As the retail industry gears up for the big NRF 2024 conference that gets started on Jan. 13, it is clear that generative AI will be top of mind for many and Google is aiming to be a key part of the action.
Today Google Cloud announced a series of AI technologies and services designed to help retailers deliver more personalized and efficient shopping experiences to their customers. The new…
Microsoft wants to make it easier for marketers to build campaigns and it’s integrating with technology from generative AI startup Typeface to get it done.
Today Microsoft and Typeface announced an integration that will see the startup’s highly-customizable generative AI…
One of the world’s largest AI training datasets is about to get bigger and ‘substantially better’
January 12, 2024
Massive AI training datasets, or corpora, have been called “the backbone of large language models.” But EleutherAI, the organization that created one of the world’s largest of these datasets, an 825 GB open-sourced diverse text corpora called the Pile, became a target…
Legacy tech giants Microsoft and SAP are elbowing into the retail industry’s rapid adoption of artificial intelligence, hoping their new tools will help retailers struggling to keep pace with changing consumer behaviors and unrelenting market volatility.
This week, ahead of the National Retail Federation’s flagship conference (Jan. 14-16), Microsoft and SAP have each unveiled new…
OpenAI launches new ChatGPT Team tier targeting SMBs
January 11, 2024
OpenAI is moving more aggressively to corner the market on generative AI for enterprises large and small.
Today, the maker of ChatGPT is announcing a new subscription tier that slots in neatly between its ChatGPT Plus paid subscription for individual users ($20 per month)…
AppsFlyer has introduced its AI-powered Creative Optimization tool to transform marketing campaigns.
San Francisco-based AppsFlyer aims to transform the landscape of marketing campaigns by using AI to improve the creative process, using AI to give marketers new insights into…
Tab’s always-on AI pendant just got funded — but do we need it?
January 11, 2024
At a time when large language models (LLMs) are all the rage, companies have started building them into all sorts of hardware – and they are getting the attention for it.
Case in point: Tab, a wearable AI startup, just announced it has raised $1.9 million in seed funding at a reported valuation of nearly $20 million.
Tab’s value proposition is that it wants to bring an AI pendant, one that…
Intel has acquired Silicon Mobility SAS, a portfolio company of Cipio Partners and Capital-E and a fablessautomotive silicon and software company that designs, develops and deploys EV energymanagement SoCs.
Silicon Mobility’s SoCs feature industry-leading accelerators…
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…
OpenAI launches GPT Store but revenue sharing is still to come
January 11, 2024
OpenAI’s GPT Store is finally here — but third-party creators of GPTs may have to wait a bit longer to start getting paid for their custom GPTs, as the revenue sharing portion is not kicking in just yet, and won’t until sometime later in the first quarter of this year.
What the what? How is it a “store” if you can’t make any money from it yet? Well, read on while I attempt to explain.
