Artificial intelligence company Cohere unveiled significant updates to its fine-tuning service on Thursday, aiming to accelerate enterprise adoption of large language models. The enhancements support Cohere’s latest Command R 08-2024 model and provide businesses with greater control and visibility into the process of customizing AI models for specific tasks.
The updated offering introduces…
Deepfake incidents are surging in 2024, predicted to increase by 60% or more this year, pushing global cases to 150,000 or more. That’s making AI-powered deepfake attacks the fastest-growing type of adversarial AI today. Deloitte predicts deepfake attacks will cause over…
Not content to play second fiddle to its investment, partner, and apparent competitor OpenAI which is holding its second “DevDay” today, Microsoft announced its own series of major AI updates to its Copilot chatbot, Windows 11 operating system, and Bing search…
Nvidia just dropped a bombshell: Its new AI model is open, massive, and ready to rival GPT-4
October 3, 2024
Nvidia has released a powerful open-source artificial intelligence model that competes with proprietary systems from industry leaders like OpenAI and Google. The company’s new NVLM 1.0 family of large multimodal language models, led by the 72 billion parameter NVLM-D-72B, demonstrates exceptional performance across vision and language tasks while also enhancing text-only capabilities.
“We…
Vera AI Inc., a startup focused on responsible artificial intelligence deployment, announced today the general availability of its AI Gateway platform. The system aims to help organizations more quickly and safely implement AI technologies by providing customizable…
OpenAI isn’t going anywhere: raises $6.6B at $157B valuation
October 3, 2024
Despite a wave of executive departures in recent months, OpenAI has today announced an expected new funding round.
It was always expected to be a whopper, but the amount it raised — $6.6 billion at a $157 billion total company valuation — now makes it the largest…
AI is rapidly evolving, poised to transform the workplace in ways that were thought of as science fiction only a few years ago. For example, Google recently updated its Google’s NotebookLM, an AI-powered research assistant and note-taking tool, with Audio Overview to turn documents into audio discussions. Writing in ArsTechnica, Kyle Orland describes how he used this feature to create a…
Ensemble raises $3.3M to bring ‘dark matter’ tech to enterprise AI
September 30, 2024
Machine learning startup Ensemble has raised $3.3 million in seed funding to address the growing importance of data quality in artificial intelligence. Salesforce Ventures led the round, with participation from M13, Motivate, and Amplo.
Founders Alex Reneau and Zach…
From cost center to competitive edge: The strategic value of custom AI Infrastructure
September 27, 2024
AI is no longer just a buzzword — it’s a business imperative. As enterprises across industries continue to adopt AI, the conversation around AI infrastructure has evolved dramatically. Once viewed as a necessary but costly investment, custom AI infrastructure is now seen…
Cloud, edge or on-prem? Navigating the new AI infrastructure paradigm
September 27, 2024
No doubt, enterprise data infrastructure continues to transform with technological innovation — most notably today due to data-and-resource hungry generative AI.
As gen AI changes the enterprise itself, leaders continue to grapple with the cloud/edge/on-prem question. On the one hand, they need near-instant access to data; on the other, they need to know that that data is protected.
As they face…
