Continuing its work with AI, Salesforce today announced it is rolling out native generative AI capabilities within Slack — or Slack AI.
Generally available starting today, the features empower users with built-in search and summary capabilities that make it easier for them to find the information they need in a matter of seconds. The same task could previously take several minutes to an hour…
San Francisco-based Rasa, a startup working to streamline enterprise customer service with generative AI, has raised $30 million in a series C round of funding, co-led by StepStone Group and PayPal Ventures. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Accel and Basis Set Ventures also…
True Source unveils AI LLM service based on The Wheel of Time
February 16, 2024
In a groundbreaking collaboration, iWot productions and AI software firm D1srupt1ve are creating True Source, a venture aimed at launching an AI-based large language model (LLM) based on Robert Jordan’s renowned The Wheel of Time series.
The AI service, branded as the One…
Looking for more intelligence from meetings? Otter.ai is taking a shot with ‘Meeting GenAI’
February 15, 2024
Otter.ai is expanding its namesake platform today with a series of new features the vendor has dubbed “Meeting GenAI,” designed to boost meeting intelligence.
The San Francisco-based startup provides online artificial intelligence (AI) powered voice transcription services. It integrates with many common meeting providers including Zoom. In June 2023, the company first debuted its Otter AI chat…
WellSaid Labs, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) voice company, unveiled a new technology today that allows users to direct the performance of AI voices in a more natural, nuanced way. The technology, called HINTS (Highly Intuitive Naturally Tailored Speech), enables…
The second full year of the generative AI era began in November 2023, but surveys show most enterprises are still just getting a handle on how they want to deploy the technology — and which models and applications to use.
For those who are still in that exploratory phase…
Bret Taylor, the former co-CEO of Salesforce and the current chairman of OpenAI’s board, just made his play in the rapidly growing conversational AI space with the launch of Sierra, an AI agent startup for businesses.
Founded with Google’s former head of VR Clay Bavor, Sierra aims to empower enterprises with their own AI agents. This will enable them to take their digital operations to a…
How AI is strengthening XDR to consolidate tech stacks
February 14, 2024
Deciphering weak telemetry signals by using AI to analyze behaviors and detect threats in real time is the future of extended detection and response (XDR).
VentureBeat continues to see CISOs and their security teams migrate from Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) to XDR…
AppLovin today released its second yearly report on Performance-Driven Ad Trends, in which it illuminates some of the most successful ad strategies and trends in 2023. According to the report, generative AI shows promise as a creative tool, while effective ad trends include…
Year of the dragon: We have entered the AI age
February 12, 2024
If you were hoping that the world would get over AI fever in 2024, you are going to be sadly mistaken. Advancements in hardware and software (everywhere) are opening up the floodgates to dynamic applications of generative AI that suggest that 2023 was the year where we only really began to scratch the surface.
This year — the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese Zodiac — will see a…
