Last week, a team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley published a highly anticipated paper in the journal Nature describing an “autonomous laboratory” or “A-Lab” that aimed to use artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to accelerate the discovery and synthesis of new materials.
Dubbed a “self-driving lab,” the A-Lab presented an ambitious vision of what an…
IBM advances Quantum Computing ambitions with generative AI power for software development
December 5, 2023
Quantum computing is taking another ‘quantum’ leap forward today with new processor, system and software updates announced at the IBM Quantum 2023 Summit.
The star of the announcements is the IBM Quantum Heron processor, seen below in an image provided to VentureBeat by…
Fei-Fei Li and the binders full of women in AI | The AI Beat
December 5, 2023
I thought about Fei-Fei Li this weekend. Fei-Fei Li, the computer science researcher known for creating ImageNet, the image dataset that enabled the rapid AI advances in computer vision that led to AlexNet, the convolutional neural network that fired up the deep learning…
AI has been transformative, especially with the public drop of ChatGPT. But for all the potential AI holds, its development at its current pace, if left unchecked, comes with more than a few concerns. Leading AI research lab Anthropic (along with many others) is worried about the destructive power of AI — even as it competes with ChatGPT. Other concerns, including the elimination of millions of…
Yoav Shoham, Co-CEO of a leading large language model (LLM) company A121, reacts to comments made recently by Amazon and others that imply LLMs are losing their differentiation.
He disagrees, saying: “Models do differentiate.”
Shoham’s company, AI21, is a provider of…
In VentureBeat’s reporting on generative AI, one company in particular stands out among enterprise companies for speed and adeptness at deploying the technology at scale.
That company is Intuit. In September, Intuit introduced an LLM-drive assistant, called Intuit Assist…
Looking back at a transformative year for AI
December 4, 2023
It has been a year since OpenAI quietly launched ChatGPT as a “research preview,” a chatbot based on a large language model (LLM).
LLMs are a particular implementation of transformer neural networks, a technology that first surfaced in a 2017 paper from Google.
ChatGPT provided a user-friendly interface to the underlying LLM GPT-3.5 and became the fastest growing consumer technology ever…
Highlights from the AWS re:Invent keynote: Q AI, strong bedrock foundation, and a smarter cloud
November 29, 2023
Amazon is growing its already formidable array of AI services, with a long list of new capabilities announced at the annual AWS re:Invent 2023 conference in Las Vegas today.
In a wide ranging keynote session that was nearly 2.5 hours long, Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web…
Micro1, a Los Angeles-based startup, is aiming to transform how companies build engineering teams in the AI age. The company announced last month it raised $3.3 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round to expand its AI-powered recruiting platform. With the new…
Today, Pika Labs, a six-month-old video AI startup, announced it has raised $35 million in a series A round of funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, alongside earlier side rounds, putting the total raised by the young firm at $55 million.
The company also unveiled Pika 1.0, a new web platform building upon its earlier beta release that allows users to generate and edit videos in diverse…
