VentureBeat recently sat down (virtually) with Nir Valtman, CEO and co-founder of Arnica. Valtman’s extensive cybersecurity experience includes leading product and data security across Finastra, establishing and hardening security practices and posture management at Kabbage (acquired by Amex) as CISO, and heading application security across NCR. He is also serving on the advisory board of Salt…
Asato: A new AI copilot for CIOs
December 6, 2023
Digital transformation is critical for modern enterprises. However, it has also made the CIO role incredibly challenging. They have to deal with data sprawl, SaaS apps all over the place, purchases and expenses not being well tracked and usage not being easy to pin…
IBM, Meta launch AI Alliance with over 50 tech members to advance ‘open, safe, responsible’ AI
December 6, 2023
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…
Runway ML is partnering with Getty Images on new AI video models for Hollywood and advertising
December 6, 2023
Runway ML, the New York City video AI startup backed by Google and Nvidia, continues to entrench itself in the marketplace of the future.
Today, the company announced it is partnering with Getty Images, one of the largest repositories of paid stock imagery and editorial imagery in the world, to develop a new generative AI video model: Runway <> Getty Images Model (RGM).
Here’s how Runway…
Last week, a team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley published a highly anticipated paper in the journal Nature describing an “autonomous laboratory” or “A-Lab” that aimed to use artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to accelerate the…
IBM advances Quantum Computing ambitions with generative AI power for software development
December 5, 2023
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…
Fei-Fei Li and the binders full of women in AI | The AI Beat
December 5, 2023
I thought about Fei-Fei Li this weekend. Fei-Fei Li, the computer science researcher known for creating ImageNet, the image dataset that enabled the rapid AI advances in computer vision that led to AlexNet, the convolutional neural network that fired up the deep learning “revolution” that began in 2012. Fei-Fei Li, professor of computer science at Stanford University for nearly 15 years and…
AI has been transformative, especially with the public drop of ChatGPT. But for all the potential AI holds, its development at its current pace, if left unchecked, comes with more than a few concerns. Leading AI research lab Anthropic (along with many others) is worried…
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…
In VentureBeat’s reporting on generative AI, one company in particular stands out among enterprise companies for speed and adeptness at deploying the technology at scale.
That company is Intuit. In September, Intuit introduced an LLM-drive assistant, called Intuit Assist, across all of its products, including TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, MailChimp. It announced its own Gen AI operating…
