A three-way partnership between AI phone support company Phonely, inference optimization platform Maitai, and chip maker Groq has achieved a breakthrough that addresses one of conversational artificial intelligence’s most persistent problems: the awkward delays that immediately signal to callers they’re talking to a machine.
The collaboration has enabled Phonely to reduce response times by…
Enterprises need to know if the models that power their applications and agents work in real-life scenarios. This type of evaluation can sometimes be complex because it is hard to predict specific scenarios. A revamped version of the RewardBench benchmark looks to give…
OpenAI’s Sora is now available for FREE to all users through Microsoft Bing Video Creator on mobile
June 3, 2025
OpenAI‘s Sora was one of the most hyped releases of the AI era, launching in December 2024, nearly 10 months after it was first previewed to awe-struck reactions due to its — at the time, at least — unprecedented level of realism, camera dynamism, and prompt adherence…
Google quietly launches AI Edge Gallery, letting Android phones run AI without the cloud
June 3, 2025
Google has quietly released an experimental Android application that enables users to run sophisticated artificial intelligence models directly on their smartphones without requiring an internet connection, marking a significant step in the company’s push toward edge computing and privacy-focused AI deployment.
The app, called AI Edge Gallery, allows users to download and execute AI models from…
Enterprise alert: PostgreSQL just became the database you can’t ignore for AI applications
June 3, 2025
The open-source PostgreSQL (sometimes also referred to as Postgres) is apparently a very hot commodity for big enterprise data platform vendors.
Snowflake is acquiring privately-held PostgreSQL provider Crunchy Data, in a deal that is reportedly valued at $250 million. The…
When Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff recently announced that the company would not hire any more engineers in 2025, citing a “30% productivity increase on engineering” due to AI, it sent ripples through the tech industry. Headlines quickly framed this as the beginning of the…
The recent uproar surrounding Anthropic’s Claude 4 Opus model – specifically, its tested ability to proactively notify authorities and the media if it suspected nefarious user activity – is sending a cautionary ripple through the enterprise AI landscape. While Anthropic clarified this behavior emerged under specific test conditions, the incident has raised questions for technical…
In the past couple of years as AI systems have become more capable of not just generating text, but taking actions, making decisions and integrating with enterprise systems, they have come with additional complexities. Each AI model has its own proprietary way of interfacing…
DeepSeek R1-0528 arrives in powerful open source challenge to OpenAI o3 and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro
May 30, 2025
The whale has returned.
After rocking the global AI and business community early this year with the January 20 initial release of its hit open source reasoning AI model R1, the Chinese startup DeepSeek — a spinoff of formerly only locally well-known Hong Kong quantitative…
New York-based AI startup Hume has unveiled its latest Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) conversational AI model, EVI 3 (pronounced “Evee” Three, like the Pokémon character), targeting everything from powering customer support systems and health coaching to immersive storytelling and virtual companionship.
EVI 3 lets users create their own voices by talking to the model (it’s…
