Meta Platforms has created smaller versions of its Llama artificial intelligence models that can run on smartphones and tablets, opening new possibilities for AI beyond data centers.
The company announced compressed versions of its Llama 3.2 1B and 3B models today that run up to four times faster while using less than half the memory of earlier versions. These smaller models perform nearly as well…
AI agents must solve a host of tasks that require different speeds and levels of reasoning and planning capabilities. Ideally, an agent should know when to use its direct memory and when to use more complex reasoning capabilities. However, designing agentic systems that can…
I’m a writer and always have been. My writing skills are undeniably central to my career as an in-house public relations leader and communications strategist. Admittedly, I scoffed at the notion of generative AI coming for my job. How could a soulless machine match my…
The number of platforms being released to help enterprises integrate AI agents into their technology stack is not slowing down as the year winds down. Work management platform Asana already has an AI agent service, but with its new AI Studio feature, the company wants its customers to think about custom AI agents as part of their larger workflow.
AI Studio lets users build workflows on Asana and…
Stable Diffusion 3.5 debuts as Stability AI aims to improve open models for generating images
October 28, 2024
Stability AI is out today with a major update for its text to image generative AI technology with the debut of Stable Diffusion 3.5. A key goal for the new update is raise the bar and improve upon Stability AI’s last major update, which the company admitted didn’t live…
OpenAI scientist Noam Brown stuns TED AI Conference: ’20 seconds of thinking worth 100,000x more data’
October 24, 2024
Noam Brown, a leading research scientist at OpenAI, took the stage at the TED AI conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to deliver a powerful speech on the future of artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on OpenAI’s new o1 model and its potential to transform…
Non-English game developers may soon be looking toward AI as a means to shorten localization times. In an interview with 4Gamer (translated by Siliconera) at Tokyo Game Show, Nihon Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo posited the idea of using artificial intelligence to more quickly localize games developed in the Japanese language. Kondo took the stage after a demonstration of ELLA, software created…
A pair of researchers at OpenAI researchers has published a paper describing a new type of model — specifically, a new type of continuous-time consistency model (sCM) — that increases the speed at which multimedia including images, video, and audio can be generated by AI…
DataStax looks to help enterprises stuck in AI ‘development hell’, with a little help from Nvidia
October 22, 2024
DataStax has been steadily expanding its data platform in recent years to help meet the growing need of enterprise AI developers. Today the company is taking the next step forward with the launch of the DataStax AI Platform, Built with Nvidia AI. The new platform integrates…
Neuro AI Platform: Ideate, Prototype, and Test with Ease
October 22, 2024
Cognizant’s Neuro AI platform, announced last year, will get more AI as the consultancy adds multi-agent capabilities to the service. The Neuro AI platform helps organizations ideate, prototype and test generative AI applications without coding. Babak Hodjat, Cognizant’s CTO of AI, told VentureBeat the service used to be something Cognizant’s experts did for customers. However, Neuro AI…
