Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed an AI model that could change how we interact with digital assistants. The new system, dubbed LLaMA-Omni, enables real-time speech interaction with large language models (LLMs), promising to transform industries from customer service to healthcare.
LLaMA-Omni, built on Meta’s open-source Llama 3.1 8B Instruct model, can process spoken…
Datricks gets $15M from SAP and others for AI-powered risk and compliance platform
September 12, 2024
Datricks, an AI-powered financial integrity and compliance software startup headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by venture capital firm Team8.
The investment also saw participation from SAP, a global enterprise software…
Adobe previews Firefly Video AI model offering high-quality generations
September 12, 2024
Adobe has announced a new addition to its suite of creative tools: the Adobe Firefly Video Model, its own foray into the increasingly competitive AI video generation space, built atop its existing and ever-expanding family of Firefly generative AI still image models, which…
AI Safety Showdown: LeCun Criticizes SB 1047, Hinton Supports Regs
September 12, 2024
Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta, publicly rebuked supporters of California’s contentious AI safety bill, SB 1047, on Wednesday. His criticism came just one day after Geoffrey Hinton, often referred to as the “godfather of AI,” endorsed the legislation. This stark disagreement between two pioneers in artificial intelligence highlights the deep divisions within the AI community over the…
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup backed by tech giants like Amazon and Google, is upping the ante in the fiercely competitive enterprise AI market. The company has unveiled Workspaces, a new feature in its API Console that promises to give businesses…
Agentic AI: A deep dive into the future of automation
September 11, 2024
Beyond generative AI
The most transformative promise of AI has always been its potential for autonomy, to create systems that can act intelligently on their own without human supervision. However, this kind of “Agentic AI” has remained out of reach for most enterprise…
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…
