Sometimes it feels as if the world suddenly jumps forward. Certainly, that’s what it felt like 18 months ago when OpenAI first released ChatGPT. According to a study from UBS, ChatGPT grew to more than 100 million users in the first two months of its release, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history. At the time, there was a palpable sense that something dramatic was…
Stability AI is finally bringing its generative AI technology for text and video content to Discord.
The new Stable Artisan Discord bot service officially launched today, enabling users to generate images with Stable Diffusion 3 (SD3) and video with Stable Video Diffusion…
The 2nd Annual International AI Film Festival (AIFF), which took place in Downtown Los Angeles on May 1st, marked a pivotal moment for generative AI’s Hollywood integration.
The showcase, which was produced by New York City-headquartered generative AI video startup…
As Google and Microsoft continue to revamp their search engines with generative AI models, smaller players are going in all to challenge them with their AI-first offerings.
Case in point: Upend, a Canadian startup that has just emerged from stealth to empower students and professionals with gen AI search driven by some of the best large language models (LLMs) out there.
Upend started out as a…
In a recent study, researchers at Meta, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and Université Paris-Saclay suggest improving the accuracy and speed of AI large language models (LLMs) by making them predict multiple tokens simultaneously.
This goes against the classic structure of…
Espresso AI, a stealthy Silicon Valley artificial intelligence startup, has raised over $11 million in seed funding to bring the power of AI to perhaps the biggest challenge in enterprise computing today: reining in runaway cloud costs. The funding includes a seed round led…
DataStax, a leading provider of data management solutions for enterprises, announced today its acquisition of Langflow, an innovative startup that has developed an open-source platform for building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications.
The acquisition marks a significant milestone in DataStax’s mission to empower businesses with cutting-edge AI capabilities and accelerate the…
S&P Global, a leading provider of financial intelligence, quietly announced on Wednesday the launch of S&P AI Benchmarks by Kensho. This innovative solution aims to set a new standard for evaluating the performance of large language models (LLMs) in complex financial…
As demand for AI continues to grow, so too is interest and demand in database technologies that help to support AI efforts.
One such vendor is Aerospike which is seeing new demand for its real time NoSQL database platform. To support that demand and help the company expand…
Hailo takes on Nvidia with energy-efficient gen AI accelerator for edge devices and $120M in funding
April 4, 2024
Even as Nvidia continues to mint money from its massive range of generative AI-focused hardware and software offerings, smaller players competing in the same space are not ready to cave in. Case in point: Hailo, an Israel-based startup that just launched a new energy-efficient gen AI accelerator for edge devices.
Officially dubbed Hailo-10, the processor is designed to deploy gen AI applications…
