Apple, in collaboration with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), has released a public demo of their 4M AI model on the Hugging Face Spaces platform. This launch comes seven months after the model was initially open-sourced, and represents an important step in expanding access to sophisticated AI technology. The public demo allows a wider range of users to interact with and…
LMSYS launches ‘Multimodal Arena’: GPT-4 tops leaderboard, but AI still can’t out-see humans
July 1, 2024
LMSYS organization launched its “Multimodal Arena” today, a new leaderboard comparing AI models’ performance on vision-related tasks. The arena collected over 17,000 user preference votes across more than 60 languages in just two weeks, offering a glimpse into the…
The era of generative AI is here, ushered in by neural networks capable of generating new data, creating content and making informed decisions based on extensive training datasets. But exactly what generative AI looks like is increasingly an open question: While ChatGPT…
Nvidia leads the age of AI hardware. The company’s high-performance GPUs are being used by some of the biggest technology companies in the world to power the training and inference for some very large models. But, as the Jensen Huang-led giant continues to thrive, a batch of smaller AI hardware companies has also come to the fore, targeting specific niches within the domain. Today, one such…
Democratizing AI: SmythOS is the hero everyone needs
June 28, 2024
Being a student is tough enough. Unfortunately, with gloom and doom scenarios about AI replacing job opportunities, life for students has become even tougher. It’s no wonder that many students are stressed about how or even if they will ever be able to support themselves.
Google to shore up Vertex AI’s enterprise credentials with addition of Mistral Small, Large and Codestral models
June 28, 2024
Google is adding more third-party models to its AI platform to give enterprise customers more freedom when building apps. Days after integrating Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet to Vertex AI, Google revealed that it will be adding support for Mistral Small, Mistral Large, and…
Exclusive: Zip’s AI procurement platform drives $4.4 billion in savings, reshaping enterprise spending
June 28, 2024
Zip, an AI-powered procurement platform, announced today that it has helped customers achieve $4.4 billion in savings since its launch in 2020. The company, which serves enterprises across industries including technology, financial services, and healthcare, is leveraging artificial intelligence to streamline procurement processes and drive cost efficiencies. Rujul Zaparde, Zip’s founder and CEO…
As it seeks to win over enterprise customers, Google is trying to ensure that its AI platform minimizes hallucinations. It’s a big deal for organizations, especially those whose executives are already wary about the technology. Google is doubling down on model grounding to…
Time Magazine partners with OpenAI and ElevenLabs
June 28, 2024
Time Magazine, the iconic red-bordered former news weekly founded 101-years ago by print magnate Henry Luce (who also founded Fortune and Life), appears to be diving headfirst into the generative AI age with partnerships with major AI startups OpenAI and ElevenLabs announced…
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is key to enterprise usage of generative AI, but it’s not as easy as just simply connecting a Large Language Model (LLM) to a database. DataStax is looking to help solve the challenge of enabling RAG for enterprise production deployments, with series of technologies announced today. DataStax is perhaps best known for its commercially supported version of the…
