Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, which previously made headlines with a ChatGPT competitor trained on 2 trillion English and Chinese tokens, has announced the release of DeepSeek Coder V2, an open-source mixture of experts (MoE) code language model. Built upon DeepSeek-V2, an MoE model that debuted last month, DeepSeek Coder V2 excels at both coding and math tasks. It supports more than 300…
Runway unveils new hyper realistic AI video model Gen-3 Alpha, capable of 10-second-long clips
June 18, 2024
New York City-based Runway ML, also known as Runway, was among the earliest startups to focus on realistic high-quality generative AI video creation models. But following the debut of its Gen-1 model in February 2023 and Gen-2 in June 2023, the company has since seen its…
Today, Zeta Labs, a London-based startup founded by former Meta engineers Fryderyk Wiatrowski and Peter Albert, announced the launch of Jace, an LLM-powered AI agent that can execute in-browser actions on command.
The company also announced it has raised $2.9 million in a…
Innovation in machine learning and AI training continues to accelerate, even as more complex generative AI workloads come online.
Today MLCommons released the MLPerf 4.0 training benchmark, once again showing record levels of performance. The MLPerf training benchmark is a vendor neutral standard that enjoys broad industry participation. The MLPerf Training suite measures performance of full AI…
AI and the future of storytelling | Inworld AI
June 14, 2024
Kylan Gibbs, CEO and cofounder of Inworld AI, gave a talk recently at the TED 2024 conference. In the talk, he delivered is vision for the future of AI and storytelling in games.With the kinds of AI agents that Inworld enables, audiences can now step beyond the script…
Verizon is using generative AI applications to enhance customer support and experience for its more than 100 million phone customers, and is expanding its responsible AI team to mitigate its risks.
Michael Raj, a vice president overseeing AI for Verizon’s network…
The Women in AI Breakfast, presented by Capital One, and the Women in AI Awards are returning to Transform 2024, VentureBeat’s flagship event, for the sixth year in a row. As the generative AI revolution gains momentum, it’s an especially critical year to recognize and celebrate the women impacting the technology, as well as the ways they’re helping shape the future of the industry. After…
Databricks is raising the bar on enterprise gen AI developer tools. Today, at its annual data and AI conference, the Ali Ghodsi-led company announced several new enhancements for its Mosaic AI platform, aimed at helping enterprises deploy large language model (LLM)-powered…
What we know about Apple’s on-device AI
June 12, 2024
Following Microsoft Build and Google I/O, Apple was under a lot of pressure to show its on-device AI might at its Worldwide Developers Conference 2024. And as far as the demos are concerned, Apple has done a great job of integrating generative AI into the user experience…
It’s the issue that takes the headlines and the question that keeps execs up at night: How do organizations audit their AI models for bias, performance and ethical standards?
VentureBeat welcomed UiPath and others to the latest VB AI Impact Tour in New York City to talk about methodologies, best practices and real world case studies. Michael Raj, VP of network enablement (AI and data) at Verizon…
