As the demand for AI continues to grow, a new category of tools helping with development and deployment is coming to the scene. Case in point: RagaAI, a California-based startup offering a platform to test and fix AI, today emerged from stealth with $4.7 million seed funding from pi Ventures. Global investors Anorak Ventures, TenOneTen Ventures, Arka Ventures, Mana Ventures and Exfinity Venture…
Google’s popular web browser, Chrome, is getting a makeover with the latest release of Chrome M121, which introduces three new generative AI features that aim to make browsing easier, more efficient and more personalized.
The new features, which are available as…
As the generative AI era has ushered in a wave of image generation models trained on data scraped from other artists across the internet, some artists who object to this practice have sought ways to defend their work from AI. (Full disclosure: VentureBeat uses AI art…
Is OpenAI’s ‘moonshot’ to integrate democracy into AI tech more than PR? | The AI Beat
January 23, 2024
Last week, an OpenAI PR rep reached out by email to let me know the company had formed a new “Collective Alignment” team that would focus on “prototyping processes” that allow OpenAI to “incorporate public input to guide AI model behavior.” The goal? Nothing less than democratic AI governance — building on the work of ten recipients of OpenAI’s Democratic Inputs to AI grant…
Within just two years of its inception, ElevenLabs, the AI voice startup founded by former Google and Palantir employees, has hit the unicorn status. The company today announced it has raised $80 million in a series B round of funding, growing its valuation ten-fold to $1.1…
Stability AI unveils smaller, more efficient 1.6B language model as part of ongoing innovation
January 22, 2024
In a Nutshell
Stability AI has released its new Stable LM 2 1.6B model, which is designed to lower barriers and enable more developers to participate in the generative AI ecosystem. The compact but powerful text content generation language model incorporates multilingual…
The missing link of the AI safety conversation
January 22, 2024
In a Nutshell
The conversation around AI development has shifted to focus on the cost of AI and the need for democratization. While advancements in AI have been made through increased scale and computing power, this has created a barrier to entry for many individuals and companies due to the high costs involved. Democratizing AI is crucial for promoting safety and maximizing its positive impact.
Needle in a haystack: How enterprises can safely find practical generative AI use cases
January 22, 2024
AI, particularly generative AI and large language models (LLMs), has made tremendous technical strides and is reaching the inflection point of widespread industry adoption. With McKinsey reporting that AI high-performers are already going “all in on artificial…
Palo Alto-based startup Credo AI announced today that its AI governance platform will now be available on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
According to Credo AI, Databricks customers will be able easily track and manage AI risk and compliance at scale, leveraging…
Despite concerns raised by some educators and administrators, AI is coming to higher education.
Today, Arizona State University announced it has partnered with OpenAI, arguably the leading generative AI company and maker of ChatGPT and DALL-E 3, in a first-of-its-kind alliance to bring the latter’s tech to the former’s institutional processes.
“ASU recognizes that augmented and artificial…
