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White House gets AI firms to agree to voluntary safeguards, but not new regulations

Today, the Biden-⁠Harris Administration announced that it has secured voluntary commitments from seven leading AI companies to manage the short- and long-term risks of AI models. Representatives from OpenAI, Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta and Microsoft are set to sign the commitments at the White House this afternoon. The commitments secured include ensuring products are safe before…
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Cleanlab emerges with $5 million to automate data curation for LLMs and the modern AI stack

Cleanlab, a startup that provides a data curation solution for large language models (LLMs) used in enterprise AI, announced today that it has secured $5 million in seed funding. The investment round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, marking a significant vote of confidence in Cleanlab’s mission to eliminate the “dirty data problem” plaguing the machine learning space. The startup, founded…
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PlusMusic.ai uses AI to create in-game soundtracks

PlusMusic.ai, a first-of-its-kind adaptive audio AI platform, is using AI to streamline the process of creating and integrating music into games. The company is aiming to revolutionize the future of in-game soundtrack creation and music as downloadable content (DLC) revenue…
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Reimagining the data center for the age of generative AI

This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: The future of the data center: Handling greater and greater demands. Today, any conversation about artificial intelligence is bound to include the rise of ChatGPT, the ubiquitous chatbot built on OpenAI’s GPT series of large language models (LLMs). But how can you feed the demands of this kind of generative AI technology in…
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AI21 Labs debuts Contextual Answers, a plug-and-play AI engine for enterprise data

AI21 Labs, the Tel Aviv-based NLP major behind the Wordtune editor, has announced the launch of a plug-and-play generative AI engine to help enterprises drive value from their data assets. Dubbed Contextual Answers, the offering comes as a dedicated API that can be directly embedded into digital assets to implement large language model (LLM) technology on select organizational data. It can enable…
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