AI & Robotics

IBM and Meta launched the new AI Alliance today, in collaboration with more than 50 founding members and collaborators around the world, including AMD, Anyscale, CERN, Cerebras, Cleveland Clinic, Cornell University, Dartmouth, Dell Technologies, EPFL, ETH, Hugging Face, Imperial College London, Intel, INSAIT, Linux Foundation, MLCommons, MOC Alliance operated by Boston University and Harvard…

Quantum computing is taking another ‘quantum’ leap forward today with new processor, system and software updates announced at the IBM Quantum 2023 Summit. The star of the announcements is the IBM Quantum Heron processor, seen below in an image provided to VentureBeat by IBM. With 133 qubits, IBM claims that Heron is its highest-performing quantum processor to date, offering significant…

Yoav Shoham, Co-CEO of a leading large language model (LLM) company A121, reacts to comments made recently by Amazon and others that imply LLMs are losing their differentiation. He disagrees, saying: “Models do differentiate.” Shoham’s company, AI21, is a provider of AI systems for enterprise companies, and it specializes in offering task-specific LLMs, including models that do text…

Amazon is growing its already formidable array of AI services, with a long list of new capabilities announced at the annual AWS re:Invent 2023 conference in Las Vegas today. In a wide ranging keynote session that was nearly 2.5 hours long, Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the largest cloud provider in the world by revenue, number of customers, and data stored, detailed the…