OpenAI is making more moves. The company behind ChatGPT and Dall-E 2 just announced it has acquired Global Illumination, Inc., a New York City-based startup founded in 2021 by a trio of former Facebook and Instagram workers — Thomas Dimson, Taylor Gordon and Joey Flynn, who worked on engineering and product design at the Meta companies, respectively.
“Global Illumination is a company that has…
One of the most unsung jobs of the internet era is that of the content moderator.
Casey Newton, Adrien Chen and others have previously reported eloquently and harrowingly on the plight of these laborers, who number in the thousands and are tasked by large social networks…
Canadian project management platform provider Zenhub, used by more than 8,000 development teams around the globe, has announced its roadmap to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) into its product suite to improve efficiency and take away grunt work.
The company today…
California-based Voiceflow, a startup looking to build the ‘Figma’ of conversational AI, today announced it has raised $15 million in a fresh round of funding led by OpenView Venture Capital. The company said it will use the capital to expand its product’s capabilities and enable more teams to build conversational AI agents targeting different use cases.
The development comes at a time when…
In the latest example of the trend towards smaller, domain-specific large language models (LLMs) trained on proprietary data, Dialpad, the AI-powered customer intelligence platform, announced today the launch of DialpadGPT. It is the first LLM specifically designed and…
How FraudGPT presages the future of weaponized AI
August 15, 2023
FraudGPT, a new subscription-based generative AI tool for crafting malicious cyberattacks, signals a new era of attack tradecraft. Discovered by Netenrich’s threat research team in July 2023 circulating on the dark web’s Telegram channels, it has the potential to…
On the main stage at the DEF CON security conference in a Friday afternoon session (Aug. 11), Craig Martell, chief digital and AI officer at the U.S. Defense Department (DoD), came bearing a number of key messages.
First off, he wants people to understand that large language models (LLMs) are not sentient and aren’t actually able to reason.
Martell and the DoD also want more rigor in model…
Forget SEO: Why ‘AI Engine Optimization’ may be the future
August 15, 2023
According to founder, investor and longtime industry analyst Jeremiah Owyang, Bill Gates’ vision of a personal AI is coming.
That future is one that will disrupt SEO and e-commerce and require marketers and creators to move beyond optimizing traditional search engines to…
Anthropic is on a fundraising spree. After its massive series C round in May and subsequent support from SAP, the AI startup, known for its ChatGPT competitor Claude, is raising an additional $100 million from South Korean telecom major SK Telecom (SKT).
According to a press…
Clari, a leading revenue operations platform, announced today that it has acquired Groove, a leading sales engagement platform, for an undisclosed amount. The deal will enable Clari to offer the first end-to-end revenue platform that executes all internal and external revenue workflows, from prospecting to closing to renewing.
“This is the most transformative day of our history,” Andy Byrne…
