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• December 18, 2023 18 Dec'23

  2024 will see generative AI mature

  Next year, enterprises will likely be inundated with more capabilities and applications for GenAI. The year will lead to smaller models and regulation in more countries.

• December 15, 2023 15 Dec'23

  Small language models an emerging GenAI force

  Enterprises are unwilling to pay for large language models to accomplish simple business tasks with generative AI. They're looking at cheaper small language models.

• December 14, 2023 14 Dec'23

  Lightning AI's new platform is a one-stop shop for developers

  The platform enables developers to build, train and develop models on the cloud under one web interface without having to switch between different tools and applications.

• December 13, 2023 13 Dec'23

  Google starts incorporating Gemini across AI software stack

  The cloud provider revealed the model's API is now available in Studio and on its Vertex Platform. It also introduced new Duet offerings and a partnership with Mistral.

• December 11, 2023 11 Dec'23

  Big money investments, not acquisitions, fuel GenAI startups

  With the generative AI explosion comes a new trend for the tech giants. Instead of buying smaller companies, big cloud vendors are partnering with the startups.

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• December 08, 2023 08 Dec'23

  Generative AI as a copilot for finance and other sectors

  While many fear that the popularity of large language models could lead to job loss and replacement, some industries such as finance and education are using AI to augment workers.

• December 08, 2023 08 Dec'23

  Fossil's experience building an internal AI image generator

  AI hallucinations are generally considered a bug of the technology to be worked out as it evolves. But uncanny and imaginative AI-generated output can sometimes be a benefit.

• December 07, 2023 07 Dec'23

  How generative AI is changing the fashion industry

  The industry is using AI technology in design and skin care. Some companies are going beyond generative tools, using computer vision and augmented reality.

• December 06, 2023 06 Dec'23

  Google strikes back at OpenAI with Gemini foundation model

  After falling behind, the vendor drew on its AI roots in a bid to outdo OpenAI's GPT with a potent foundation model to inject across its app portfolio and for advanced coding.

• December 05, 2023 05 Dec'23

  IBM, Meta form AI Alliance to promote open AI

  Meta and IBM launched the new group with more than 50 other organizations to foster an open community that helps accelerate the development of responsible AI systems.

• December 04, 2023 04 Dec'23

  AWS customers grapple with generative AI shortfalls

  Enterprises fear failing to accommodate technical immaturity, ensure data security and governance, prevent biases built into models, and correct the erroneous responses of LLMs.

• December 04, 2023 04 Dec'23

  AI-assisted driving here long before autonomous vehicles

  An AI-powered driver assist platform from Nauto helps fleet drivers deliver their goods safely. Using voice commands, the system acts as a real-time coach.

• November 29, 2023 29 Nov'23

  AWS intros new GenAI tools for images and model training

  The tech giant's new image generator produces realistic images while also providing features for editing. SageMaker HyperPod helps reduce training times for foundation models.

• November 28, 2023 28 Nov'23

  AWS unveils new AI chatbot, chips, Nvidia partnership

  The cloud giant's new chatbot is for enterprises looking for more productivity. It is infused into AWS applications for contact centers and business intelligence.

• November 22, 2023 22 Nov'23

  OpenAI reinstates Sam Altman as CEO, but problems remain

  The AI startup reinstated the former CEO after firing him on Nov. 17. The news seems to end a whirlwind of events that highlighted fundamental problems at the vendor.

• November 22, 2023 22 Nov'23

  Possible reasons for Meta disbanding its responsible AI team

  After releasing more generative AI tools this year, the tech giant made a controversial move by dismantling its unit dedicated to responsible AI.

• November 20, 2023 20 Nov'23

  Fallout after Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

  The tech giant snagged a major win by hiring Altman and former board member Greg Brockman. Meanwhile, the AI startup faces challenges with many employees threatening to quit.

• November 20, 2023 20 Nov'23

  Diving into Wayfair's machine learning odyssey

  From starting with using the technology to determine the best marketing mediums to using GenAI tools internally, the online retail giant's AI experience has evolved.

• November 17, 2023 17 Nov'23

  OpenAI board fires CEO Sam Altman for lack of candor

  The 38-year-old helped found the company eight years ago. He has maintained an active public presence and helped the company reach a valuation of about $80 billion.

• November 17, 2023 17 Nov'23

  Enterprises weigh open source generative AI risks, benefits

  At EmTech MIT, experts explored the challenges and benefits of adopting generative AI in the enterprise, including the pros and cons of open source generative AI models.

• November 15, 2023 15 Nov'23

  Microsoft launches custom AI, server chips for Azure

  Maia is for AI inferencing, while the Arm-based Cobalt is for general-purpose computing. The chips could compete with AMD, Nvidia and Intel offerings eventually.

• November 15, 2023 15 Nov'23

  Microsoft expands AI reach with Azure AI studio, genAI tools

  Microsoft's new platform is a studio for building, exploring and testing models. The tech giant is also incorporating Dall-E 3, GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4 Turbo within Azure AI.

• November 14, 2023 14 Nov'23

  Enterprise IT shops more likely to buy GenAI than build it

  GenAI power requirements, the cost of computing and storage, and the high salaries demanded by AI specialists make it unlikely enterprises will take a do-it-yourself approach.

• November 13, 2023 13 Nov'23

  Nvidia intros new H200 for running large AI workloads

  The chipmaker's new GPU has the latest high-bandwidth memory capacity to accelerate generative models and large language models. The chip focuses on optimizing CPUs and GPUs.

• November 09, 2023 09 Nov'23

  DataRobot GenAI features aim to address enterprise concerns

  The AI vendor's new capabilities addresses concerns about the new technology, such as governance, cost and scale. It also helps enterprises bridge two types of AI.

• November 08, 2023 08 Nov'23

  OpenAI's new versions of GPT target more enterprises

  The vendor targets enterprises with new tools and products tailored to what businesses and developers need to incorporate generative AI, including better pricing.

• November 06, 2023 06 Nov'23

  Tech industry reaction to Biden's AI executive order mixed

  While it's the first extensive statement from the U.S. government on governing and promoting AI, it falls short of providing actionable steps to vendors.

• November 03, 2023 03 Nov'23

  AI executive order does not fix need for federal regulation

  The executive order on AI focuses on data privacy, defense and many other areas. While it's seen as comprehensive, many are looking for the U.S. to enact federal legislation.

• October 31, 2023 31 Oct'23

  Domino Data Lab seeks to accelerate generative AI responsibly

  Domino's updated platform helps enterprises move from experimenting with GenAI models to full-on productions. The data science vendor partnered with Nvidia, Meta and Hugging Face.

• October 30, 2023 30 Oct'23

  Data center power constraints send AI everywhere

  Most experts agree there isn't enough unused electricity to perform future AI processing in hyperscale data centers and colocation facilities as GenAI demand soars.

• October 26, 2023 26 Oct'23

  How Amazon AI image generation could help advertisers

  The tech giant joins others using generative AI technology to cater to advertisers and help small businesses scale their advertising through personalization.

• October 25, 2023 25 Oct'23

  Apple's silence on generative AI is characteristic

  The consumer tech company is behind other tech giants in the generative AI race. However, stealth is the company's normal mode of operation with disruptive technologies.

• October 23, 2023 23 Oct'23

  Venture capital firm seeks to help launch early AI startups

  Glasswing Ventures prides itself as being a founder-first company, as it works with startups to help find customers, recruit talent and guide future investments.

• October 19, 2023 19 Oct'23

  Fair use may not help Anthropic against AI music lawsuit

  Universal Music Group and other music publishers allege the vendor's Claude 2 AI model responds to users' prompts with all or most of the lyrics to popular copyrighted songs.

• October 18, 2023 18 Oct'23

  How YouTube's new AI-powered product aids advertisers

  The online video-sharing and social media platform is now using the AI technology as a way to help advertisers place ads on videos that better reach the intended audience.

• October 13, 2023 13 Oct'23

  Google Search Generative Experience AI updated for images

  The update enables the vendor to continue to push generative AI technology to the masses while showing enterprises how they can use different models within their own products.

• October 11, 2023 11 Oct'23

  AMD tries to differentiate in AI market with acquisition

  The acquisition of the open source startup helps the chip vendor compete in the optimization market and offer flexibility compared to competitors such as Nvidia.

• October 10, 2023 10 Oct'23

  A customer experience provider's take on Amazon Bedrock

  Alida gained early access to the foundation model service in June. It found value using Anthropic's Claude summarization capability within the service.

• October 10, 2023 10 Oct'23

  CX and generative AI coexisting, carefully

  Tech journalist Don Fluckinger talks to the Targeting AI podcast team about generative AI's potential for better customer service and how the technology falls short.

• October 06, 2023 06 Oct'23

  How machine learning can combat climate change

  Machine learning can produce sustainability insights and help plan effective climate action. But researchers face challenges around data, compute and AI's own environmental impact.

• October 04, 2023 04 Oct'23

  Meta introduces generative AI features for advertisers

  The capabilities include a background generation feature, an image expansion tool for fitting aspect ratio across different mediums, and a text variation tool for copy.

• October 02, 2023 02 Oct'23

  Lawyers win in race to generative AI without adequate laws

  As Congress drags its feet on passing AI regulations, lawyers are filling the vacuum by helping enterprises navigate court rulings and regulations based on outdated laws.

• September 27, 2023 27 Sep'23

  ServiceNow continues to embed generative AI across workflows

  The vendor is not only focusing generative AI on various phases of the workflow, but also on domain-specific LLMs for its Now suite of digital assistants.

• September 27, 2023 27 Sep'23

  Meta introduces new AI assistant and studio

  The social media giant introduces new tools that incorporate generative AI capabilities in Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Some features could be helpful for small businesses.

• September 26, 2023 26 Sep'23

  Getty’s AI-generated image tool allays some artist concerns

  The image generator helps the stock image company get into the generative market and answer copyright questions for businesses but could still be a concern to artists.

• September 25, 2023 25 Sep'23

  Amazon's $4B investment in Anthropic fuels GenAI race

  This makes the tech giant Anthropic's primary cloud provider. This arrangement is different from Google's investment in the AI startup and Microsoft's investment in OpenAI.

• September 25, 2023 25 Sep'23

  Global hiring tech vendor Oyster treads carefully with AI

  The HR tech vendor, which serves companies looking to hire employees globally as part of the distributed workforce, is taking a cautious approach to AI, especially generative AI.

• September 21, 2023 21 Sep'23

  Oracle generative AI features differ from Microsoft offering

  Oracle's generative AI service, available in beta, uses partner Cohere's second large language model to analyze text for the feelings and opinions behind it, according to Gartner.

• September 21, 2023 21 Sep'23

  Benefits, risks of Google AI chatbot's Bard Extensions

  The tech giant's new extensions enable users to use the AI chat tool to summarize information from their email or make travel plans. However, it still has problems with accuracy.

• September 19, 2023 19 Sep'23

  Automation Anywhere intros new generative AI tools

  The new RPA tools come several months after the vendor added some initial GenAI capabilities to its platform and as vendors capitalize on the excitement about the AI technology.

• September 19, 2023 19 Sep'23

  SambaNova AI launches new chip: the SN40L

  The AI hardware and software provider's new chip offers enterprises a full stack approach to training LLM. It also makes it possible for customers to train multimodal models.

• September 18, 2023 18 Sep'23

  New Anyscale service enables fine-tuning of open source LLMs

  The AI startup introduced a service that lets enterprises deploy large language models into their applications using popular LLM APIs like Llama 2.

• September 14, 2023 14 Sep'23

  A venture capitalist's take on generative AI investment

  Funding for startups such as Anthropic, Cohere and Hugging Face shows that money is still flowing into the market. However, the criteria for funding are still strict.

• September 13, 2023 13 Sep'23

  The fear surrounding generative AI

  The language surrounding generative technology can lead to anxiety and a bad reception among employees to LLMs and tools such as ChatGPT, Dall-E and Bard.

• September 12, 2023 12 Sep'23

  How different industries apply generative AI

  Large language models such as ChatGPT, Bard and Llama have changed how enterprises think about technology. While some can use new AI tools now, others face challenges.

• September 06, 2023 06 Sep'23

  AI inference startup raises $110 million

  Investors are betting on d-Matrix to be a long-lasting vendor in the AI hardware and compute market, despite Nvidia's leading status. The startup offers a low-cost option.

• September 06, 2023 06 Sep'23

  Finance platform Intuit intros generative AI capability

  Intuit Assist is integrated into TurboTax, Mailchimp, Credit Karma and QuickBooks. It's built on the vendor's GenOS and uses LLMs from OpenAI and Intuit.

• August 29, 2023 29 Aug'23

  Google updates Vertex AI with new models, expands reach

  The cloud provider updates Vertex AI with models from Meta, a better PaLM 2 LLM, and adds features to its text-to-image product. It also expands an alliance with AI vendor Nvidia.

• August 29, 2023 29 Aug'23

  ChatGPT Enterprise targets some enterprise concerns, not all

  While the new product does not use customer prompts or company data in training OpenAI products, it fails to address other concerns surrounding hallucinations and copyright.

• August 28, 2023 28 Aug'23

  AI, data and turtles all the way down

  Nemertes Research CEO and analyst Johna Till Johnson discusses a persistent problem that enterprises often experience as they use new AI technology to address certain problems.

• August 28, 2023 28 Aug'23

  The compute problem AI startup Modular is targeting

  The vendor is looking to enable developers be more efficient in their training and inferencing of machine learning models. It uses a programming language called Mojo.

• August 24, 2023 24 Aug'23

  Meta AI translation model not ready for the enterprise

  The tech conglomerate's new AI model is a move toward universal translation. However, the vendor needs the open source community to help ready the model for the enterprise.

• August 23, 2023 23 Aug'23

  VMware, Nvidia unveil tech for building private enterprise AI

  Available in early 2024, VMware's Private AI Foundation with Nvidia combines VMware Cloud Foundation with Nvidia AI Enterprise to help companies build private generative AI.

• August 22, 2023 22 Aug'23

  Opportunities, challenges of ServiceNow generative AI plan

  The vendor said that while it is creating its own LLM models, it's not interested in winning the LLM war. Instead, it wants its customers to use the models for specific use cases.

• August 16, 2023 16 Aug'23

  Google’s search generative experience and its AI strategy

  The vendor upgrades SGE with new definition and code features. The search experience updates dispel earlier concerns about the tech giant's search business.

• August 15, 2023 15 Aug'23

  What big Korean telecom's investment in Anthropic AI means

  The telecom giant revealed that it will invest $100 million in the AI research vendor. The vendor will build a telecom-specific LLM to support the Global Telco AI Alliance.

• August 14, 2023 14 Aug'23

  AI good and evil as portrayed in the movies, and reality

  The classic '2001: A Space Odyssey' paints HAL the computer as evil, but Meryl Streep's helpful assistant in 'The Devil Wears Prada' might be closer to how AI behaves in real life.

• August 11, 2023 11 Aug'23

  What vendors must know about the AI assistant craze

  More vendors are introducing products to assist enterprises and consumers complete mundane tasks. But there's a need to be strategic and transparent with these products.

• August 09, 2023 09 Aug'23

  IBM collaborating with Meta to integrate Llama 2 in Watsonx

  The collaboration fits the vendor's strategy of offering enterprises both its own models and models from other vendors. It also shows the rise in popularity of open source.

• August 09, 2023 09 Aug'23

  Nvidia seeks to help enterprises with generative AI

  The hardware and software vendor introduced new offerings to help enterprises work on models locally. It also updated its enterprise AI suite and Omniverse platform.

• August 04, 2023 04 Aug'23

  AI cloud vendor Alibaba still has a long way to go

  The China-based vendor introduced two open source models: Qwen-7B and Qwen-7B-Chat. The models are smaller versions of Tongyi Qianwen, the LLM it released in April.

• August 02, 2023 02 Aug'23

  Microsoft, LexisNexis take partnership deeper with genAI

  The cloud provider and the legal research giant plan to create points of integration within Word, Outlook and Teams, while minimizing the risks that come with LLMs.

• July 31, 2023 31 Jul'23

  Researchers bust ChatGPT guardrails, question gen AI safety

  Researchers find they can trick AI chatbots including OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude and Google Bard into providing disinformation, hate speech, and other harmful content.

• July 31, 2023 31 Jul'23

  Targeting AI: Tesla undervalues self-driving safety tech

  The top electric car maker comes under heavy criticism for not investing in multiple sensors for its full self-driving system to improve driver and pedestrian safety.

• July 26, 2023 26 Jul'23

  AWS targets generative AI at NYC Summit

  The tech giant updated its Bedrock Platform with new foundation models and a new foundation model provider. It also introduced new services for developers and health professionals.

• July 26, 2023 26 Jul'23

  AWS seeks to teach executives about generative AI

  The cloud provider is releasing five courses that will help developers understand how to use some of its applications. It's also providing two courses for executives.

• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  Wayfair and the generative AI boom

  The online home and furniture retailer is using the technology despite challenges such as unauthorized use of data and maintaining data privacy. It also released a room-planning tool.

• July 21, 2023 21 Jul'23

  AI hype far exceeds its use within enterprises

  Experts say most organizations are holding back on spending while investigating the cost, legal liabilities and data privacy risks associated with generative AI use.

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  A look at open source AI models

  Open source AI models have advantages over generative AI services offered by major cloud providers. But enterprises have to weigh the benefits against the costs.

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  Meta Llama 2 brings new opportunity for enterprises

  The new LLM version is open for commercial use, meaning enterprises can train and experiment with it more. The social media giant also expanded its partnership with Microsoft.

• July 18, 2023 18 Jul'23

  A look at writers' battle to get AI vendors to pay them

  An Authors Guild open letter asks vendors to pay for works previously used to train generative AI systems and calls for lawmakers to tighten copyright laws.

• July 17, 2023 17 Jul'23

  Targeting AI: Responsible AI means regulation, ethical use

  AI users should adhere to ethical standards, particularly in regard to generative AI chatbots, but the promise of the latest tech is too great to not embrace.

• July 13, 2023 13 Jul'23

  Anthropic AI assistant differs from ChatGPT and Bard

  The new genAI product rivals OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google Bard. However, the research vendor is pushing it mainly to enterprises, while focusing on data privacy and security.

• June 29, 2023 29 Jun'23

  Resume company builds non-biased generative AI feature

  WorkStory used startup Armilla AI's AutoAlign platform. The platform tunes open source large language models and acts as a guardrail for non-open source ones.

• June 23, 2023 23 Jun'23

  Tesla full self-drive software and autonomous vehicle safety

  The automaker gave North American users access to its full self-driving system in 2022. However, critics say it fails to perform basic tasks and could lead to catastrophic results.

• June 22, 2023 22 Jun'23

  AWS invests $100 million in new generative AI program

  The Generative AI Innovation Center will connect AWS machine learning experts and data scientists with enterprises. Enterprises can also use AWS services to train and scale models.

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  Tribe 9 Foods uses digital twin technology from AI startup

  The food manufacturer saves time and money by using the startup's technology to gain insight into what consumers think about products it has released or is considering releasing.

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  HPE offers Cray supercomputer cloud service for AI models

  HPE unveils cloud AI services powered by its Cray supercomputers working in tandem with a version of its GreenLake for Large Language Models.

• June 13, 2023 13 Jun'23

  Oracle plans to provide generative AI services with Cohere

  Following Microsoft's strategy, the big tech vendor allied with a startup to get into the generative AI market. It plans to integrate the services with business applications

• June 12, 2023 12 Jun'23

  Nvidia and Hexagon collab to create digital twin products

  The vendors will integrate Hexagon's reality capture technology and Nexus manufacturing platforms with Omniverse, Nvidia's system for developing and creating metaverse apps.

• June 08, 2023 08 Jun'23

  AI startup Cohere raises $270 million from big tech vendors

  The new funding comes as the generative AI market grows rapidly and investors pour money into companies that build foundation models. Cohere competes with GPT creator OpenAI.

• June 08, 2023 08 Jun'23

  U.S. doesn't need a new AI regulator, experts argue

  Instead of establishing a new AI regulator in the U.S., it's crucial for existing agencies to conduct a review and determine their existing capacity for handling AI-related cases.

• June 08, 2023 08 Jun'23

  Google intros generative AI consulting services and updates

  The tech giant is aiming at enterprises with a series of new AI consulting services and tools to help businesses find new ways to summarize, automate and create content.

• June 07, 2023 07 Jun'23

  Sport teams drive sales leads with an AI digital assistant

  American soccer club Louisville City and the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks use Conversica to target the most promising leads for their sales teams and drive profit for their organizations.

• June 07, 2023 07 Jun'23

  Global workforce firm uses Glean's generative AI assistant

  The distributed global workforce platform vendor uses generative AI search to find information across its network. As an early user, Velocity Global found it helps with efficiency.

• June 01, 2023 01 Jun'23

  A look at 'risk of extinction from AI' statement

  The statement equates the potential risk of human eradication from AI to that of nuclear war. However, some argue society should instead mitigate the existing risk of AI bias.

• June 01, 2023 01 Jun'23

  Dataiku integrates with OpenAI, targets responsible AI

  The vendor's new data science platform includes integration with OpenAI's GPT-4 and multiple features to provide business users with control in the model creation process.

• June 01, 2023 01 Jun'23

  Automation Anywhere infuses RPA platform with generative AI

  The RPA vendor unveiled new features for its AI Success platform aimed at expanding the number of automation applications while providing users with a choice of cloud providers.

• May 30, 2023 30 May'23

  Nvidia's AI supercomputer garners support of Microsoft, Google

  Nvidia details plans to deliver multiple AI supercomputers this year using its new GH200 Superchip. The new system is capable of delivering 1 exaflop performance.

• May 24, 2023 24 May'23

  Dell enters generative AI market with Nvidia partnership

  The initiative provides enterprises with both Dell servers and Nvidia's H100 GPUs and software. It could appeal to Dell users that want to create generative models on premises.