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• 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.

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• 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.

• July 11, 2024 11 Jul'24

  Microsoft, Google make moves amid regulators' AI scrutiny

  Microsoft is withdrawing stepping down from the OpenAI board. Google has reportedly disbanded its machine learning privacy team. Both vendors face investigations.

• July 11, 2024 11 Jul'24

  Moving GenAI from proof of concept to production on AWS

  A prevailing critique of generative AI tools is that they can't be put into practice. However, some organizations now use vendor tools to produce capabilities for their clients.

• July 10, 2024 10 Jul'24

  AWS intros GenAI app studio, updates Amazon Q and Bedrock

  The cloud provider introduced new features that help enterprises create applications faster, while still applying responsible practices. It also unveiled new educational resources.

• July 01, 2024 01 Jul'24

  SK Hynix's $75B investment in AI chips shows a growing trend

  The South Korea-based chipmaker responds to the growing demand for AI memory chips with a big investment through 2028. Meanwhile, memory chipmakers step up production.

• July 01, 2024 01 Jul'24

  Walmart uses GenAI for payroll, employee digital experience

  The retail powerhouse is providing its associates with generative AI tools to use to automate parts of their job. The company is also using the technology to spot payroll problems.

• June 27, 2024 27 Jun'24

  Google targets GenAI accuracy, speed, size, efficiency

  The tech giant advances again in the generative AI competition that has rocked the tech industry over the last two years, with key updates to its Gemini and Imagen models.

• June 24, 2024 24 Jun'24

  Rockset acquisition strengthens OpenAI's enterprise play

  The GenAI pioneer went outside the AI realm for its second acquisition, looking to the smaller database analytics vendor for its real-time search and vector capabilities.

• June 20, 2024 20 Jun'24

  Arista, Cisco, HPE answer AI infrastructure demand

  Arista, Cisco and HPE are racing to seize a share of the promising GenAI infrastructure market. Cisco and HPE have computing, networking and software; Arista focuses on networking.

• June 17, 2024 17 Jun'24

  Lenovo stakes claim to generative AI at the edge

  The laptop, PC and mobile phone vendor pursues its 'pocket to cloud' strategy, claiming device-native generative AI is more secure, private and economical.

• June 14, 2024 14 Jun'24

  LinkedIn unveils AI updates for business users, job seekers

  New features for job applicants, recruiters and businesses include personalized writing suggestions, more advanced search capabilities and AI conversations within LinkedIn Learning.

• June 10, 2024 10 Jun'24

  Apple Intelligence GenAI, ChatGPT to boost Siri on iPhone, Mac

  The consumer electronics giant finally made its long-anticipated move into generative AI, emphasizing privacy. But most features will only be available on the newest iPhones.

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  AMD, Intel and Nvidia's latest moves in the AI PC chip race

  Major chip makers used Computex 2024 to launch their aggressive AI chip strategies and stake a claim in the burgeoning AI PC market.

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Vendors struggle to prevent GenAI use in child sexual abuse

  Major large language model and image generation system vendors agree to work on limiting the ability of GenAI technology to create and spread child sexual abuse material.

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Intel launches Xeon 6 for AI data centers

  This month, Intel will launch the first of its Xeon 6 data center silicon that offers two microarchitectures, one for performance and the other for power efficiency.

• June 03, 2024 03 Jun'24

  The importance of open source in GenAI

  Lightning AI, the creator of PyTorch Lightning, was a pioneer of open source technology. The vendor has built on many platforms, but CTO Luca Antiga doesn't see one as best.

• May 28, 2024 28 May'24

  Experts: AI digital humans come with benefits -- and risks

  Businesses using AI digital humans in sales and marketing can cut costs through efficiency. However, experts warn of the legal risks and public distrust of the technology.

• May 23, 2024 23 May'24

  AI companies losing public trust in safety

  Researchers find that more than half of Americans polled believe AI companies aren't considering ethics when developing the technology, and nearly 90% favor government regulations.

• May 22, 2024 22 May'24

  At IBM Think, IT leaders pitch GenAI upskilling for all

  IT leaders at IBM Think 2024 say training employees and establishing policies for generative AI adoption are core parts of a strategy to avoid financial and legal hurdles.

• May 22, 2024 22 May'24

  New IBM Watsonx GenAI focuses on enterprises, governance

  The veteran tech giant, with deep roots in AI, bases its new AI strategy on open source, multimodel support and helping businesses modernize their code and IT operations.

• May 21, 2024 21 May'24

  IBM moves ahead with open source, multi-model AI strategy

  The 113-year-old tech giant expanded its open source, open ecosystem, multi-model approach with support for more models and updates to its Watsonx generative AI assistants.

• May 20, 2024 20 May'24

  A vision of an AI future that might not include humans

  Artificial intelligence is moving so quickly that it has already become part of daily life. In the not-too-far-off future, some think it could supplant human civilization.

• May 17, 2024 17 May'24

  Balancing generative AI cybersecurity risks and rewards

  At the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, enterprise leaders grappled with AI's benefits and risks, emphasizing the need for cross-team collaboration, security controls and responsible AI.

• May 16, 2024 16 May'24

  Insights on generative AI for automation vs. augmentation

  At the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, industry leaders shared experiences with generative AI's benefits and challenges, highlighting the technology's ability to assist human workers.

• May 14, 2024 14 May'24

  Google Gemini generative AI hits all products, including Search

  The tech giant made its Gemini GenAI model more powerful and rolled out new Gemini-powered products for enterprises and consumers.

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  OpenAI advances LLM with GPT-4o; Google Gemini update looms

  The GenAI giant is out with a faster, more interactive version of its GPT-4 LLM for enterprises, and new, higher speed features for the consumer-focused ChatGPT Free.

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  OpenAI deepfake detector 'belated but welcome'

  The GenAI vendor's image-identifying tool has been warmly received, though some say it's belated, with elections around the world this year. The vendor also joined C2PA.

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  IBM throws its Red Hat into open source AI ring with RHEL AI

  IBM and Red Hat open source their first LLMs, but IT experts say RHEL AI is more likely to stand out in the ways it links AI to hybrid cloud infrastructure.

• May 06, 2024 06 May'24

  Salesforce open model AI strategy aims for trust, automation

  The CRM and CX giant is leaning on generative AI for sales and customer service applications and is aiming to ensure that users can trust the output of large language models.

• April 30, 2024 30 Apr'24

  Musicians balance compensation rights with GenAI innovation

  While musicians have long used AI technology, GenAI is a new threat to their livelihoods. An effort has emerged to compensate artists whose work GenAI systems are trained on.

• April 30, 2024 30 Apr'24

  Amazon Q GenAI assistant out for developers, AWS users

  The GenAI tools augment coders and let users query and control their AWS console and data. A new feature in preview lets business users create apps using natural language.

• April 25, 2024 25 Apr'24

  Microsoft's new Phi-3-mini AI language model runs on iPhone

  Microsoft researchers contend the Phi-3-mini's performance is on par with the much larger ChatGPT 3.5 model and can run on an iPhone 14 powered by an A16 Bionic chip.

• April 23, 2024 23 Apr'24

  AWS boosts Amazon Bedrock GenAI platform, upgrades Titan LLM

  The cloud giant buttressed its GenAI platform with features to import, select and build safety guardrails for third-party LLMs from Meta, Cohere, Mistral and others more easily.

• April 22, 2024 22 Apr'24

  Examining developers' perception of AI tools

  At GitHub and for many coders, AI technology can shoulder some of the cognitive burden. However, inaccuracies that come with the tools can be hard for some.

• April 19, 2024 19 Apr'24

  Businesses confront reality of generative AI in finance

  As large language models move from pilot projects to full-scale deployment in finance, the industry is facing a mixture of compliance and technological challenges in 2024.

• April 18, 2024 18 Apr'24

  Meta releases two Llama 3 models, more to come

  The social media giant's new open source LLM is telling of the challenges in the open source market and its future ambitions involving multimodal and multilingual capabilities.

• April 17, 2024 17 Apr'24

  Lawmakers concerned about deepfake AI's election impact

  Lawmakers want Congress to intervene and tackle AI manipulations that could affect U.S. elections. However, legislation has yet to advance to the House or Senate floor.

• April 17, 2024 17 Apr'24

  Looking closer at Microsoft's investment in UAE AI vendor G42

  The tech giant will own a minor stake, and G42's LLM will be on Azure. The move helps the cloud provider expand globally and helps the U.S. court the UAE away from China.

• April 15, 2024 15 Apr'24

  Adobe working to offer GenAI tools from OpenAI and others

  The creative content software vendor previewed new video workflow tools in its video editing suite that let editors use video-generating tools from OpenAI and others.

• April 15, 2024 15 Apr'24

  Google Cloud customers disclose GenAI strengths, weaknesses

  Troubling flaws remain a problem for enterprises, but Google Cloud customers, including Ford, Belk and Deutsche Bank, find the tech too compelling to pass up.

• April 11, 2024 11 Apr'24

  Meta's new silicon shows a growing trend for AI hyperscalers

  The new hardware highlights a growing trend of hyperscalers designing custom chips for internal use. This move will help vendors rely less on hardware providers such as Nvidia.

• April 10, 2024 10 Apr'24

  How Intel's new AI Gaudi 3 chip compares with Nvidia chips

  The new chip matches the Nvidia H100 but lacks in performance compared with the Nvidia Blackwell. The vendor also introduced new edge computing offerings.

• April 09, 2024 09 Apr'24

  Google's updates in Vertex AI, Imagen 2 support GenAI apps

  The cloud provider introduced updates to Vertex AI. It revealed its LLM family Gemini is now available in Vertex. Its image generating tool also has new capabilities.