Creative software giant Adobe has been walking a bit of a tightrope when it comes to generative AI: while it has embraced the technology to release a host of new features for its users, such as the well-received Generative Fill in Photoshop and Firefly text-to-image generator (both unveiled in spring 2023), it has faced criticism from some contributors to its Adobe Stock image service, who say the…
The acceleration of technological change is evident everywhere, and it’s benefiting games in unseen ways. In 2016, King had only 2,000 levels for Candy Crush Saga.
As the publisher King turns 20, there are now 15,000 levels for Candy Crush Saga, which has helped the…
The second annual HOLL·AI·WOOD AI Film and AI Games Festival took place in San Francisco on Tuesday night and offered us a preview of the future for both passive and interactive entertainment.
Edward Saatchi, CEO of Fable Studios and an organizer of the event, said more…
Customer insights platform Pathlight plans to rely on AI agents to extract strategic insights from large amounts of customer conversations in a way no human could manage alone, it announced this week. However, bringing this ambitious agent-powered vision to life posed technical challenges that required the Palo Alto based company to build custom infrastructure from the ground up.
In an exclusive…
As Meta, Character AI place bets on ‘fun’ chatbots, problems lurk behind AI-generated smiles
October 12, 2023
In a new Forbes report, high-flying AI chatbot startup Character AI, which is rumored to be in early funding talks at a whopping $5 billion valuation, is bringing its conversational characters to a new group chat function that allows users to talk to their favorite celebs…
Ottawa, Ontario (CAN)-based AI governance firm NuEnergy.ai has secured a U.S. patent on its Machine Trust Index (MTI) methodology, a standardized measurement for artificial intelligence (AI) oversight.
The milestone comes as competition intensifies in the complex, quickly…
Few technology vendors have as broad an enterprise software portfolio as OpenText, and it’s a portfolio that is now being broadly enabled with generative AI capabilities.
The new OpenText Aviator effort is launching today as a set of AI capabilities in the OpenText Cloud Editions (CE) 23.4 release. OpenText’s expansive portfolio includes enterprise content management, IT operations…
The open-source alternatives to GPT-4 Vision are coming
October 12, 2023
The landscape of generative artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly with the advent of large multimodal models (LMM). These models are transforming the way we interact with AI systems, allowing us to use both images and text as input. OpenAI’s GPT-4 Vision is a leading…
MIT spinoff JetCool Technologies, a Department of Energy-backed startup working on a direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology for enterprise data centers, today announced $17 million in a series A round of funding, led by Bosch Ventures.
The investment, which also saw…
Replit brings open source AI developer tools to all users
October 12, 2023
Developer tooling vendor Replit is out this week with a series of new efforts designed to help bring AI for all developers.
Replit’s cloud software development platform is widely used with the company claiming to have over 20 million users. Over the course of the last year, Replit has been incrementally building out generative AI capabilities for its users, with the GhostWriter AI code…
