Black Forest Labs has quickly made a name for itself as the premiere, high-quality open-source AI image generation startup — even surpassing the quality of models offered by Stability AI, where Black Forest Labs’ founders previously worked. It briefly served as the default image generator in xAI’s Grok language model, too. Designed for professionals in marketing, branding, storytelling and…
Microsoft just built an AI that designs materials for the future: Here’s how it works
January 17, 2025
Microsoft Research has introduced a powerful new AI system today that generates novel materials with specific desired properties, potentially accelerating the development of better batteries, more efficient solar cells and other critical technologies. The system, called…
OpenAI’s agentic era begins: ChatGPT Tasks offers job scheduling, reminders and more
January 17, 2025
ChatGPT is taking a significant step toward becoming a full-blown personal assistant with the release of a new feature called Tasks. This could signal that OpenAI will release more agents in the future.
Currently in beta, Tasks lets ChatGPT Plus, Team and Pro users schedule…
Meet GRAI: The AI That’s Redefining Real Estate Investment
January 16, 2025
In an era where data-driven decisions are redefining industries, the real estate sector is no exception. Traditional methods of evaluating investments often involve tedious research, fragmented data, and a heavy reliance on human expertise. Enter GRAI (Global Real Estate AI) – a cutting-edge chat-based AI platform designed to simplify and supercharge real estate investment decisions, both…
Microsoft’s AutoGen update boosts AI agents with cross-language interoperability and observability
January 16, 2025
Microsoft has updated its AutoGen orchestration framework so the agents it helps build can become more flexible and give organizations more control. AutoGen v0.4 brings robustness to AI agents and solves issues customers identified around architectural constraints.
“The…
Forget Nvidia: Ndea wants to build AI that keeps improving on its own with ‘no bottlenecks in sight’
January 16, 2025
François Chollet, a former Google engineer and the creator of the widely-used Python deep learning framework Keras, has co-founded Ndea, a new AI research and science lab, alongside Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier.
In a post on the startup’s new website, the founders…
Financial services firms are fighting off increasingly sophisticated identity-based attacks intent on stealing billions and disrupting transactions, ultimately destroying trust that took years to build. Today, Rate operates with a “never trust, always verify” approach to validating identities, which is a core concept of zero trust. Using AI threat modeling, Rate can define least privileged…
Story uses Web3 to enable creators to capture the value they contribute to the AI ecosystem
January 13, 2025
Story, an intellectual property blockchain, believes that creators, developers and artists should be able to be rewarded for what they contribute to AI. But it’s not easy to trace their contributions, and Story, which has raised $140 million to date (formerly Story…
Diffbot’s AI model doesn’t guess — it knows, thanks to a trillion-fact knowledge graph
January 13, 2025
Diffbot, a small Silicon Valley company best known for maintaining one of the world’s largest indexes of web knowledge, announced today the release of a new AI model that promises to address one of the biggest challenges in the field: factual accuracy. The new model, a…
Nvidia has announced it has key design wins for autonomous vehicles with car makers such as Toyota, Aurora and Continental.
These partners are part of a growing list for Nvidia, and they’re rolling out next-generation highly automated an autonomous vehicle fleets. Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, made the announcements at his opening keynote speech at CES 2025.
Nvidia announced today that those…
