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Rabbit unveils r1 AI pocket companion to handle tasks for you

January 11, 2024
Tech startup Rabbit has unveiled r1, an an AI-powered companion device that does digital tasks for you. Los Angeles-based Rabbit raised $30 million for this effort and now it’s showing off its product at CES 2024, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas. The r1 is designed to simplify digital tasks by bridging the gap between human intent and device action. This device is the first to feature…
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MMGuardian debuts AI smartphones for kids

January 11, 2024
MMGuardian introduced an AI-powered smartphone for kids emphasizing child safety. Announced at the CES 2024 tech trade show in Las Vegas, MMGuardian designed the AI smartphone particularly for kids to address the evolving needs of teenagers. It offers a suite of features…
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Ask-AI gets $11M to advance customer support and more with ‘ASK’ Chrome extension

January 11, 2024
Customer support is one of the more obvious areas for enterprises to deploy AI solutions — but done incorrectly, it can backfire in a big way, as we learned from the various Chevrolet car dealerships that chose to use a version of OpenAI’s GPT only to have customers begin tricking it into giving them discounts on cars down to $1. But Ask-AI is taking a different approach, launching a new…
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AI-driven drug discovery is poised to boom in 2024

January 10, 2024
AI-driven drug discovery is about to boom in 2024, if the fast and furious pace of announcements timed to coincide to this week’s 42nd annual JP Morgan Healthcare conference are any clue. One of the biggest headlines came yesterday from Isomorphic Labs, a unit of Google’s parent company Alphabet company which is led by Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis. Isomorphic collaboration with Lilly…
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Samsung forges ahead with AI for all message

January 10, 2024
Samsung put much of the marketing punch of its CES 2024 event behind the idea of making AI for all, using the transformational force of AI in the cause of democratizing technology. It was a familiar theme of the day at the press day for the big tech trade show in Las Vegas…
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Why Writer’s Palmyra LLM is the little AI model that could for enterprises

January 10, 2024
Writer, a three-year-old San Francisco-based startup which raised $100 million in September 2023 to bring its proprietary, enterprise-focused large language models to more companies, doesn’t hit the headlines as often as OpenAI, Anthropic or Meta — or even as much as hot LLM startups like France-based Mistral AI. But Writer’s family of in-house LLMs, called Palmyra, may well be the little…
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