When legal research company LexisNexis created its AI assistant Protégé, it wanted to figure out the best way to leverage its expertise without deploying a large model.
Protégé aims to help lawyers, associates and paralegals write and proof legal documents and ensure that anything they cite in complaints and briefs is accurate. However, LexisNexis didn’t want a general legal AI assistant…
Unity announces enhanced engine performance and stability with new platforms and AI workflows
March 20, 2025
Unity 6 game engine maker Unity said that developers can expect enhanced performance and stability, expanded platform support, and new AI-powered workflows in the three Unity 6 updates planned for 2025.
The first update Unity 6.1, lands in April.
“We don’t want…
Adobe Sneaks: Transforming Presentations with AI
March 20, 2025
Today at Adobe’s annual digital innovation conference Summit 2024 in Las Vegas, the company is unveiling Project Slide Wow, a generative AI-driven tool designed to streamline the creation of PowerPoint presentations directly from raw customer data.
Presented as part of the…
Hugging Face submits open-source blueprint, challenging Big Tech in White House AI policy fight
March 20, 2025
In a Washington policy landscape increasingly dominated by calls for minimal AI regulation, Hugging Face is making a distinctly different case to the Trump administration: open-source and collaborative AI development may be America’s strongest competitive advantage.
The AI platform company, which hosts more than 1.5 million public models across diverse domains, has submitted its recommendations…
Nvidia is getting into the open source reasoning model market.
At the Nvidia GTC event today, the AI giant made a series of hardware and software announcements. Buried amidst the big silicon announcements, the company announced a new set of open source Llama Nemotron…
Nvidia gets industrial software firms to integrate Omniverse to accelerate physical AI
March 19, 2025
Nvidia said the big industrial software and service providers are integrating Omniverse into their platforms to accelerate industrial digitalization with physical AI.
Those integrating Nvidia Omniverse include Ansys, Databricks, Dematic, Omron, SAP, Schneider Electric with…
Nvidia’s GTC 2025 keynote: 40x AI performance leap, open-source ‘Dynamo’, and a walking Star Wars-inspired ‘Blue’ robot
March 19, 2025
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage at the SAP Center on Tuesday morning, leather jacket intact and without a teleprompter, to deliver what has become one of the most anticipated keynotes in the technology industry. The GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2025, self-described by Huang as the “Super Bowl of AI,” arrives at a critical juncture for Nvidia and the broader…
The current AI ecosystem wasn’t built with game developers in mind. While impressive in controlled demos, today’s AI technologies expose critical limitations when transitioning to production-ready games, said Kylan Gibbs, CEO of Inworld AI, in an interview with…
Mistral AI drops new open-source model that outperforms GPT-4o Mini with fraction of parameters
March 18, 2025
French artificial-intelligence startup Mistral AI unveiled a new open-source model today that the company says outperforms similar offerings from Google and OpenAI, setting the stage for increased competition in a market dominated by U.S. tech giants.
The model, called…
Baidu delivers new LLMs ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 undercutting DeepSeek, OpenAI on cost — but they’re not open source (yet)
March 18, 2025
Over the weekend, Chinese web search giant Baidu announced the launch of two new AI models, ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1, a multimodal language model and reasoning model, respectively.
Baidu claims they offer state-of-the-art performance on a variety of metrics, besting DeepSeek’s non-reasoning V3 and OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 (how do you like the close name match Baidu chose as well?) on several third-party…