In mid-June, a team of freshwater researchers spent their nights drifting down Alaska’s Yukon River in an area that straddles the Arctic Circle. The hydrologists were using a GPS unit installed on their boat to measure the slope of the river at the same time that the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite passed overhead, collecting its own data on the waterway. The midnight…
ChatGPT Plus gets custom instructions, allowing it to remember how you want it to behave
July 21, 2023
OpenAI today unveiled a potentially impactful feature for users for its ChatGPT Plus subscription service ($20/month): custom instructions, a new setting that users can toggle on when logged into their ChatGPT Plus account. The setting allows the AI chatbot to store…
Jam City launches DC Heroes & Villains mobile RPG
July 20, 2023
Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here.
Jam City has launched DC Heroes & Villains, an action puzzle RPG game that features superheroes and supervillains of the DC universe.
The mobile…
Cleanlab emerges with $5 million to automate data curation for LLMs and the modern AI stack
July 20, 2023
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…
Cerebras Systems, the AI accelerator pioneer, and UAE-based technology holding group G42, have unveiled the world’s largest supercomputer for AI training, named Condor Galaxy.
The network of nine interconnected supercomputers promises to reduce AI model training time…
PlusMusic.ai uses AI to create in-game soundtracks
July 20, 2023
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…
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…
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.
In recent years many data centers have transitioned from a centralized model to an edge computing approach. This brings computing…
A recent study conducted by open-source AI solutions firm ClearML in partnership with the AI Infrastructure Alliance (AIIA) has shed light on the adoption of generative AI among Fortune 1000 (F-1000) enterprises.
The study, “Enterprise Generative AI Adoption: C-Level…
Apple's MacBook Air M1 is back on sale for $750
July 20, 2023
This is a great moment to get a Mac laptop on a budget, particularly if you’re heading back to school. Amazon has the MacBook Air M1 with 256GB of storage on sale for a record low of $750, or $249 off. That’s the same price we saw on Prime Day, and applies regardless of color.
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