What if artificial intelligence one day surpassed the intelligence of humans? This “superintelligence” is what OpenAI is anticipating – possibly within this decade – and the company has assembled a new team focused on aligning it with humanity’s best interests. “How do we ensure AI systems much smarter than humans follow human intent?” asks an ...Full article
Palo Alto-based Inflection AI, an OpenAI competitor, announced it has raised $1.3 billion in a funding round led by Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, and new investor Nvidia for a total of $1.525 billion raised. This latest round places the company’s valuation around $4 billion, according to a Reuters report. Inflection AI claims ...Full article
VC billionaire Marc Andreessen says the world is currently “hysterically freaking out” about artificial intelligence, and he recently wrote a 7,000-word essay to address these fears. During the Stratechery podcast, Andreessen told host Ben Thompson that he felt compelled to write “Why AI Will Save the World” because the world had gone hysterical over A.I. ...Full article
Generative AI investment capital continues to flow this week. Runway, a company specializing in AI-powered content creation tools, has announced a $141 million Series C extension from Google, Nvidia, Salesforce Ventures, and others. This extended round builds on a Series C announced in December. Reuters reported the company is now valued at $1.5 billion, according ...Full article
Large Language Models (LLMs) are made of artificial neural networks associated with millions or billions of parameters and trained on massive amounts of data — whether it’s self-supervised learning or semi-supervised learning techniques — to understand and reiterate information. The financial industry has started to leverage these tools for a variety of reasons, including predicting ...Full article
As promised, MLCommons added a large language model (based on GPT-3) to its MLPerf training suite (v3.0) and released the latest round of results yesterday. Only two chips took on the LLM challenge – Nvidia’s H100 GPU and Intel/Habana’s Gaudi2 deep learning processor – each showcasing different strengths. Not surprisingly, the newer H100 was the ...Full article
Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang said that artificial intelligence is ushering in the era of Software 3.0, where creating and running applications will be as simple as writing queries into a universal AI translator, running a few lines of Python code, and selecting an AI model of your choice. "That's the reinvention of the whole stack ...Full article
As companies begin leveraging generative AI to build custom applications, ensuring their data is securely governed during the development process is proving to be tricky. Data entered into foundation LLMs is not secure, as several high-profile leaks have shown. A pop-up now greets ChatGPT users upon login with the admonishment: “Please don't share any sensitive ...Full article
Databricks is the latest company to place a large bet – to the tune of $1.3 billion – on generative AI. On the first day of its sold-out Data + AI Summit, the company announced a definitive agreement for the acquisition of MosaicML, a generative AI startup and OpenAI competitor. MosaicML is the creator of MPT-7B, an ...Full article
By implementing AI carefully and with purpose, enterprises have the opportunity to automate mundane tasks that typically require human cognitive skills, allowing their employees to focus on more strategic business initiatives. Learning to leverage AI will be a necessity for future businesses to remain competitive. There is little question that artificial intelligence will have a ...Full article
As the realm of artificial intelligence expands at a breathtaking pace, organizations around the globe find themselves grappling with a daunting challenge: navigating the vast array of generative AI products and services on offer. This complexity, coupled with the strategic and technical expertise required to leverage these solutions effectively, often leaves businesses feeling overwhelmed and ...Full article
The high-performance computing options are thinning, and HPE is one of the last U.S. companies standing to build supercomputers – a fact indirectly acknowledged by Dan Reed, a professor at the University of Utah, during a keynote at the ISC conference last month. Now, HPE has a new computing option for running HPC-focused machine learning ...Full article
OpenAI is considering launching a new marketplace, according to a report from The Information. This marketplace, similar to an app store, would allow customers to sell their own custom AI models to other businesses, as per two people with knowledge of discussions at the company, as reported by The Information. An OpenAI marketplace would potentially ...Full article
Generative AI solutions like ChatGPT and Bard are both exciting and impressive in their ability to take in enormous datasets and build complex correlations to generate content from just a simple prompt. The massive advances realized by these approaches are an indicator that the field of artificial intelligence is on the verge of a renaissance. ...Full article
Producing quality content for professional videos can be time-consuming and expensive, but advances in AI technology are giving enterprises more options. One company making waves in this space is Synthesia, an AI video generation platform that has just raised $90 million in Series C funding with investment from Nvidia. Synthesia enables enterprises to create instructional ...Full article
European lawmakers have voted overwhelmingly in favor of the landmark AI regulation known as the EU AI Act. While the act does not yet have the force of law, the lopsided vote indicates it soon will in the European Union. Companies would still be free to use AI in the United States, which so far ...Full article
If you have not been lucky enough to find Nvidia’s prized H100 GPU in the cloud or off the shelf, AMD has a challenger waiting in the wings that could be worth considering. AMD announced the new MI300X GPU, which is targeted at AI and scientific computing. The GPU is being positioned as an alternative ...Full article
Zilliz is looking to become the preferred vector database choice for LLM-powered applications through strategic enhancements and a cost-effective new pricing model that now includes a free tier. The company just announced the latest version of Zilliz Cloud, its fully managed vector database service, with new features and enhancements geared toward AI development. Zilliz Cloud ...Full article
In this monthly feature, we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades. Here's the place to read about the movers and shakers, your colleagues, your friends, and maybe yourself. Niels Anderskouv and Tim Stone Semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries (GF) appointed Niels Anderskouv ...Full article
Today, we stand on the precipice of a great transformation. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are fundamentally shifting the way people work, express themselves, as well as how they get business done. These innovations will not only help organizations be agile and serve their customers better, but it will also help secure them ...Full article
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