Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based artificial intelligence startup co-founded by two notable ex-Google engineers, announced today that it has raised $30 million in seed funding from high-profile technology investors. The young company, founded just last year, aims to take a different approach to AI by developing smaller, more efficient models inspired by nature.
The seed round was led by Lux Capital…
Stability AI releases Stable Code 3B to fill in blanks of AI-powered code generation
January 17, 2024
Stability AI claims Stable Code 3B outperforms StarCoder across Python, C++, JavaScript, Java, PHP and Rust programming languages.
Stable Code 3B is being made available for commercial use as part of Stability AI’s new membership subscription service that was first…
Last week, OpenAI unveiled its GPT Store for third-party creators of custom chatbots (GPTs) to list and ultimately monetize their creations. But the company isn’t done making news in the first month of 2024.
Late in the day on Monday, OpenAI published a blog post…
New Deloitte gen AI report: Business leaders concerned about societal impact, tech talent
January 16, 2024
Generative AI is moving so quickly that consulting leader Deloitte has published the first edition of a new quarterly survey exploring gen AI’s impact on the enterprise. The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise: Now Decides Next surveyed 2,800 respondents from director to C-suite level across six industries and sixteen countries.
One key survey finding showed that, while optimistic about the…
Last month, I reported on the widening web of connections between the effective altruism (EA) movement and AI security policy circles — from top AI startups like Anthropic to DC think tanks like RAND Corporation. These are linking EA, with its laser-focus on preventing…
PwC survey: 77% of CEOs concerned about AI cybersecurity risks
January 16, 2024
Today, almost every enterprise wants to jump on the generative AI bandwagon. They are building interesting new solutions and are bullish on the prospects of the foundation models.
However, according to a new survey of global CEOs conducted by PwC, despite all major…
VentureBeat’s AI Impact Tour launches with focus on bleeding edge of generative AI and governance
January 15, 2024
VentureBeat launched our AI Impact Tour this week with an event in San Francisco, which included talks about the swift adoption of generative AI in the banking industry, and the cutting-edge areas around governance of the technology.
Our AI Impact Tour is a series of events around the country where we invite enterprise decision-makers to discuss how they are putting AI to work in real…
After AI’s summer: What’s next for artificial intelligence?
January 15, 2024
By any measure, 2023 was an amazing year for AI. Large language Models (LLMs) and their chatbot applications stole the show, but there were advances across a broad swath of uses. These include image, video and voice generation.
The combination of these digital technologies…
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…
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 technology embedded into the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Insights platform. San Francisco-based Typeface only emerged…
