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• January 14, 2025 14 Jan'25

  OpenAI faces backlash for its Economic Blueprint for U.S.

  The document lays out steps for the future regarding AI technology. Some call the move self-serving and another piece of the vendor's strategy to win the AI race.

• January 14, 2025 14 Jan'25

  Nvidia partners with Mayo Clinic, others on healthcare AI

  Nvidia, Mayo Clinic and Illumina team up to enhance AI in healthcare and life sciences, using advanced models, GPU technologies and cloud-native platforms.

• January 14, 2025 14 Jan'25

  Box content management generative AI route is model-agnostic

  The cloud content management vendor looks to external GenAI providers.

• January 13, 2025 13 Jan'25

  Adobe launches new GenAI Firefly tool for retailers

  The tool enables users to resize marketing campaigns for new products. While it saves time for large retailers, it's unclear whether medium-sized or small retailers will find it valuable.

• January 10, 2025 10 Jan'25

  AI PC sales slow amid high costs, limited software

  AI PC sales are lagging, despite an uptick in overall PC shipments. The lack of compelling use cases and high prices are hampering upgrades.

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• January 10, 2025 10 Jan'25

  Cohere makes enterprise play with AI workspace platform

  The startup is evolving into an enterprise platform provider. Its success depends on strategy and its ability to clearly define what its platform does.

• January 08, 2025 08 Jan'25

  Implications of Apple AI generating false news summaries

  The hallucinations show a deeper issue with generative technology and provide an opportunity for publishers to guide tech companies into refining their models and products.

• January 07, 2025 07 Jan'25

  Intel expands Core Ultra AI chips amidst market competition

  PCs with Intel's new Core Ultra AI chips for gamers will hit the market starting in February. Previous Core Ultra releases targeted business PCs and the edge.

• January 07, 2025 07 Jan'25

  Nvidia's new model aims to move GenAI to physical world

  Nvidia Cosmos is trained on hours of videos that focus on the physical world. It works with Nvidia Omniverse and advances LLM technology, the vendor says.

• December 26, 2024 26 Dec'24

  2025 will be the year of AI agents

  2025 could bring more agentic AI developments. Enterprises could embed agents in their workflows. It could also lead to an orchestration infrastructure and better reasoning models.

• December 23, 2024 23 Dec'24

  A look at expectation vs. reality of generative AI in 2024

  Last year, expectations for generative AI for the coming year centered on regulation, open source and multimodality. While some predictions were accurate, others were wrong.

• December 20, 2024 20 Dec'24

  The year in AI: Catch up on the top AI news of 2024

  As the new year approaches, the pace of AI development shows no signs of letting up. Get up to speed for 2025 by catching up on TechTarget Editorial's top AI news stories from 2024.

• December 18, 2024 18 Dec'24

  Enterprises shift to on-premises AI to control costs

  In 2025, many companies will shift to on-premises AI to cut cloud costs that can easily reach $1 million a month for large enterprises.

• December 18, 2024 18 Dec'24

  Google's Veo 2 is technically advanced, but concerns remain

  The new version can generate videos up to two minutes long. It seems better than OpenAI and Adobe's video generator. However, it might not be safe for commercial use.

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  Writer launches new Palmyra Creative LLM

  Many generative AI models tend to have similar outputs. Palmyra Creative aims to mix things up while helping users brainstorm ways to improve their content.

• December 16, 2024 16 Dec'24

  Google aims to boost productivity with AI Agent tool

  Agentspace uses the power of Gemini and Google's search technology to help employees reduce the number of hours spent searching for documents internally.

• December 12, 2024 12 Dec'24

  The evolution of generative AI for the artist

  At the start of the hype era of image-generating tools like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, many feared creatives would lose their jobs. Two years later, things are different.

• December 11, 2024 11 Dec'24

  How AI agents are the next wave of generative technology

  As agentic technology grows more popular, some are optimistic about what appears to be the next phase of AI. However, there are concerns about the tasks agents are doing.

• December 11, 2024 11 Dec'24

  Reddit, OpenAI challenge Google with new releases

  The social news platform introduced a new AI search tool for users that will push users directly to its platform. Meanwhile, the ChatGPT maker's Sora rivals Veo.

• December 10, 2024 10 Dec'24

  Moveworks uses AI to grow its employee automation platform

  The vendor started in 2019 with the early Google BERT language model. It later used GPT-2 for synthetic data generation. Now, it provides agentic AI-building capabilities.

• December 06, 2024 06 Dec'24

  JPMorganChase, NFL, Georgia-Pacific share GenAI ups, downs

  Enterprises share how they've used GenAI to transform operations, boost revenue, and find new opportunities.

• December 06, 2024 06 Dec'24

  OpenAI targets knowledge workers with pricy ChatGPT Pro

  The new 'pro' subscription offers access to many of the vendor's top GenAI models.

• December 05, 2024 05 Dec'24

  Businesses face uncertainty with U.S. AI regulation in 2025

  An uncertain future for U.S. AI regulation doesn't mean business leaders are backing down from AI governance.

• December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24

  AWS intros new foundation model line and tools for Bedrock

  The cloud provider launched Nova, a new family of generative AI models available on Amazon Bedrock. It also tackled some problems with generative AI, such as hallucinations.

• December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24

  Google makes video model Veo available on Vertex AI

  It's unclear how well the tech giant's generative AI imaging system will compete against Adobe's.

• November 27, 2024 27 Nov'24

  Anthropic's new standard raises AI privacy, other concerns

  The Model Context Protocol helps developers connect data to assistants. Some have concerns about users' data and whether a single vendor should create such a standard.

• November 26, 2024 26 Nov'24

  Oracle generative AI approach based on Cohere, Meta models

  The tech giant has infused its various SaaS applications and databases with GenAI technology and has developed an arsenal of autonomous AI agents.

• November 22, 2024 22 Nov'24

  Amazon invests additional $4 billion in Anthropic

  The cloud provider will be the primary training partner for the generative AI vendor. The LLM maker will also train all its models on Trainium and Inferentia.

• November 21, 2024 21 Nov'24

  Nvidia Blackwell GPU production ramps up amid revenue surge

  Nvidia's Blackwell GPU production is 'full steam' ahead as revenue surges with AI demand.

• November 20, 2024 20 Nov'24

  Meta aims at enterprises with hire of ex-Salesforce AI exec

  The social media giant has found success with its Llama family of GenAI models. The new hire shows it is targeting enterprise products.

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  Microsoft intros Azure AI Foundry for building AI apps

  The new rebranded platform lets enterprises build generative AI applications and agents.

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  AMD layoffs follow AI job trend

  AMD joins other tech companies in using layoffs to make room for AI talent.

• November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24

  DataRobot aims to tackle GenAI problem with enterprise suite

  The AI and machine learning vendor's new platform provides customizable applications and agents to help enterprises profit from their GenAI investment.

• November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24

  Google Learn About AI tool could fail to hit the target

  While the new tool is geared toward professors, students and researchers, it may still fail to stand up to popular chatbots like ChatGPT. The tool also remains prone to hallucinations.

• November 12, 2024 12 Nov'24

  Creating a clean generative AI data set with Getty Images

  The clean data set contains no images of brands, celebrities and well-known figures such as presidential candidates, and includes a license for each image.

• November 08, 2024 08 Nov'24

  What the election of former President Trump means for AI

  Once in power, Donald Trump will likely cut or dilute the Biden administration's executive order on AI. Trump's relationship with Elon Musk could also affect technology policy.

• November 07, 2024 07 Nov'24

  AI industry could see regulation rollback under Trump

  AI businesses are expected to enjoy deregulation under the new Republican presidential administration.

• November 01, 2024 01 Nov'24

  OpenAI aims at a new market with ChatGPT search

  OpenAI introduces new capability in its AI Chatbot. While the vendor has gained favor and popularity with its chatbot, it has had problems maintaining the trust of users.

• October 29, 2024 29 Oct'24

  Meta joins others reinventing search with AI

  The social media giant has joined other vendors that are trying to reinvent search after the popularization of ChatGPT. The vendors want to challenge Google's position.

• October 29, 2024 29 Oct'24

  The causes of disillusionment with GenAI

  The market has seen virtually unprecedented growth. However, enterprises lack confidence in what the technology can do. Nevertheless, enterprises still want to use it.

• October 29, 2024 29 Oct'24

  Exploring the role of AI in beauty and haircare

  Myavana uses machine learning to recommend products to Black women. The service is valuable to enterprises that can take use of the breadth of data the vendor has on Black hair.

• October 22, 2024 22 Oct'24

  Anthropic adds computer use AI tool to Claude

  The startup said computer use can let developers automate repetitive tasks, scroll, move a cursor, click buttons and type texts. The function can also help with AI agents.

• October 21, 2024 21 Oct'24

  IBM launches new generation Granite language model

  The vendor takes an open source approach with Granite 3.0. It trained the new model family with Nvidia H100 GPUs. Not all enterprises will be convinced to use the new AI models.

• October 18, 2024 18 Oct'24

  Mistral's new small AI models target phones, laptops

  The models are reflective of the trend toward small language models built to run on edge devices. However, it might be hard for the startup to compete.

• October 17, 2024 17 Oct'24

  The NYT's cease and desist move against Perplexity AI

  The AI startup is facing accusations it took content from a publisher without permission. This is the second time the NYT has gone after a vendor for misappropriating its content.

• October 16, 2024 16 Oct'24

  AI vendors tackle generative AI attacks in 2024 election

  Some AI vendors have tried to prevent bad actors from using their models and platforms against candidates. Others are reactive in trying to stop or disrupt misinformation.

• October 15, 2024 15 Oct'24

  Adobe makes generative AI video model safe for enterprises

  The new video model is trained on licensed content, appealing to enterprises that are worried about the security and legal implications of generative AI technology.

• October 15, 2024 15 Oct'24

  Closing the gap between open source and closed AI models

  More enterprises are fine-tuning open models from vendors including Meta, xAI and Mistral AI. This has led startups like Together AI to see this is the future.

• October 09, 2024 09 Oct'24

  Government use of AI by key U.S. military branches

  The Air Force and Army are exploring applications of GenAI including using their own large language models. While some use cases are successful, others are not.

• October 04, 2024 04 Oct'24

  Google updates Search with more generative AI features

  The cloud and search giant now has ads in AI Overviews and updates for consumer products, such as the ability to ask questions and use video with Google Lens.

• October 04, 2024 04 Oct'24

  Walmart, SF 49ers share generative AI experiences

  The retail giant and the NFL team joined other organizations at the Enterprise Connect AI conference to discuss lessons learned from deploying the technology.

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  Lessons on AI-driven marketing at EmTech MIT 2024

  In addition to generating personalized advertising content, marketing professionals are using large language models as new personas to shape brand perception and strategy.

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  OpenAI shows developers what is possible with speech tool

  The AI vendor introduced four new offerings for enterprises. Its Realtime API is notable for its speech-to-speech capability. Meanwhile, the startup is growing explosively.

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  Enterprise adoption of generative AI is accelerating

  More enterprises are using generative AI. There is no consensus on the best use case or if open or closed models work better. Organizations that used AI before ChatGPT are ahead.

• September 26, 2024 26 Sep'24

  OpenAI restructure move unsurprising, but raises concerns

  The for-profit organization will lead to more freedom for the organization and its investors. However, it could cause enterprises to question if the vendor is committed to safe AI.

• September 25, 2024 25 Sep'24

  Microsoft introduces new safety tools for generative AI

  The cloud giant introduced tools that cite sources in Copilot, curb hallucination and protect privacy. They show ways the vendor has learned from previous challenges.

• September 25, 2024 25 Sep'24

  Intel rolls out AI chips amid financial turmoil

  Intel ships AI chips Xeon 6 and Gaudi 3 while analysts ponder how the company's severe cash shortage will transform its business over the next several years.

• September 25, 2024 25 Sep'24

  Allen Institute for AI launches open multimodal models

  Ai2's multimodal generative AI models can understand visual data. Molmo comes in different sizes: Molmo 72B, Molmo 7B-D, Molmo 7B-O and Molmo E-1B.

• September 23, 2024 23 Sep'24

  AI drives data center, energy race by Microsoft, others

  Microsoft's latest moves to secure electricity and more data centers tackle two problems faced by major cloud providers: insufficient power and space to meet AI demands.

• September 20, 2024 20 Sep'24

  Amazon offers new generative AI tool for e-commerce sellers

  Project Amelia is a selling expert that provides sellers with answers to questions. It makes use of broad knowledge and will soon provide answers to complex problems.

• September 16, 2024 16 Sep'24

  New Microsoft Copilot 365 Wave 2 includes agents and Pages

  The tools include an agent for building automated business processes and Pages for editing AI-generated material. While the tools provide more context, they present some challenges.

• September 16, 2024 16 Sep'24

  Google's head of product on generative AI strategy

  The cloud, search and AI giant has seen its fortunes rise and fall during the rise of GenAI technology. Its strategy has been to provide choices while aiming to stay ahead.

• September 12, 2024 12 Sep'24

  OpenAI releases new models that provide better reasoning

  While reasoning is a needed move toward workflows based on AI agents, it does not solve the problem of bias in large language models. Good data is a way to mitigate that problem.

• September 11, 2024 11 Sep'24

  Oracle launches over 50 AI Agents for business use

  The new agents will automate business processes. The agents show the growth in generative AI and move the market beyond the chatbot use case into a work assistant application.

• September 10, 2024 10 Sep'24

  SambaNova Systems intros AI inference platform

  The new platform runs Llama 3.1 405B and, with the vendor's full-stack approach, helps enterprises build agentic applications. It also rivals GPU architectures, the vendor claims.

• September 10, 2024 10 Sep'24

  Oracle makes OCI GenAI Agents with RAG available

  The offering provides RAG capabilities for customers that use Oracle databases. Use cases include legal research, finance and customer service support.

• September 09, 2024 09 Sep'24

  iPhone 16 built around Apple Intelligence AI features

  The consumer electronics giant introduced a new generation of iPhones with generative AI features such as writing tools, summarization and better Siri.

• September 04, 2024 04 Sep'24

  Former OpenAI scientist raises $1B for AI safety venture

  Ilya Sutskever's new company is focused on providing safe artificial general intelligence. While some see a need for it, others find it distracting.

• September 04, 2024 04 Sep'24

  Copilot+ PCs with AMD and Intel silicon show AI PC trends

  The tech giant introduced computers with chips from Intel and AMD. The new machines come amid a refresh cycle for organizations and employees and open prospects for local AI apps.

• September 03, 2024 03 Sep'24

  Generative AI will force diversity in AI systems

  In this podcast episode, David C. Williams, vice president of automation at AT&T, explains why vendors have no choice but to include diversity in their data sets.

• August 29, 2024 29 Aug'24

  IBM's latest Z mainframe offers lessons in building AI systems

  Studying the engineering behind IBM's mainframe architecture could help enterprises build higher reliability into the GPU clusters used to run AI applications.

• August 28, 2024 28 Aug'24

  Cerebras' inference AI tool challenges Nvidia, but faces hurdles

  The hardware vendor says its new inference offering outperforms Nvidia's GPU-based tools. However, Nvidia dominates the market.

• August 28, 2024 28 Aug'24

  Google leader dives deep into AI agents

  A technology fueled by generative AI is growing. Vendors like Google are providing products to help enterprises create their own agents. However, there are concerns.

• August 27, 2024 27 Aug'24

  Nvidia launches NIM Agent Blueprints to speed AI use

  Nvidia introduced new microservice that helps enterprise developers deploy GenAI applications. It also introduced three Blueprints for different use cases.

• August 21, 2024 21 Aug'24

  OpenAI-Condé Nast searchGPT deal addresses copyright concerns

  The AI vendor continues to expand its SearchGPT prototype by partnering with news publisher Condé Nast. It also introduced fine-tuning for its latest model.

• August 19, 2024 19 Aug'24

  Generative AI fuels growth of online deepfakes

  As generative AI systems and voice cloning apps grow, organizations are seeing a rise in fraudulent calls. Organizations need to be vigilant and plan to deal with these threats.

• August 15, 2024 15 Aug'24

  New deepfake audio detector released as U.S. election nears

  The tool can identify AI-generated speech. The release follows wide circulation of deepfakes of vice president Kamala Harris and X owner Elon Musk.

• August 14, 2024 14 Aug'24

  Grok-2 intro leads to questions about xAI model openness

  The new versions of the model appear to be on par with models from Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic, but the vendor has not released technical details or restricted its image generator.

• August 13, 2024 13 Aug'24

  Dataiku expands LLM Mesh with governance layer

  The vendor provides a marketplace for enterprises similar to those of the major cloud providers. However, it does not have its own LLM, but offers many others in its marketplace.

• August 12, 2024 12 Aug'24

  Startup aims to upend old-school RPA with large action model

  With its GenAI-based platform, Orby AI aims to provide enterprises with generative process automation and AI agents to automate a range of business workflows.

• August 07, 2024 07 Aug'24

  The dangers of voice deepfakes in the November election

  The growth of generative AI has led to more audio cloning technology. This could affect the U.S. election. Recent incidents show that existing safeguards are not effective.

• August 05, 2024 05 Aug'24

  AI inference startup Groq raises $640M

  The startup develops language processing units and sells them as a service. While the vendor must deal with market giant Nvidia, it has an opportunity to stay competitive.

• August 05, 2024 05 Aug'24

  What new AI search features in Chrome mean for users

  The features bring Google Lens to the desktop, and help users rediscover their search history and compare products on a single tab. They are useful for consumers and enterprises.

• August 05, 2024 05 Aug'24

  Examining the tech stances of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump

  Harris has been close to the tech and AI community in her home state of California but is markedly more pro-regulation than Trump. The candidates are vying for tech and AI support.

• August 01, 2024 01 Aug'24

  Enterprises struggle to find business value with GenAI

  Enterprises chase an impractical immediate payback from GenAI and miss opportunities to use less expensive machine learning to solve problems, experts say.

• July 31, 2024 31 Jul'24

  Perplexity AI revenue share model appeases publishers

  Publishers earn a share of the startup's revenue when their work is referenced. They also have access to the vendor's LLM API and developer support. But writers are not included.

• July 30, 2024 30 Jul'24

  Nvidia targets metaverse with OpenUSD NIM microservices

  The vendor introduces new generative AI models that will be available as microservices. The new models show that the metaverse is still a part of Nvidia's strategy.

• July 30, 2024 30 Jul'24

  Apple gives developers access to iOS 18 with AI, new Siri

  The beta release includes AI-generated summaries for apps like mail, messages and voicemail. It does not include the ChatGPT integration or Image Playground.

• July 29, 2024 29 Jul'24

  A year in review with the Targeting AI podcast

  The show explored diverse angles on generative and mainstream AI technology. It delved into regulation, ethics, startups and trends with vendors, AI users, developers and thinkers.

• July 26, 2024 26 Jul'24

  OpenAI takes on Google with new SearchGPT prototype

  The AI engine will provide users with information from the web. The AI vendor is working with publishers such as Newsmax. It will incorporate some features in ChatGPT.

• July 25, 2024 25 Jul'24

  Noom CEO on the need for AI in wellness and health

  CEO Geoff Cook discusses the benefits of AI in the wellness industry, the need for humans and the possibility of AI technology in remedying the doctor shortage.

• July 24, 2024 24 Jul'24

  Google intros Mistral Codestral as a service on Vertex AI

  The cloud provider differentiates its GenAI stance by offering the code-generating LLM as a service on the Vertex AI Model Garden, along with Mistral Large 2.

• July 23, 2024 23 Jul'24

  Meta intros its biggest open source AI model: Llama 3.1 405B

  The model is the biggest open source model yet, the tech giant claims. The social media company also upgraded its model context window to 128k and updated its AI assistant.

• July 19, 2024 19 Jul'24

  OpenAI goes small with GPT-4o mini

  The AI vendor launched a small language model that is priced at 15 cents per million input tokens. It also introduced new compliance tools for ChatGPT Enterprise users.

• July 19, 2024 19 Jul'24

  Enterprises chasing AI confront a harsh reality

  Recent reports from KPMG, McKinsey & Co. and Goldman Sachs indicate that generative AI is immature and carries a high price tag, with no clear path to ROI.

• July 17, 2024 17 Jul'24

  Google launches Distributed Cloud edge hardware

  The hardware for highly regulated industries runs the Google Cloud infrastructure stack, data security services and the Vertex AI platform for running pretrained AI models.

• July 17, 2024 17 Jul'24

  Anthropic catches up with Claude LLM for Android

  The AI vendor introduced the new app soon after releasing the iOS version. It's free for Team and Pro users. It includes vision, multi-platform support and multilingual processing.

• July 17, 2024 17 Jul'24

  LexisNexis launches commercial version of AI research tool

  Nexis+AI enables users to research and analyze news, summarize documents and create first drafts. The platform is built on GPT from Microsoft Azure and Anthropic Claude from AWS.

• July 17, 2024 17 Jul'24

  New C3 AI application aims to help government apply GenAI

  The application will help contact centers find information about health benefits and real estate. The vendor introduced the new application with Google Cloud.

• July 15, 2024 15 Jul'24

  AWS GenAI strategy based on multimodel ecosystem plus Q

  While offering its own large language models and AI chips, the tech giant gives customers access to other vendors' generative models, including open models.