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Siemens follows the path of industrial AI

The global tech conglomerate has adapted generative AI technology to create intelligent systems to control machines.

By Shaun Sutner , Esther Shittu • April 8, 2025

Agentic AI reality check: 5 blind spots for organizations

An analyst warns that, amid the hype around agentic AI, organizations risk overlooking hidden costs, ethical challenges and workforce readiness.

By Mike Leone • April 4, 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.

By Sean Kerner • April 4, 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.

By Antone Gonsalves • April 3, 2025

Anthropic brings AI to students with Claude for Education

The initiative is unsurprising, especially since students and employers have been pushing for more AI tools. However, it fails to address some issues.

By Esther Shittu • April 3, 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.

By Esther Shittu • April 2, 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.

By Esther Shittu • March 31, 2025

How does the bag-of-words model work in NLP?

It's no easy task to teach a machine learning system the complexity of human language. Bag-of-words models can help by turning text into numerical representations.

By Stephen Bigelow • March 31, 2025

ChatGPT vs. GPT: How are they different?

Although the terms ChatGPT and GPT are both used to talk about generative pre-trained transformers, there are significant technical differences to consider.

By George Lawton • March 28, 2025

When to use prompt engineering vs. fine-tuning

Understanding the pros and cons of each method can help your organization get more out of its generative AI systems.

By Lev Craig, Stephen Bigelow • March 27, 2025

AI model race heats up with OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek releases

The GenAI race intensifies with rapid model releases from LLM players, but enterprises are less focused on incremental upgrades and more interested in agentic AI.

By Esther Shittu • March 26, 2025

Can AI write code? A developer experiments in two languages

AI tools are becoming a realistic option to help with coding tasks. This developer put his own coding abilities to the test.

By Brien Posey • March 25, 2025

Oracle launches new AI Agent Studio in Fusion suite

The studio is designed for Oracle customers that already have most of their data situated in the Fusion suite. It includes new libraries and a trust and security framework.

By Esther Shittu • March 20, 2025

6 AI nurse robots that are changing healthcare

AI nurse robots like AIREC, Moxi, PARO, Pepper, TUG and XENEX are transforming healthcare. Discover how they assist with nursing tasks and help address staffing shortages.

By Kinza Yasar • March 18, 2025

Compare Google Vertex AI vs. Amazon SageMaker vs. Azure ML

What should your organization consider when choosing a platform for machine learning development and deployment?

By Chris Tozzi • March 13, 2025

Building AI agents a headache for tech leaders

While companies like OpenAI and Salesforce offer tools to build AI agents, tech leaders are struggling to understand and adapt the technology within their offerings.

By Makenzie Holland • March 12, 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.

By Esther Shittu • March 11, 2025

Generative AI models like DSLMs outperform LLMs in value

Small domain-specific generative AI models can be designed to address specific industry needs, proving more cost-effective and efficient than large language models for businesses.

By Makenzie Holland • March 11, 2025

GANs vs. VAEs: What is the best generative AI approach?

The use of generative AI is taking off across industries. Two popular approaches are GANs, which are used to generate multimedia, and VAEs, used more for signal analysis.

By George Lawton • March 10, 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.

By Esther Shittu • March 7, 2025

How companies are tackling AI hallucinations

AI hallucinations can cause real damage, so leading tech companies use automated reasoning, new data sets and retrieval-augmented generation to reduce them.

By Madeleine Streets • March 6, 2025

What is lemmatization?

Lemmatization is the process of grouping together different inflected forms of the same word.

By Alexander Gillis, Kinza Yasar • March 5, 2025

How and why to create synthetic data with generative AI

The data required to train and maintain models is often sparse or inaccessible. Fortunately, generative AI can create synthetic data to supplement real-world data.

By Priyank Gupta • March 4, 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.

By Olivia Wisbey • March 4, 2025

What is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that uses natural language processing to create humanlike conversational dialogue.

By Amanda Hetler • March 4, 2025