Yesterday’s emerging tech is now essential to business success – and the next wave is coming fast. To maintain competitive advantage through the next five years, which innovations must forward-thinking companies prioritize right now?
At VentureBeat’s Transform 2025, Yaad Oren, global head of SAP research & innovation and Emma Brunskill, associate professor of computer science at…
Building voice AI that listens to everyone: Transfer learning and synthetic speech in action
July 14, 2025
Have you ever thought about what it is like to use a voice assistant when your own voice does not match what the system expects? AI is not just reshaping how we hear the world; it is transforming who gets to be heard. In the age of conversational AI, accessibility has become…
You’re already behind if you’re still vetting engineers like it’s 2021. We’re living through what I believe will be the most transformative technological shift of our lifetime, even bigger than the Internet.
The AI revolution is accelerating at a pace most of us…
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We are living through a time when AI is reshaping how we work but also how we think, perceive and assign meaning. This phase is not just about smarter tools or faster work. AI is beginning to reshape how we define value, purpose and identity itself. The future is not just unpredictable in terms of unknowable events; it is marked by deepening uncertainty about our place…
In a Nutshell
At VentureBeat’s Transform 2025, Matthew Kropp outlined a game plan for companies to derive value from agentic AI by focusing on workflow evolution and employee adoption. Companies should deploy, reshape, and invent with AI, amplifying employees’…
Elon Musk introduced Grok 4 last night, calling it the ‘smartest AI in the world’ — what businesses need to know
July 11, 2025
After days of controversy surrounding a flurry of antisemitic responses made recently by his Grok AI-powered chatbot on his social network X (formerly Twitter), a seemingly unrepentant and unbothered Elon Musk launched the latest version of his AI model family, Grok 4…
AWS seeks to extend its market position with updates to SageMaker, its machine learning and AI model training and inference platform, adding new observability capabilities, connected coding environments and GPU cluster performance management.
However, AWS continues to face competition from Google and Microsoft, which also offer many features that help accelerate AI training and…
VentureBeat announced the winners of the seventh annual Women in AI Awards at VB Transform in San Francisco on June 25.
The awards recognize and honor the women leaders and changemakers in the field of AI. The nominees were submitted by the public and chosen by a…
As generative AI matures, enterprises are shifting from experimentation to implementation—moving beyond chatbots and copilots into the realm of intelligent, autonomous agents. In a conversation with VentureBeat’s Matt Marshall, Ashok Srivastava, SVP and Chief Data…
Open vs. closed models: AI leaders from GM, Zoom and IBM weigh trade-offs for enterprise use
July 10, 2025
Deciding on AI models is as much of a technical decision and it is a strategic one. But choosing open, closed or hybrid models all have trade-offs.
While speaking at this year’s VB Transform, model architecture experts from General Motors, Zoom and IBM discussed how their companies and customers consider AI model selection.
Barak Turovsky, who in March became GM’s first chief AI officer, said…
