The AI frenzy is taking over the world. Mere days after China’s Alibaba made headlines with Qwen2-VL, Sakana AI, the Japanese startup founded by former Google researchers David Ha and Llion Jones and former diplomat Ren Ito, has announced it has raised $100 million in a series A round of funding.
The investment has been led by several industry heavyweights, including New Enterprise Associates…
71% of leaders prefer hiring candidates with AI skills over those with the relevant industry experience
September 5, 2024
If you’re not upskilling or upskilled in AI, the 2024 Annual Work Trend Index from Microsoft and LinkedIn makes for grim reading.
After surveying 31,000 people in 31 countries, its researchers have discovered a change in employer preferences from seeking AI aptitude over…
Luma AI debuts Dream Machine 1.6 video generator with camera motions
September 5, 2024
AI video generators are multiplying in number and increasing in realism, but one big roadblock preventing them from replacing traditionally filmed video is a lack of fine-grained control.
Many leading AI generators allow users to enter text prompts and/or upload still images…
Anthropic to release system prompts for Artifacts, latest Claude family prompts found incomplete
September 5, 2024
Last week, Anthropic released the system prompts — or the instructions for a model to follow — for its Claude family of models, but it was incomplete. Now, the company promises to release the system prompts for its newest feature, Artifacts, in the coming weeks after researchers pointed out its exclusion.
A spokesperson for Anthropic confirmed to VentureBeat that it will “add more details…
At the DataGrail Summit 2024 this week, industry leaders delivered a stark warning about the rapidly advancing risks associated with AI.
Dave Zhou, CISO of Instacart, and Jason Clinton, CISO of Anthropic, highlighted the urgent need for robust security measures to keep pace…
Why we need to check the gen AI hype and get back to reality
September 2, 2024
For the past 18 months, I have observed the burgeoning conversation around large language models (LLMs) and generative AI. The breathless hype and hyperbolic conjecture about the future have ballooned— perhaps even bubbled — casting a shadow over the practical…
Nvidia researchers have unveiled “Eagle,” a new family of artificial intelligence models that significantly improves machines’ ability to understand and interact with visual information.
The research, published on arXiv, demonstrates major advancements in tasks ranging from visual question answering to document comprehension.
Nvidia presents Eagle
Exploring The Design Space for…
Open-source AI is finally closing in on the dominance of closed-source. Today, Meta, one of the leading players in the open model category, shared a mid-year update claiming that the adoption of its Llama family of models has surged to new heights, especially since the…
Researchers from Tsinghua University and Zhipu AI have unleashed CogVideoX, an open-source text-to-video model that threatens to disrupt the AI landscape dominated by startups like Runway, Luma AI and Pika Labs. This breakthrough, detailed in a recent arXiv paper, puts…
Even while some visual artists seek to fight back against generative AI companies in court, other mainstream artists are rapidly embracing the tech and using it to create new projects in their aesthetic.
Case in point: earlier this week, pop star The Weekend, real name Abel Tesfaye, unveiled a new teaser trailer for a YouTube livestream of his upcoming concert in São Paulo, Brazil on Sept. 7…
