AI red teaming is proving effective in discovering security gaps that other security approaches can’t see, saving AI companies from having their models used to produce objectionable content. Anthropic released its AI red team guidelines last week, joining a group of AI providers that include Google, Microsoft, NIST, NVIDIA and OpenAI, who have also released comparable frameworks. All announced…
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…
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 pre-seed round of funding, led by Y Combinator’s former head of AI Daniel Gross and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman.
While…
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…
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 enablement, said the company is implementing several measures as part of this initiative. These include requiring data scientists to…
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…
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 across all its devices.
One of the most impressive aspects of the demonstrations was how much of the workload is taking place on…
