Futureverse, an AI and metaverse technology and content company, has raised $54 million in a new round of funding in an effort to marry AI and the metaverse.
10T Holdings led the round and included participation from Ripple. Futureverse‘s technology platform includes a suite of proprietary AI content generation tools designed to enhance the music, objects, characters, and animations that will…
How iGenius’s GPT for numbers is evolving language models to give enterprise data a voice
July 18, 2023
Uljan Sharka, founder and CEO of iGenius, has spent the last seven years working on language models and generative AI. To this point, it’s been all about the technology, from the size of the model to how much training data it uses to inference times. And what he’s…
Another day in the year 2023, another big-time AI partnership is announced: This time it is Cohere, the white-hot Canadian generative AI startup focused on building enterprise-grade large language models (LLMs) and tools, and McKinsey, the 97-year-old global consulting firm…
This fall, U.S. Senators will be going back to school — with a crash course in AI that will include at least nine forums with top experts on copyright, workforce issues, national security, high risk AI models, existential risks, privacy, transparency and explainability, and elections and democracy.
At a TechNYC event held at IBM’s New York City headquarters yesterday afternoon, Senate Majority…
Fable, a San Francisco startup running a big project dubbed The Simulation, has released Showrunner AI technology, dubbed SHOW-1, which can generate new episodes of TV shows with you as the star.
It’s another big step for generative AI, which has been on a tear for the…
Lenovo has announced its latest data management innovation, launching the ThinkSystem DG Enterprise Storage Arrays and ThinkSystem DM3010H Enterprise Storage Arrays. These all-flash arrays are designed to simplify AI workload enablement and unleash the value of data.
The…
TikTok rolls out passkey login for iOS devices
July 18, 2023
The list of third-party apps that support passkey login on the iPhone has grown by one, thanks to TikTok. Users of the popular video-sharing service will now have the option to sign in with their passkey associated with their Apple ID, which means they can easily get into their account using Face or Touch ID. Passkeys are considered a safer option than password logins, since they’re…
With the rapid developments in generative AI today, what should your business be focusing on? This week, VentureBeat Transform featured incredible lessons from practitioners and vendors in data and AI, and next week the MIT CDO Symposium will be full of insights from the…
How AI can improve the future of incident response
July 18, 2023
Cybersecurity software providers must step up their efforts to deliver self-healing software and solutions, according to Adam Zoller, CISO for healthcare leader Providence. Speaking at VentureBeat Transform 2023 last week, Zoller pointed out that there is white space in the…
A shock absorber every business needs today is to gain new insights that are hidden in real-time supply chain data. Companies can capitalize on these insights to make their supply chains more resilient. And the more resilient the supply chain, the greater a company’s ability to absorb unpredictable disruptions.
FedEx is on a mission to help its customers absorb supply-chain and market shocks…
