Google is hoping its new Gemini AI model can revive the fortunes of its conversational assistant Bard after Bard’s lackluster performance failed to match the hype.
Bard launched earlier this year with much fanfare, touted as Google’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude.
However, users quickly found Bard’s responses to be limited, inaccurate and prone to errors. This…
Google has finally unveiled Gemini, its much-hyped new artificial intelligence (AI) model that experts say could become a key asset in the race for AI supremacy against rivals OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon.
Gemini, which has been anticipated for months as Google’s…
How should AI be governed? Open source syllabus offers framework
December 8, 2023
Kevin Frazier has ambitious plans to involve more voices in crucial conversations guiding artificial intelligence (AI). As an assistant professor of law at St. Thomas University spearheading an effort to create new legal educational tools for the AI sector, he recognizes…
AI infrastructure major VAST Data’s valuation surges to over $9B after fresh funding
December 7, 2023
VAST Data, the technology company creating an infrastructure layer for the age of AI, today announced it has raised $118 million in a series E round of funding. The round was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company.
The investment, which also saw the participation of New Enterprise Associates (NEA), BOND Capital and Drive Capital, has grown the valuation of the seven-year-old company…
Automated proposal writing startup AutogenAI raises $39.5M from Salesforce Ventures and others
December 7, 2023
Writing proposals to satisfy requests-for-proposals (RFPs) and win funding can be a slog, even for those organizations with experience doing it — as it typically involves a mix of providing tedious, repetitive but highly specific information in many different form fields…
If you’ve tried out at least a few of the text-to-image AI art generation services that have launched in the past few years, such as Midjourney or OpenAI’s various versions of DALL-E, you have likely noticed some commonalities. Chief among them: all pretty much resemble…
1 in 4 American workers fear AI will take their jobs
December 6, 2023
Ask the average American worker how happy they are with their life and work, and you’ll get a mixed bag of results.
One recent study found that 64% of Americans are more stressed than last year, with 25% saying their stress level is much higher now. Two thirds admit to being somewhat more stressed, with several factors coalescing.
Twenty-nine percent cite personal finances as their top cause of…
Arcweave raises $850k to build AI-powered game creation tools
December 6, 2023
Narrative design platform Arcweave announced today that it has closed its seed round of funding, raising over $850,000. Galaxy Interactive led the round with Genesis Ventures participating. Arcweave plans to use the funding to build out its platform, as well as a…
Open-source SuperDuperDB brings AI into enterprise databases
December 6, 2023
San Francisco-based SuperDuperDB, an Intel Ignite portfolio company working to simplify how teams build and deploy AI apps, today released version 0.1 of its open-source framework.
Available as a Python package, the framework allows users to integrate AI — from machine…
Nous Research, a private applied research group known for publishing open-source work in the large language model (LLM) domain, has dropped a lightweight vision-language model called Nous Hermes 2 Vision.
Available via Hugging Face, the open-source model builds on the company’s previous OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B model. It brings vision capabilities, including the ability to prompt with images…
