Despite concerns raised by some educators and administrators, AI is coming to higher education.
Today, Arizona State University announced it has partnered with OpenAI, arguably the leading generative AI company and maker of ChatGPT and DALL-E 3, in a first-of-its-kind alliance to bring the latter’s tech to the former’s institutional processes.
“ASU recognizes that augmented and artificial…
London-based Recraft, a startup offering brands an AI-powered graphic design generator, today announced it has raised $12 million in a series A round of funding.
The investment has been co-led by Khosla Ventures and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, with participation from…
Google researchers are shaking up the AI world by teaching artificial intelligence to say “I don’t know.” This new approach, dubbed ASPIRE, could revolutionize how we interact with our digital helpers by encouraging them to express doubt when they’re unsure of an…
Anthropic hits back at music publishers in AI copyright lawsuit, accusing them of ‘volitional conduct’
January 19, 2024
Anthropic, a major generative AI startup, laid out its case why accusations of copyright infringement from a group of music publishers and content owners are invalid in a new court filing on Wednesday.
In fall 2023, music publishers including Concord, Universal, and ABKCO filed a lawsuit against Anthropic accusing it of copyright infringement over its chatbot Claude (now supplanted by Claude…
AI video is still in its early days but the tech is advancing fast. Case in point, New York City-based Runway, a generative AI startup enabling individuals and enterprises to produce videos in different styles, today updated its Gen-2 foundation model with a new tool, Muti…
Toyota partnered with Ready Robotics to simulate and program industrial robotics using Nvidia’s Omniverse platform.
The “sim-to-real” robotic programming aims to advance industrial robotics, using both Ready Robotics’ Ready ForgeOS and Nvidia Isaac Sim on the…
More ethical AI? Fairly Trained launches to certify gen AI tools trained on licensed data
January 18, 2024
It is in some ways the “original sin” of generative AI: many of the leading models from the likes of OpenAI and Meta have been trained on data scraped from the web without prior knowledge or express permission of those who posted it.
AI companies who took this approach argue it is fair game and legally permissible. As OpenAI put it in a recent blog post: “Training AI models using publicly…
A new artificial intelligence system developed by Google DeepMind, one of the world’s leading AI labs, can solve complex geometry problems at a level comparable to a human gold medalist in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), a prestigious competition for…
DataStax is looking to make it easier for developers to build generative AI retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications with a new data API out today.
DataStax is one of the leading commercial vendors behind the open source Apache Cassandra database, which is the…
Samsung has partnered with Google Cloud to integrate generative AI into Samsung Galaxy S24 Series smartphones.
The companies unveiled a multi-year partnership to bring advanced generative AI to Samsung smartphone users globally. The partnership kicks off with the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S24 series, introduced at the Galaxy Unpacked event in San Jose, California, today.
Samsung becomes the…
