Justin Maier, the Mormon-raised, Boise, Idaho-based founder of open-source AI platform Civitai, has had a wild year — and a rough few months.
His company was founded a year ago to support a community discovering, creating and sharing models and image-generated content based on the popular text-to-image generator Stable Diffusion. Since then, it has exploded from a four-person startup and less…
ChatGPT rival Pi launches on Android
December 9, 2023
Inflection AI, the Palo Alto-based startup founded by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, just announced that its AI chatbot ‘Pi’ is now available as a dedicated app on Android.
The move, which is expected to give billions of users…
In the equivalent of a mic drop, open source model startup Mistral AI released a new LLM today with nothing but a torrent link.
It immediately created community buzz for the stark contrast with Google’s Gemini release this week, or what OpenAI’s Andrej Karpathy called…
Google’s Gemini AI launch marred by questions over capabilities
December 9, 2023
Google unveiled its much-anticipated artificial intelligence system Gemini on Wednesday, touting benchmarks suggesting it could compete with OpenAI’s industry-leading GPT-4 model in reasoning abilities. But the launch has quickly been overshadowed by accusations that the tech giant overstated Gemini’s capabilities.
In a tightly choreographed video demonstration, Google showed Gemini…
Deepdub, startup with ties to HBO Max and Fox, launches royalty program for AI voice clones
December 8, 2023
You may not yet have heard of Deepdub, but the audio tech startup — founded in 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel — is hoping that you have heard and will hear more of the voices it is recording and publishing.
Deepdub offers artificial intelligence (AI) tools for dubbing voices…
Google is hoping its new Gemini AI model can revive the fortunes of its conversational assistant Bard after Bard’s lackluster performance failed to match the hype.
Bard launched earlier this year with much fanfare, touted as Google’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and…
Google has finally unveiled Gemini, its much-hyped new artificial intelligence (AI) model that experts say could become a key asset in the race for AI supremacy against rivals OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon.
Gemini, which has been anticipated for months as Google’s next big AI breakthrough, represents the tech giant’s largest and most ambitious AI model release yet.
According to CEO…
How should AI be governed? Open source syllabus offers framework
December 8, 2023
Kevin Frazier has ambitious plans to involve more voices in crucial conversations guiding artificial intelligence (AI). As an assistant professor of law at St. Thomas University spearheading an effort to create new legal educational tools for the AI sector, he recognizes…
AI infrastructure major VAST Data’s valuation surges to over $9B after fresh funding
December 7, 2023
VAST Data, the technology company creating an infrastructure layer for the age of AI, today announced it has raised $118 million in a series E round of funding. The round was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company.
The investment, which also saw the participation…
Automated proposal writing startup AutogenAI raises $39.5M from Salesforce Ventures and others
December 7, 2023
Writing proposals to satisfy requests-for-proposals (RFPs) and win funding can be a slog, even for those organizations with experience doing it — as it typically involves a mix of providing tedious, repetitive but highly specific information in many different form fields, all while hewing to very stringent requirements. But getting it right is everything for the organizations submitting…
