Artificial intelligence platforms
It's important to be aware of what's available in the artificial intelligence platform market, whether you've only just begun to evaluate AI platforms or have already invested in AI tools such as machine learning. Find valuable insights into how to make enterprise AI software and device decisions and how to integrate those AI tools into your existing IT infrastructure.
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30 Jun 2025
Baidu makes foundation model Ernie 4.5 open source
The China-based AI vendor has contributed to the open source community before. The release of the family of open models highlights the growth of the open source community in GenAI. Continue Reading
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26 Jun 2025
Fair use rulings favor Meta and Anthropic but are limited
While the judges agreed with the fair use argument, it doesn't mean other lawsuits will have the same ruling. It's also likely that the Supreme Court will be the ultimate decider. Continue Reading
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25 Jun 2025
Claude vs. ChatGPT: How do they compare?
Compare Anthropic's Claude vs. OpenAI's ChatGPT in terms of features, model options, costs, performance and privacy to decide which generative AI tool better suits your needs. Continue Reading
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25 Jun 2025
Genesys Cloud AI Studio enables generative AI agents
Genesys enables custom generative AI agents for its users. Continue Reading
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Definition
24 Jun 2025
What is crypto-agility?
Crypto-agility, or cryptographic agility, is the ability of an organization to efficiently and rapidly change cryptographic algorithms, protocols or primitives in response to emerging threats, vulnerabilities or regulatory requirements. Continue Reading
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18 Jun 2025
Hands-on with QuillBot AI: Review and guide
Learn how one professional author uses QuillBot AI for writing tasks -- and how it stacks up to other popular options like Grammarly. Continue Reading
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17 Jun 2025
Pendo launches platform to analyze AI agent performance
The company said its new platform will enable businesses to track agentic AI software and optimize performance. Continue Reading
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17 Jun 2025
Oracle adds xAI Grok models to OCI
The move is customer-focused, as the tech giant aims to offer the models for applications such as content generation, research and business process automation. Continue Reading
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16 Jun 2025
How to use LangChain for LLM application development
LangChain helps developers do more with language models, linking them to tools, APIs and live data to build more capable and dynamic AI applications. Continue Reading
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13 Jun 2025
OpenAI o3 and o4 explained: Everything you need to know
OpenAI o3 and o4-mini are successors to the o1 model and are releases from the OpenAI reasoning model branch. These models became widely available on April 16, 2025. Continue Reading
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Definition
11 Jun 2025
What is Apple Intelligence?
Apple Intelligence is the platform name for a suite of generative AI capabilities that Apple is integrating across its products, including iPhone, Mac and iPad devices. Continue Reading
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11 Jun 2025
What differentiates Mistral AI reasoning model Magistral
Magistral is available in two versions. The vendor has also focused on traceable reasoning, which is important for heavily regulated industries. Continue Reading
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10 Jun 2025
AI legal battles: U.K. trial and new U.S. lawsuit unfold
Getty Images fights Stability AI over copyright infringement in the U.K. courts, while Reddit sues Anthropic for contract breach over unauthorized data scraping for AI training. Continue Reading
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Definition
06 Jun 2025
What is automated reasoning? How is it used in AI?
Automated reasoning is the area of computer science concerned with applying reasoning in the form of logic to computing systems. Continue Reading
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Opinion
04 Jun 2025
IBM delivers AI agent orchestration innovations at Think 2025
IBM's focus on AI agent orchestration, observability, and governance supports enterprise IT departments' need for a tool that spans multiple vendor platforms. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
30 May 2025
An introduction to LLM tokenization
Users interact with LLMs through natural language prompts, but under the hood these AI models are based on LLM tokenization. Expand your AI knowledge and skills with this tutorial. Continue Reading
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30 May 2025
Grammarly secures $1B in funding as it plans for the future
General Catalyst's investment shows confidence in Grammarly's AI and language expertise. The vendor plans to transition from an AI tool to a communications and productivity platform. Continue Reading
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29 May 2025
Workday adds seven agents to Illuminate platform
Workday expanded its Illuminate platform, adding new automation features for HR, finance and workforce management. Continue Reading
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29 May 2025
The New York Times in multiyear licensing deal with Amazon
This is the first licensing agreement the publisher has made with a company in the GenAI era. It is indicative of a trend in media, as many publishers partner with AI vendors. Continue Reading
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28 May 2025
How AI helps Henry Schein One's accounts payable team
The big healthcare product company's dental software division turned to AI automation startup Pipefy to transform a paper-based system into a digital one. Continue Reading
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22 May 2025
Anthropic intros next generation of Claude AI models
The models are designed for coding. Opus 4 helps with sustained coding tasks, and Sonnet 4 replaces 3.7 Sonnet. The models give insight into a shift in the GenAI market. Continue Reading
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21 May 2025
Mistral AI intros Devstral, new coding LLM
The model is aimed at coders. It expands the coding context window and focuses on enhancing current code. The LLM also shows what is possible with agentic technology. Continue Reading
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21 May 2025
Microsoft agent design, Power Apps evolve in sophistication
Microsoft bets big on agents and apps. Continue Reading
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20 May 2025
Google expands Gemini model, Search as AI rivals encroach
The tech giant introduced a slew of new generative AI capabilities as the pace of innovation in search technology intensifies. Continue Reading
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20 May 2025
Benchmarking LLMs: A guide to AI model evaluation
LLM benchmarks provide a starting point for evaluating generative AI models across a range of different tasks. Learn where these benchmarks can be useful, and where they're lacking. Continue Reading
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Definition
19 May 2025
What is AI democratization?
AI democratization, or the democratization of AI, is the concept that the benefits and control of artificial intelligence should be fairly divided among all people. Continue Reading
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19 May 2025
Get started with Amazon Q Developer
Amazon Q Developer is a versatile tool for software development, offering code generation, optimization recommendations and seamless integration with various IDEs and AWS tools. Continue Reading
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16 May 2025
AWS intros Strands Agents SDK
Many developers find agentic AI difficult, so the new SDK is meant to help them deploy the technology and connect models and tools. The toolkit also aligns with AWS' SDLC strategy. Continue Reading
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15 May 2025
Salesforce acquisition of Convergence adds Agentforce talent
Salesforce beefs up its Agentforce engineering corps, leadership. Continue Reading
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13 May 2025
Automation Anywhere adds reasoning to agentic AI platform
The robotic process automation vendor's agentic process automation platform now has a reasoning engine that can understand enterprise context and help with agentic orchestration. Continue Reading
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Definition
12 May 2025
What is intelligent process automation (IPA)?
Intelligent process automation (IPA) is a combination of technologies used to manage and automate digital processes. Continue Reading
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08 May 2025
Why enterprise AI is moving toward customization
At MIT's EmTech AI conference, tech leaders emphasized the value of purpose-built systems designed to support real business workflows. Continue Reading
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06 May 2025
IBM customers assess the performance of AI agents
Enterprises are carefully watching the popular technology. While some see agents as too immature relative to what vendors promise, others are slowly integrating them. Continue Reading
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Podcast
06 May 2025
GenAI assists writing platform Grammarly in AI strategy
The vendor uses a testing mechanism to show organizations how it has improved using its GenAI assistant. This is an example of the vendor moving beyond just being a proofreader. Continue Reading
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06 May 2025
IBM targets agentic AI orchestration
The long-established vendor launched agent-building tools, prebuilt agents, and orchestration and integration capabilities for enterprises to integrate with major vendor platforms. Continue Reading
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05 May 2025
Meta Llama 4 explained: Everything you need to know
Meta released Llama 4 -- a multimodal LLM that analyzes and understands text, images, and video data. There are three primary versions of Llama 4 -- Scout, Maverick and Behemoth. Continue Reading
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Definition
05 May 2025
What is assistive technology (adaptive technology)?
Assistive technology refers to devices and services that help people with disabilities and long-term health conditions perform a variety of tasks. Continue Reading
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01 May 2025
What Amazon Nova Premier reveals about AI models and agents
While the model is not unique, the vendor said it is the fastest and most cost-effective model in Amazon Bedrock at its intelligence level, which might appeal to some enterprises. Continue Reading
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30 Apr 2025
How to use Claude Desktop tutorial for beginners
Looking for an alternative to ChatGPT? There are many, but Anthropic's Claude Desktop app experience makes it an LLM alternative worth trying. Continue Reading
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30 Apr 2025
AI creators need to have women in the room
AI technology is growing, but biases and systemic challenges remain for women seeking to enter the field. This means that the tools themselves lack representation. Continue Reading
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29 Apr 2025
Google Gemini 2.5 Pro explained: Everything you need to know
Google's latest multimodal model – Gemini 2.5 Pro – entered the AI race with enhanced reasoning and improved performance across coding, math and science benchmarks. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
28 Apr 2025
How to build an AI agent tutorial with example
How do AI agents work? Are they like cron jobs? This walkthrough explains what AI agents can do, the basic principles that apply, and how to build your own AI agent using ChatGPT. Continue Reading
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28 Apr 2025
How to use Perplexity AI: Tutorial, pros and cons
AI-powered search engine Perplexity offers a conversational tone and much-needed source citations -- but it's not perfect. Learn how the tool works and how to start using it. Continue Reading
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25 Apr 2025
Perplexity is on iOS, but problems remain for AI search firm
The vendor faces many complex situations that might prevent users from setting it as their devices' default voice assistant. Users may instead move toward Siri. Continue Reading
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24 Apr 2025
Nvidia, OpenAI intro tools for agentic AI, creating images
The vendors add to the numerous tools available in the generative AI market with a new system for building and managing agents and a high-quality image generator. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
21 Apr 2025
Get started with Java and AI: A guide to LLM integration
Want to unlock the power of AI in your Java applications? This walkthrough guides you on how to use OpenAI and Java with large language models to unlock powerful new capabilities. Continue Reading
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17 Apr 2025
What's new and not new with OpenAI's latest reasoning models
The o3 and o4-mini models are supposed to be better than previous models. While they have improved abilities that can be seen as agentic, the upgrades are mostly incremental. Continue Reading
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Definition
17 Apr 2025
What is OpenAI?
OpenAI is a private research laboratory that aims to develop and direct artificial intelligence (AI) in ways that benefit humanity as a whole. Continue Reading
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15 Apr 2025
OpenAI's GPT-4.1 targets coding for developers
The new family of models is aimed at making developers code better. It includes OpenAI's first nano model. Continue Reading
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Opinion
15 Apr 2025
Google Cloud Next 2025: Ambition to lead AI agent ecosystem
The cloud giant delivered new tools to provide interoperability, enterprise security, powerful reasoning-capable models and low-latency infrastructure for AI. Continue Reading
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11 Apr 2025
GenAI vendor Writer releases agentic platform for business
The platform is geared for business users, the vendor's primary targets. However, it must compete with bigger tech companies' agentic tools. Continue Reading
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10 Apr 2025
With Llama 4, Meta ups stakes in open model race
Models in the new Llama 4 family compete with open source offerings, most notably from Chinese upstart DeepSeek. Continue Reading
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10 Apr 2025
Top 4 AI writing tools for improved business efficiency
AI writing tools target business use cases but aren't sufficient to replace human writers. Explore four popular options for content creation: ChatGPT, Jasper, Rytr and Writer. Continue Reading
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09 Apr 2025
Google intros agent building tools and an agent protocol
The tech giant introduced a new agent development kit. It also introduced enhanced reasoning capabilities and new features for its multimodal models. Continue Reading
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09 Apr 2025
Salesforce adds Agentforce to field service verticals
Salesforce spreads Agentforce's net to field service, across numerous industries. Continue Reading
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08 Apr 2025
Policymakers weigh U.S.-China AI competition after DeepSeek
Boosting federal R&D, sustaining export controls and creating a federal AI framework are a few suggestions experts made to help maintain the U.S. lead in AI. Continue Reading
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04 Apr 2025
Where AI really fits into digital customer experience tech
An interview with Calvin Cheng, partner at consultancy West Monroe, who works on digital strategy and CX teams. Continue Reading
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04 Apr 2025
Grok 3 model explained: Everything you need to know
XAI introduced and expanded its large language model to the newest version -- Grok 3, which offers features such as advanced reasoning, knowledge retrieval and text summarization. Continue Reading
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03 Apr 2025
Qualcomm seeks AI expansion with possible Alphawave buy
Qualcomm eyes Alphawave acquisition and buys research firm MovianAI to enhance its AI infrastructure portfolio, which includes an AI accelerator for model inference. Continue Reading
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02 Apr 2025
A look at OpenAI's $40B funding and $300B valuation
While the amount investors promised shows the potential for the ChatGPT maker in the AI market, concerns about the vendor's profitability could keep it from seeing the full amount. Continue Reading
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01 Apr 2025
Intel CEO Tan to revamp Intel development for AI
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan plans to leverage AI for semiconductor design, shed non-core assets and foster a culture of innovation to turn around Intel. Continue Reading
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31 Mar 2025
Amazon aims at AI agents with Nova Act for browser use
The vendor introduces a new model and SDK that developers can use to build AI agents to complete tasks on the web. But it's not the first -- or even the second -- to do so. Continue Reading
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28 Mar 2025
Anthropic's early lawsuit win pushes courts forward on fair use
The judge's ruling shows the complexity of bringing a lawsuit against model providers and the need for clarity on fair use in the age of generative AI. Continue Reading
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27 Mar 2025
Tech buyers swamped with agentic AI choices
Enterprise tech buyers, if you're overwhelmed by the array of autonomous AI platforms, it's not just you. Continue Reading
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27 Mar 2025
AMD teams up with Rapt AI to boost GPU performance for AI
AMD is partnering with Rapt AI to focus on workload management and performance optimization when running AI models on AMD's Instinct GPUs. Continue Reading
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27 Mar 2025
Advantages and disadvantages of AI explained
Is AI good or bad? AI will benefit society, according to experts, but only with the correct guidelines in place and a solid understanding of what AI systems can and cannot do. Continue Reading
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26 Mar 2025
AI existential risk: Is AI a threat to humanity?
What should enterprises make of the recent warnings about AI's threat to humanity? AI experts and ethicists offer opinions and practical advice for managing AI risk. Continue Reading
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25 Mar 2025
GitHub Copilot vs. ChatGPT: How do they compare?
Copilot and ChatGPT are generative AI tools that can help coders be more productive. Learn about their strengths and weaknesses, as well as alternative coding assistants. Continue Reading
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Podcast
25 Mar 2025
AWS developing high-performing autonomous AI agents
The cloud giant is deeply invested in generative AI. It has focused on adapting the Amazon Q assistant for what it calls 'high-performing agentic enterprise applications.' Continue Reading
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21 Mar 2025
Does using DeepSeek create security risks?
The Chinese AI chatbot, despite its efficiency and customizability, raises serious concerns about data privacy, censorship and security vulnerabilities for business users. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
21 Mar 2025
A developer's guide to thrive vs. AI in coding
Will AI replace software developers? No, if humans focus on what they can do best and AI can't: experienced analysis, imagination and creativity. Continue Reading
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Definition
20 Mar 2025
What is neural radiance field (NeRF)?
Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) use deep learning to turn 2D images of objects or scenes into detailed 3D representations by encoding the entire scene into an artificial neural network. Continue Reading
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19 Mar 2025
Nvidia readies Vera Rubin to replace Blackwell
Nvidia's upcoming advanced GPUs, Blackwell Ultra and Vera Rubin, give it as much as a two-year lead over competitors, an analyst says. Continue Reading
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18 Mar 2025
Nvidia aims at agents, physical AI with reasoning models
The AI hardware and software vendor launched Llama Nemotron, a family of open source models for agentic AI. It also introduced Cosmos Reason. Continue Reading
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18 Mar 2025
Adobe joins agentic AI fray with platform, prebuilt agents
2025 is the Year of Agentic AI -- and it's only March. Continue Reading
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17 Mar 2025
Baidu's low-priced new AI models bring questions about cost
The Chinese tech vendor said its reasoning model matches DeepSeek's performance, at half the price. It's unclear how much the vendor spent to build it. Continue Reading
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Definition
13 Mar 2025
What is GenAI? Generative AI explained
Generative artificial intelligence, or GenAI, uses sophisticated algorithms to organize large, complex data sets into meaningful clusters of information in order to create new content, including text, images and audio, in response to a query or prompt. Continue Reading
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11 Mar 2025
OpenAI rides agentic wave, intros new agent-building tools
The vendor's new Responses API includes various tools such as web search, file search and computer use that developers can use to build agentic applications. Continue Reading
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Podcast
11 Mar 2025
How the legal profession can benefit from AI technology
Lawyers can benefit from AI technology in many ways, but they must be careful to double-check briefs and other documents they create with generative AI. Continue Reading
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Definition
10 Mar 2025
What is Alphabet Inc.?
Alphabet Incorporated (also known as Alphabet Inc. or simply Alphabet) is a conglomerate of numerous companies, including the search engine giant Google. Continue Reading
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News
07 Mar 2025
Experts stunned by Trump attack on CHIPS Act
President Donald Trump challenged the CHIPS Act, favoring tariffs to attract semiconductors, despite experts arguing that subsidies have successfully drawn investment to the U.S. Continue Reading
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07 Mar 2025
Mistral tries to differentiate itself with new OCR API
The new tool enables the vendor to target specific use cases for its multimodal model. It also aims to help enterprises that want to self-host due to privacy concerns. Continue Reading
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Video
06 Mar 2025
How to get an OpenAI API key for ChatGPT
You don't need a browser to query ChatGPT; you can do it programmatically with an OpenAI API. Follow this seven-step process to get your ChatGPT API key. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2025
Salesforce banking on autonomous agents with Agentforce 2dx
Salesforce keeps up torrid pace for agentic AI development. Continue Reading
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Definition
05 Mar 2025
What is lemmatization?
Lemmatization is the process of grouping together different inflected forms of the same word. Continue Reading
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Definition
04 Mar 2025
What is Perplexity AI?
Perplexity AI is an artificial intelligence-powered web search tool that can generate answers to user queries and complete other content-generation tasks. Continue Reading
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News
03 Mar 2025
AI startup Anthropic raises $3.5 billion
The startup's valuation and technology continue to put it in direct competition with OpenAI. However, like OpenAI, it faces integration challenges from enterprises. Continue Reading
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Tip
03 Mar 2025
Generative AI ethics: 11 biggest concerns and risks
As adoption and use cases grow, generative AI is upending business models and driving ethical issues such as misinformation, brand integrity and job displacement to the forefront. Continue Reading
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28 Feb 2025
OpenAI GPT-4.5, Alexa+ and the move to wiser AI systems
With GPT-4.5 and Alexa+, generative AI systems are moving beyond just being LLM chatbots. Instead, they incorporate better human understanding and can perform tasks for humans. Continue Reading
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28 Feb 2025
Gemini vs. ChatGPT: What's the difference?
ChatGPT took the early lead among AI-generated chatbots before Google answered with Gemini. While ChatGPT and Gemini perform similar tasks, there are differences. Continue Reading
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27 Feb 2025
The top AIOps tools and platforms to consider in 2025
As AIOps approaches become more common among IT teams, the AIOps tools and platforms market has expanded. Compare leading options to decide which fits your needs. Continue Reading
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27 Feb 2025
Nvidia reports strong Q4, prepares for new AI GPUs
Nvidia's revenue soared 78% to $39.3 billon, driven by strong AI GPU demand. With Blackwell's success, a more powerful variant launches later this year. Continue Reading
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26 Feb 2025
Cisco, Nvidia expand AI infrastructure partnership
The broader Nvidia-Cisco partnership includes Cisco building systems that combine its OS with Nvidia's Ethernet technologies for optimized AI performance. Continue Reading
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25 Feb 2025
Intel unveils more Xeon 6 chips for AI servers
Intel launches Xeon 6 processors, the 6700P and 6500P, targeting AI systems and multi-socket servers, and enhancing performance for enterprise applications while reducing prices. Continue Reading
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19 Feb 2025
Microsoft unveils world AI model for video games
The new type of foundation model is similar to Nvidia Cosmos. While it makes for a better gaming experience, it's also applicable to enterprises. Continue Reading
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18 Feb 2025
XAI's Grok-3 highlights openness and transparency concerns
The AI startup's new Grok model has 10 times more compute power than the previous generation. XAI also introduced reasoning capabilities that it says surpass reasoning models. Continue Reading
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18 Feb 2025
Run Llama LLMs on your laptop with Hugging Face and Python
How hard is it to run a large language model within a Python program? With a little help from PyTorch and the Hugging Face API, it's not hard at all. Continue Reading
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Feature
18 Feb 2025
Google Gemini 2.0 explained: Everything you need to know
Google Gemini 2.0, announced in December 2024, will enhance generative AI with multimodal capabilities and agentic AI features, integrating across Google services. Continue Reading
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Feature
18 Feb 2025
ChatGPT search vs. Google: How do they differ?
ChatGPT brings a fresh take on internet search with conversational AI, but Google retains key advantages. Discover how these two platforms stack up and differ. Continue Reading
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13 Feb 2025
History of generative AI innovations spans 9 decades
The dominance of Nvidia chips, emerging technologies like agentic and embodied AI, and knockoffs of ChatGPT are among the latest milestones powering GenAI's business future. Continue Reading
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12 Feb 2025
Thomson Reuters win not telling of other AI fair use lawsuits
A judge rules in favor of the media company. However, the decision will likely not significantly affect generative AI lawsuits still waiting for a court ruling. Continue Reading