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At VentureBeat’s Transform 2025, Matthew Kropp outlined a game plan for companies to derive value from agentic AI by focusing on workflow evolution and employee adoption. Companies should deploy, reshape, and invent with AI, amplifying employees’ productivity rather than replacing them. Overcoming the hurdle of adoption involves addressing capability ignorance, habit inertia…
Elon Musk introduced Grok 4 last night, calling it the ‘smartest AI in the world’ — what businesses need to know
July 11, 2025
After days of controversy surrounding a flurry of antisemitic responses made recently by his Grok AI-powered chatbot on his social network X (formerly Twitter), a seemingly unrepentant and unbothered Elon Musk launched the latest version of his AI model family, Grok 4…
AWS seeks to extend its market position with updates to SageMaker, its machine learning and AI model training and inference platform, adding new observability capabilities, connected coding environments and GPU cluster performance management.
However, AWS continues to face…
VentureBeat announced the winners of the seventh annual Women in AI Awards at VB Transform in San Francisco on June 25.
The awards recognize and honor the women leaders and changemakers in the field of AI. The nominees were submitted by the public and chosen by a VentureBeat committee based on their commitment to the industry, their work to increase inclusivity in the field and their positive…
As generative AI matures, enterprises are shifting from experimentation to implementation—moving beyond chatbots and copilots into the realm of intelligent, autonomous agents. In a conversation with VentureBeat’s Matt Marshall, Ashok Srivastava, SVP and Chief Data…
Open vs. closed models: AI leaders from GM, Zoom and IBM weigh trade-offs for enterprise use
July 10, 2025
Deciding on AI models is as much of a technical decision and it is a strategic one. But choosing open, closed or hybrid models all have trade-offs.
While speaking at this year’s VB Transform, model architecture experts from General Motors, Zoom and IBM discussed how their…
As AI applications increasingly permeate enterprise operations, from enhancing patient care through advanced medical imaging to powering complex fraud detection models and even aiding wildlife conservation, a critical bottleneck often emerges: data storage.
During VentureBeat’s Transform 2025, Greg Matson, head of products and marketing, Solidigm and Roger Cummings, CEO of PEAK:AIO spoke with…
As more companies choose to bring generative AI tools into their workflows, the number of AI applications they need to connect to their stack increases. An emerging trend brings more visibility into all these applications in one place, allowing enterprises to query, search…
Chinese researchers unveil MemOS, the first ‘memory operating system’ that gives AI human-like recall
July 9, 2025
A team of researchers from leading institutions including Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Zhejiang University has developed what they’re calling the first “memory operating system” for artificial intelligence, addressing a fundamental limitation that has hindered AI…
How do you balance risk management and safety with innovation in agentic systems — and how do you grapple with core considerations around data and model selection? In this VB Transform session, Milind Naphade, SVP, technology, of AI Foundations at Capital One, offered best practices and lessons learned from real-world experiments and applications for deploying and scaling an agentic…
