Hume AI, the startup specializing in emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, has launched Voice Control, an experimental feature that empowers developers and users to create custom AI voices through precise modulation of vocal characteristics — no coding, AI prompt engineering, or sound design skills required.
This release builds on the foundation laid by the company’s earlier Empathic Voice…
As rumors and reports swirl about the difficulty facing top AI companies in developing newer, more powerful large language models (LLMs), the spotlight is increasingly shifting toward alternate architectures to the “Transformer” — the tech underpinning most of the…
The competition between startups and big companies such as Google and Meta to offer compelling AI video creation tools has entered a new phase. Luma AI, a startup founded by former Googlers and others, is dramatically expanding its Dream Machine AI video model with a new…
Thomson Reuters launched testing today of a custom version of OpenAI’s newest language model in its CoCounsel legal assistant. The implementation marks the first enterprise customization of the o1-mini model and reveals how large companies are now transforming their artificial intelligence strategies.
The media and technology giant has implemented a strategic approach by deploying specialized AI…
One decision many enterprises have to make when implementing AI use cases revolves around connecting their data sources to the models they’re using.
Different frameworks like LangChain exist to integrate databases, but developers must write code whenever they connect…
H2O.ai improves AI agent accuracy with predictive models
November 22, 2024
Open-source AI platform provider H2O.ai believes a blend of generative and predictive AI models makes for more consistent responses which enterprises want from an AI agent.
H2O.ai launched its new multi-agent platform that blends generative and predictive AI and is now…
The era of AI agents has officially arrived, and Microsoft is leading the charge. At Ignite, the company made bold claims about its advancements in enterprise AI, including 100,000 organizations already deploying or editing AI agents. These announcements suggest Microsoft is about to disrupt how enterprises approach automation, as well as startups competing in this space.
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Nvidia it is working with Google Quantum AI to accelerate the design of its next-generation quantum computing devices using simulations powered by Nvidia.
Google Quantum AI is using the hybrid quantum-classical computing platform and the Nvidia Eos supercomputer to simulate…
DeepSeek’s first reasoning model R1-Lite-Preview turns heads, beating OpenAI o1 performance
November 21, 2024
DeepSeek, an AI offshoot of Chinese quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer Capital Management focused on releasing high-performance open-source tech, has unveiled the R1-Lite-Preview, its latest reasoning-focused large language model (LLM), available for now exclusively through…
Snowflake beats Databricks to integrating Claude 3.5 directly
November 21, 2024
Soon after announcing its earnings for the third quarter of FY25, Snowflake dropped a bombshell: It is teaming up with leading AI vendor Anthropic to further advance AI projects for its customers.
The data ecosystem giant has signed a multi-year strategic agreement, bringing Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 family of models to its core platform on AWS. The move will allow enterprises using Snowflake to…
