At the DataGrail Summit 2024 this week, industry leaders delivered a stark warning about the rapidly advancing risks associated with AI.
Dave Zhou, CISO of Instacart, and Jason Clinton, CISO of Anthropic, highlighted the urgent need for robust security measures to keep pace with the exponential growth of AI capabilities during a panel titled “Creating the Discipline to Stress Test AI—Now—for…
Why we need to check the gen AI hype and get back to reality
September 2, 2024
For the past 18 months, I have observed the burgeoning conversation around large language models (LLMs) and generative AI. The breathless hype and hyperbolic conjecture about the future have ballooned— perhaps even bubbled — casting a shadow over the practical…
Nvidia researchers have unveiled “Eagle,” a new family of artificial intelligence models that significantly improves machines’ ability to understand and interact with visual information.
The research, published on arXiv, demonstrates major advancements in tasks ranging…
Open-source AI is finally closing in on the dominance of closed-source. Today, Meta, one of the leading players in the open model category, shared a mid-year update claiming that the adoption of its Llama family of models has surged to new heights, especially since the release of the large Llama 3.1 last month.
The Mark Zuckerberg-led company revealed that the downloads for Llama models are…
Researchers from Tsinghua University and Zhipu AI have unleashed CogVideoX, an open-source text-to-video model that threatens to disrupt the AI landscape dominated by startups like Runway, Luma AI and Pika Labs. This breakthrough, detailed in a recent arXiv paper, puts…
Even while some visual artists seek to fight back against generative AI companies in court, other mainstream artists are rapidly embracing the tech and using it to create new projects in their aesthetic.
Case in point: earlier this week, pop star The Weekend, real name Abel…
OpenAI strikes content deal with Condé Nast, raising questions about future of publishing
August 26, 2024
Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has reached an agreement with Condé Nast, the publisher behind Vogue, The New Yorker, and Wired, in a move that could reshape the media landscape.
The multi-year partnership grants OpenAI access to Condé Nast’s extensive content archive while providing the publisher with advanced technology tools.
We’re partnering with Condé Nast to deepen the…
Microsoft isn’t resting its AI success on the laurels of its partnership with OpenAI.
No, far from it. Instead, the company often known as Redmond for its headquarters location in Washington state today came out swinging with the release of 3 new models in its evolving Phi…
OpenAI today announced that it is allowing third-party software developers to fine-tune — or modify the behavior of — custom versions of its signature new large multimodal model (LMM), GPT-4o, making it more suitable for the needs of their application or…
How Piramidal is using AI to decode the human brain
August 23, 2024
The human brain is ultimately one of the last frontiers — a paradoxical black box that we can’t even begin to understand ourselves.But what if, just as paradoxically, AI could interpret the complexities of the brain to help identify and diagnose some of our most serious diseases? That’s exactly what Y Combinator-backed startup Piramidal has set out to do. The company is building a…
