Evercoast, a provider of end-to-end 3D spatial video software, has announced the acquisition of Depthkit, a pioneer in volumetric capture.
This strategic acquisition marks a significant leap forward in the race to capture and generate 3D digital humans and spatial video, a field of immersive video content that allows viewers to see subjects and dynamic scenes from all angles on any digital…
AI red teaming is proving effective in discovering security gaps that other security approaches can’t see, saving AI companies from having their models used to produce objectionable content. Anthropic released its AI red team guidelines last week, joining a group of AI…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, which previously made headlines with a ChatGPT competitor trained on 2 trillion English and Chinese tokens, has announced the release of DeepSeek Coder V2, an open-source mixture of experts (MoE) code language model. Built upon DeepSeek-V2, an…
Runway unveils new hyper realistic AI video model Gen-3 Alpha, capable of 10-second-long clips
June 18, 2024
New York City-based Runway ML, also known as Runway, was among the earliest startups to focus on realistic high-quality generative AI video creation models. But following the debut of its Gen-1 model in February 2023 and Gen-2 in June 2023, the company has since seen its star occluded by other highly realistic AI video generators, namely OpenAI’s still-unreleased Sora model and Luma AI’s…
Today, Zeta Labs, a London-based startup founded by former Meta engineers Fryderyk Wiatrowski and Peter Albert, announced the launch of Jace, an LLM-powered AI agent that can execute in-browser actions on command.
The company also announced it has raised $2.9 million in a…
Innovation in machine learning and AI training continues to accelerate, even as more complex generative AI workloads come online.
Today MLCommons released the MLPerf 4.0 training benchmark, once again showing record levels of performance. The MLPerf training benchmark is a…
AI and the future of storytelling | Inworld AI
June 14, 2024
Kylan Gibbs, CEO and cofounder of Inworld AI, gave a talk recently at the TED 2024 conference. In the talk, he delivered is vision for the future of AI and storytelling in games.With the kinds of AI agents that Inworld enables, audiences can now step beyond the script and explore uncharted experiences. They’re set to transform stories from scripted narratives to worlds that the audience can…
Verizon is using generative AI applications to enhance customer support and experience for its more than 100 million phone customers, and is expanding its responsible AI team to mitigate its risks.
Michael Raj, a vice president overseeing AI for Verizon’s network…
The Women in AI Breakfast, presented by Capital One, and the Women in AI Awards are returning to Transform 2024, VentureBeat’s flagship event, for the sixth year in a row. As the generative AI revolution gains momentum, it’s an especially critical year to recognize…
Databricks is raising the bar on enterprise gen AI developer tools. Today, at its annual data and AI conference, the Ali Ghodsi-led company announced several new enhancements for its Mosaic AI platform, aimed at helping enterprises deploy large language model (LLM)-powered applications.
While Databricks has been providing enterprises tooling to build AI applications for quite some time, the Mosaic…
