Salesforce unveiled Agentforce on Thursday, a suite of AI-powered autonomous agents designed to augment human workers across various business functions.
The company positions this as the “third wave” of AI, moving beyond predictive models and generative AI to what it calls “agentic systems.”
Marc Benioff, Chair and CEO of Salesforce, emphasized the transformative potential of AgentForce…
How to prompt on OpenAI’s new o1 models
September 16, 2024
OpenAI’s latest model family, o1, promises to be more powerful and better at reasoning than previous models.
Using GPT-o1 will be slightly different than prompting GPT-4 or even GPT-4o. Since this model has more reasoning capabilities, some regular prompt engineering…
What does it cost to build a conversational AI?
September 16, 2024
More than 40% of marketing, sales and customer service organizations have adopted generative AI — making it second only to IT and cybersecurity. Of all gen AI technologies, conversational AI will spread rapidly within these sectors, because of its ability to bridge current…
Pixtral 12B is here: Mistral releases its first-ever multimodal AI model
September 13, 2024
Mistral AI is finally venturing into the multimodal arena. Today, the French AI startup taking on the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic released Pixtral 12B, its first ever multimodal model with both language and vision processing capabilities baked in.
While the model is not available on the public web at present, its source code can be downloaded from Hugging Face or GitHub to test on individual…
Landbase unveils AI platform to transform go-to-market strategies, secures $12.5M in funding
September 13, 2024
Landbase, a startup aiming to transform sales and marketing automation, emerged from stealth mode today with a $12.5 million seed funding round. The company introduced what it calls the world’s first “agentic AI” platform for go-to-market strategies, potentially…
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed an AI model that could change how we interact with digital assistants. The new system, dubbed LLaMA-Omni, enables real-time speech interaction with large language models (LLMs), promising to transform industries…
Datricks gets $15M from SAP and others for AI-powered risk and compliance platform
September 12, 2024
Datricks, an AI-powered financial integrity and compliance software startup headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by venture capital firm Team8.
The investment also saw participation from SAP, a global enterprise software giant, as well as existing investor Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP).
Co-founded by CEO Haim Halpern and chief technology…
Adobe previews Firefly Video AI model offering high-quality generations
September 12, 2024
Adobe has announced a new addition to its suite of creative tools: the Adobe Firefly Video Model, its own foray into the increasingly competitive AI video generation space, built atop its existing and ever-expanding family of Firefly generative AI still image models, which…
AI Safety Showdown: LeCun Criticizes SB 1047, Hinton Supports Regs
September 12, 2024
Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta, publicly rebuked supporters of California’s contentious AI safety bill, SB 1047, on Wednesday. His criticism came just one day after Geoffrey Hinton, often referred to as the “godfather of AI,” endorsed the legislation. This…
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup backed by tech giants like Amazon and Google, is upping the ante in the fiercely competitive enterprise AI market. The company has unveiled Workspaces, a new feature in its API Console that promises to give businesses unprecedented control and flexibility over their AI deployments.
We’ve added Workspaces to the Anthropic Console.
Workspaces…
