, these experiences will help usher in a new era for Samsung TVs known as Vision AI. Vision AI will deliver better picture quality, optimized sound, and new…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, known for challenging leading AI vendors with its innovative open-source technologies, today released a new ultra-large model: DeepSeek-V3.
Available via Hugging Face under the company’s license agreement, the new model comes with 671B…
Nvidia to open-source Run:ai, the software it acquired for $700M to help companies manage GPUs for AI
January 3, 2025
Nvidia has completed its acquisition of Run:ai, a software company that makes it easier for customers to orchestrate GPU clouds for AI, and said that it would open-source the software.
The purchase price wasn’t disclosed, but was pegged by reports at $700 million when…
Why 2025 will be the year of AI orchestration
January 3, 2025
In the tech world, we like to label periods as the year of (insert milestone here). This past year (2024) was a year of broader experimentation in AI orchestration and, of course, agentic use cases.
As 2025 opens, VentureBeat spoke to industry analysts and IT decision-makers to see what the year might bring. For many, 2025 will be the year of agents, when all the pilot programs, experiments and…
