Generative AI has created a profound and positive shift inside of Citi toward data-driven decision making, but for now the nation’s top-three bank has decided against an external facing chatbot because the risks are still too high.
Those remarks, from Citi’s Promiti Dutta, head of analytics technology and innovation, came during a talk she gave during VB’s AI Impact Tour in New York on…
Today, Boston-based Metaplane, a startup looking to improve and rectify data quality issues for enterprises, announced it has raised $13.8 million in a series A round of funding. Venture Capital firm Felicis led the investment with participation from Khosla Ventures…
AI video startup Haiper emerges from stealth, plans to build AGI with full perceptual abilities
March 6, 2024
As OpenAI continues to drive virality with the content produced by Sora, its yet-to-launch AI video platform, competitors are going all in to push the bar with their respective offerings. Just a few days ago, Pika Labs introduced lip-sync to its product. And now, an entirely…
Dell and CrowdStrike are joining forces today to help businesses battle against cyberattacks using AI to protect against generative AI, stealth social engineering and endpoint attacks. Dell is adding CrowdStrike’s Falcon extended detection and response (XDR) platform to its current managed detection and response (MDR) service.
Extended detection and response (XDR) platforms are designed to…
No, it’s not GPT-5, despite rumors to the contrary. Instead, OpenAI answered the arrival of the newly crowned most powerful large language model (LLM) from rival Anthropic today with a minor but potentially useful ChatGPT update for users: voiceover narration for the…
Anthropic, a leading artificial intelligence startup, unveiled its Claude 3 series of AI models today, designed to meet the diverse needs of enterprise customers with a balance of intelligence, speed and cost efficiency. The lineup includes three models: Opus, Sonnet and the…
SambaNova debuts 1 trillion parameter Composition of Experts model for enterprise gen AI
March 5, 2024
SambaNova Systems today announced what could well be one of the largest large language models (LLMs) ever released, with the debut of its one trillion parameter Samba-1.
Samba-1 is not a single model, like OpenAI’s GPT-4, rather it is a combination of more than 50 high-quality AI models put together in an approach that SambaNova refers to as a Composition of Experts architecture. While the…
Gradial, an artificial intelligence startup focused on streamlining marketing workflows, announced today that it has raised a $5.4 million seed funding round led by Madrona, with participation from General Advance, Outsiders Fund and Space Capital.
The company is building a…
Snowflake names Neeva co-founder as CEO with focus on AI opportunity
February 29, 2024
Data cloud company Snowflake announced today that former Neeva co-founder Sridhar Ramaswamy, who has served as Snowflake’s SVP of AI since the company acquired Neeva, an AI-powered search engine, has been named CEO.
Ramaswamy replaces Frank Slootman, who has decided to…
Why does AI have to be nice? Researchers propose ‘Antagonistic AI’
February 29, 2024
When interacting with today’s large language models (LLMs), do you expect them to be surly, dismissive, flippant or even insulting?
Of course not — but they should be, according to researchers from MIT and the University of Montreal. These academics have introduced the idea of Antagonistic AI: That is, AI systems that are purposefully combative, critical, rude and even interrupt users…
