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What does it cost to build a conversational AI?

September 16, 2024
More than 40% of marketing, sales and customer service organizations have adopted generative AI — making it second only to IT and cybersecurity. Of all gen AI technologies, conversational AI will spread rapidly within these sectors, because of its ability to bridge current communication gaps between businesses and customers. Yet many marketing business leaders I’ve spoken to get stuck at the…
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LLaMA-Omni: The open-source AI that’s giving Siri and Alexa a run for their money

September 13, 2024
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed an AI model that could change how we interact with digital assistants. The new system, dubbed LLaMA-Omni, enables real-time speech interaction with large language models (LLMs), promising to transform industries from customer service to healthcare. LLaMA-Omni, built on Meta’s open-source Llama 3.1 8B Instruct model, can process spoken…
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AI Safety Showdown: LeCun Criticizes SB 1047, Hinton Supports Regs

September 12, 2024
Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta, publicly rebuked supporters of California’s contentious AI safety bill, SB 1047, on Wednesday. His criticism came just one day after Geoffrey Hinton, often referred to as the “godfather of AI,” endorsed the legislation. This stark disagreement between two pioneers in artificial intelligence highlights the deep divisions within the AI community over the…
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Agentic AI: A deep dive into the future of automation

September 11, 2024
Beyond generative AI The most transformative promise of AI has always been its potential for autonomy, to create systems that can act intelligently on their own without human supervision. However, this kind of “Agentic AI” has remained out of reach for most enterprise…
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Edge chip maker SiMa.ai launches Modalix to bring multimodal gen AI everywhere

September 11, 2024
Edge computer chip and software startup SiMa.ai, fresh off a $70 million funding round from industry heavyweights including Dell Technologies Capital, is expanding its foothold in the edge AI market with the release of a new, smaller, lower power chip: MLSoC Modalix. At 6 nanometers, it comes in way smaller than the San Jose, California-based startup’s prior MLSoC chip of 16 nanometers. Building…
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