Kicking off a kind of CES in October, Samsung Electronics showcased new SmartThings appliance connectivity features and an updated Samsung Knox Matrix, emphasizing sustainability and security. It’s also adding more AI capability to its products.
Samsung’s vision of the connected home revolves around SmartThings and open innovation. With the integration of the Matter standard, the number of…
San Mateo-based Observe, a startup working to accelerate application troubleshooting and incident resolution with a unified observability cloud, today announced it has raised $50 million in series A3 debt financing, led by Sutter Hill Ventures. The company also debuted the…
Text-to-text large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Meta’s Llama 2, Anthropic’s Claude 2 have been at the center of the current AI gold rush in Silicon Valley and the wider enterprise tech world — but by and large, all of them share some of the same…
Reka, the AI startup founded by researchers from DeepMind, Google, Baidu and Meta, has announced Yasa-1, a multimodal AI assistant that goes beyond text to understand images, short videos and audio snippets.
Available in private preview, Yasa-1 can be customized on private datasets of any modality, allowing enterprises to build new experiences for a myriad of use cases. The assistant supports 20…
Canva, the Australian online graphic design and multimedia company whose web-based platform is used by numerous media organizations worldwide to create graphics and multimedia (including VentureBeat), is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a sweeping update of numerous AI…
Dell customizes GenAI and focuses on data lakehouse
October 5, 2023
Dell Technologies is growing its portfolio of generative AI products and services to help more of its customers harness the power of artificial intelligence.
Today Dell announced a series of initiatives that expand on the company’s generative AI efforts that it has been…
Google Assistant gets generative AI upgrade with Bard
October 5, 2023
Google has announced a new personal assistant that aims to make conversations with artificial inteligence more natural, intuitive, and useful. Assistant with Bard, which is powered by generative AI, combines the capabilities of Google’s existing voice assistant with Bard, a large language model that can generate and reason with text, voice, and images.
Assistant with Bard is still an early…
Meta’s AI stickers are here and already causing controversy
October 5, 2023
Well, that didn’t take long: Just a week after Meta announced a “universe of AI” for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, the company’s new AI-generated stickers are already causing controversy.
Some users have already received an update allowing them to quickly create…
Whether or not you subscribe to the “butterfly effect” — coined by meteorologist Edward Lorenz in 1961, the theorem states that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil could, through a chain of various interlinked meteorological events, ultimately cause a tornado in…
Microsoft’s AutoGen framework allows multiple AI agents to talk to each other and complete your tasks
October 4, 2023
Microsoft has joined the race for large language model (LLM) application frameworks with its open source Python library, AutoGen.
As described by Microsoft, AutoGen is “a framework for simplifying the orchestration, optimization, and automation of LLM workflows.” The fundamental concept behind AutoGen is the creation of “agents,” which are programming modules powered by LLMs such as GPT-4.
