Former Google AI researcher Jakob Uszkoreit was one of the eight co-authors of the seminal 2017 paper “Attention is All You Need,” which introduced the Transformers architecture that went on to underpin ChatGPT and most other large language models (LLMs). The fact that he is the only one of the cohort that transitioned into biotech — co-founding Inceptive, which recently raised $100 million…
Lenovo launches new TruScale edge service to bring AI and ML to brick-and-mortar businesses
September 21, 2023
PC giant Lenovo isn’t content with just selling you or your company laptops — it also wants to the be provider-of-choice for enterprises looking to run machine learning (ML) and AI models right out in the field where they are already doing business, such as at grocery…
Even OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever calls deep learning ‘alchemy’
September 21, 2023
A VentureBeat conversation with machine ethicist Thomas Krendl Gilbert, in which he called today’s AI a form of ‘alchemy,’ not science, raised many eyebrows in this week’s AI Beat.
“The people building it actually think that what they’re doing is magical,” he…
Intel CTO highlights open and secure advances for AI deployment
September 21, 2023
On the second day of the Intel Innovation 2023 event, Intel CTO Greg Lavender detailed how Intel’s developer-first, open ecosystem philosophy is enabling widespread accessibility to artificial intelligence (AI) opportunities.
Lavender said Intel wants to address challenges faced by developers in deploying AI solutions and outlined the company’s approach grounded in openness, choice, trust…
The latest hype cycle around artificial intelligence (AI) is still going strong. From human resources to finance, the benefits of AI seem to have surpassed concerns over the potential risks of extinction some suggest. With the role of AI becoming more prominent…
OpenAI unveils DALL-E 3 with support for text and typography
September 21, 2023
Open AI’s DALL-E 2 AI image generation model is no longer cutting-edge.
Today, the company announced DALL-E 3, its latest text-to-image generator and showed off some of its new impressive features, including the ability to generate readable text baked directly into images…
ServiceNow Vancouver launches with domain-specific generative AI smarts, new automation tools
September 21, 2023
Today, enterprise automation major ServiceNow launched the latest version of its low-code platform: Now Platform Vancouver.
Available starting today, the release brings generative AI smarts aimed at enhancing productivity across workflows, such as customer service, as well as automation tools for strengthening security and governance. It also adds comprehensive solutions for automating…
Acceldata acquires Bewgle to offer customers more visibility into AI data pipelines
September 20, 2023
Data observability major Acceldata is gearing up for the age of AI. Today, the California-headquartered company announced it has acquired Bewgle, an AI and NLP startup founded by ex-Googlers Shantanu Shah and Ganga Kumar.
While the company did not share the exact terms of…
Google Bard can now tap directly into Gmail, Docs, Maps and more
September 20, 2023
Google announced a major upgrade to its Bard conversational AI system today, expanding its capabilities to connect with Google’s most popular productivity apps and services. The enhancements are aimed at making Bard more useful in day-to-day tasks while also addressing…
Mosyle launches AI-driven zero trust platform for securing macOS against cyber threats
September 20, 2023
Apple’s macOS has long had a reputation of being more secure than its rival Microsoft Windows, but that doesn’t mean that hackers aren’t going after macOS computers.
Among the many ways that organizations aim to secure systems today is with a zero trust approach, which is now coming in a limited way to Apple macOS users, thanks to Mosyle. With zero trust, the basic idea is that there is no…
