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…
Agentic AI: A deep dive into the future of automation
September 11, 2024
Beyond generative AI
The most transformative promise of AI has always been its potential for autonomy, to create systems that can act intelligently on their own without human supervision. However, this kind of “Agentic AI” has remained out of reach for most enterprise…
Edge computer chip and software startup SiMa.ai, fresh off a $70 million funding round from industry heavyweights including Dell Technologies Capital, is expanding its foothold in the edge AI market with the release of a new, smaller, lower power chip: MLSoC Modalix.
At 6…
AI2’s new model aims to be open and powerful yet cost effective
September 10, 2024
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) released a new open-source model that hopes to answer the need for a large language model (LLM) that is both a strong performer and cost-effective. The new model, which it calls OLMoE, leverages a sparse mixture of experts (MoE) architecture. It has 7 billion parameters but uses only 1 billion parameters per input token. It has two versions: OLMoE-1B-7B, which is…
How AI is making copyright issues more complicated | Devcom panel
September 10, 2024
AI and games has become the hottest topic at game conferences like Devcom, the game developer conference that precedes the giant Gamescom expo every year in Cologne.
At the event, I moderated a panel that explored the notion of the limits of intellectual…
AI Tools: Crafting harmony or creating dependency?
September 10, 2024
As AI tools become increasingly integrated into our daily lives, we face a critical question: Are we harnessing their power to enhance our abilities, or are we slowly outsourcing our minds — or both?
As an early adopter of generative AI tools like DALL-E, ChatGPT, Claude…
Meet the new, most powerful open source AI model in the world: HyperWrite’s Reflection 70B
September 9, 2024
There’s a new king in town: Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of AI writing startup HyperWrite, today unveiled Reflection 70B, a new large language model (LLM) based on Meta’s open source Llama 3.1-70B Instruct that leverages a new error self-correction technique and boasts superior performance on third-party benchmarks.
As Shumer announced in a post on the social network X, Reflection-70B now…
These five personas show how workers approach AI says Slack survey
September 9, 2024
A new survey from Slack and Salesforce showed that organizations struggling to improve AI adoption could benefit from personalizing their approach to employees.
The latest Slack Workforce Index survey reached out to 5,000 full-time desk workers on their AI usage. It found…
The AI frenzy is taking over the world. Mere days after China’s Alibaba made headlines with Qwen2-VL, Sakana AI, the Japanese startup founded by former Google researchers David Ha and Llion Jones and former diplomat Ren Ito, has announced it has raised $100 million in a…
71% of leaders prefer hiring candidates with AI skills over those with the relevant industry experience
September 5, 2024
If you’re not upskilling or upskilled in AI, the 2024 Annual Work Trend Index from Microsoft and LinkedIn makes for grim reading.
After surveying 31,000 people in 31 countries, its researchers have discovered a change in employer preferences from seeking AI aptitude over proven track records.
Some 71% of executives said they would rather hire applicants with AI expertise over those with actual…