AI & Robotics

One year ago — and two weeks before OpenAI released ChatGPT — Meta released a research demo called Galactica. An open source “large language model for science” that was trained on data including 48 million scientific papers, Meta touted Galactica’s ability to “summarize academic literature, solve math problems, generate Wiki articles, write scientific code, annotate molecules and…

Generative AI is all anyone can talk about. It is a breakthrough technology with transformational promises across numerous domains — even human life itself.   And while 2023 was undoubtedly the year that gen AI had its breakout, that has largely been hype, according to a Menlo Ventures report shared exclusively with VentureBeat.  Gen AI still accounts for a “relatively paltry” amount of…

Voice cloning — the practice of mimicking someone’s voice so well it can pass for the real thing — has had a banner year, with a range of AI startups and techniques emerging to enable it, and a song going viral featuring voice clones of popular music artists Drake and The Weeknd. But for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the U.S. federal government agency in charge of investigating and…

At a time when figuring out how to use AI to drive business gains is the “Holy Grail” of almost every enterprise, vendors are racing to introduce new and lucrative tools to make it easier for their customers to build high-performing AI/ML-powered applications. The focus has largely been on low-code development, but Iterate is taking steps to get rid of the coding layer entirely. The…