The trend toward small language models is accelerating as Arcee AI announced its $24M Series A funding only 6 months after announcing its $5.5M seed round in January 2024. The company also announced the launch of Arcee Cloud, a hosted SaaS version of their platform. This new offering complements their existing in-VPC deployment option, Arcee Enterprise. The new round, led by Emergence Capital…
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the popular Claude chatbot, announced today the launch of its first official Android app. The move brings Claude’s conversational AI capabilities to millions of potential new users on the world’s most widely used…
An online retailer recently underwent an AI transformation after it realized it no longer needed to employ an expensive local workforce to provide customer support. They split their customer support between AI bots serving as the first tier of support and an offshore team to…
Skillsoft: How to go from AI vision to AI reality
July 15, 2024
Don’t get AI envy — it doesn’t matter where you are on your AI journey, just as long as you’re on it.
Debasis Dutta, SVP and head of Codecademy Enterprise Solutions at Skillsoft, offered this advice at this week’s VB Transform in San Francisco.
“It is the journey which you are on,” he advised. “Just accept where you are, try to learn more, see where you can go and think about…
Jared Kaplan, Anthropic‘s Chief Science Officer and co-founder, didn’t mince words at VentureBeat’s Transform 2024 conference. His message? Generative AI technology is set to become as commonplace as smartphones, reshaping how we work, play, and interact with…
At VentureBeat’s Transform 2024 conference yesterday, VAST Data Founder and CEO Renen Hallak shared insights into the company’s approach to AI infrastructure, offering a glimpse into the future of enterprise AI systems.
Hallak introduced VAST Data’s concept of a global…
Is bigger always better when it comes to large language models (LLMs)?
“Well, the answer is quite simply yes and no,” Yasmeen Ahmad, managing director of strategy and outbound product management for data, analytics and AI at Google Cloud, said onstage at VB Transform this week.
LLMs do get better with size — but not indefinitely, she pointed out. Huge models with a large number of…
Writer drops mind-blowing AI update
July 10, 2024
Writer, a leading enterprise AI platform, has rolled out a suite of powerful enhancements to its artificial intelligence chat applications, announced today at VB Transform. The sweeping improvements, which include advanced graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and…
Following the announcement of Writer‘s newest features, CEO May Habib took to the stage at VB Transform to give context to the latest update and address the challenges facing enterprise generative AI adoption. The enterprise AI platform recently unveiled significant…
Aitomatic announced SemiKong, the world’s first open-source AI Large Language Model (LLM) designed specifically for the semiconductor industry.
Unveiled at Semicon West 2024, SemiKong aims to revolutionize semiconductor processes and fabrication technology, potentially reshaping the $500 billion semiconductor industry in the next five years, the company said.
Developed in collaboration with FPT…
