Generative AI
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Microsoft this afternoon previewed its answer to Google’s AI-powered search experiences: Bing generative search. Available for only a “small percentage” of users at the moment, Bing generative search, underpinned by…
But the fate of many generative AI businesses — even the best-funded ones — looks murky.
If the models continue eating each other’s data, perhaps without even knowing it, they’ll progressively get weirder and dumber until they collapse.
Content creators are busy people. Most spend more than 20 hours a week creating new content for their respective corners of the web. That doesn’t leave much time for audience…
Harvey, a startup building what it describes as an AI-powered “copilot” for lawyers, has raised $100 million in a Series C round led by GV, Google’s corporate venture arm. The…
Meta’s latest open source AI model is its biggest yet. Today, Meta said it is releasing Llama 3.1 405B, a model containing 405 billion parameters. Parameters roughly correspond to a…
Meta AI, Meta’s AI-powered assistant across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and the web, can now speak in more languages and create stylized selfies. And, starting today, Meta AI users can route…
Adobe released new Firefly tools for Photoshop and Illustrator on Tuesday, offering graphic designers more ways to use the company’s in-house AI models. Adobe’s new features let creative workers describe…
Unlike OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral and many of its generative AI startup rivals, Cohere doesn’t have a big consumer focus.
Meta has suspended the use of its AI assistant after Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) banned the company from training its AI models on personal data from Brazilians. The…
OpenAI introduced GPT-4o mini on Thursday, its latest small AI model. The company says GPT-4o mini, which is cheaper and faster than OpenAI’s current cutting-edge AI models, is being released…
TTT models, a new architecture, could effectively replace transformers if they scale up as their creators suggest they will.
The Designer app features “prompt templates” that are designed to help jumpstart the creative process.
Pindrop builds deepfake-combatting and multi-factor authentication products targeting businesses in banking, finance and related industries.
If you’ve ever bought a sofa online, have you thought about the homes you can see in the background of the product shots? When it’s time to release a new…
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What exactly is an AI agent?
Regardless of how they’re defined, the agents are for helping complete tasks in an automated way with as little human interaction as possible.
A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a new bill that seeks to protect artists, songwriters and journalists from having their content used to train AI models or generate AI…
The AI chatbot has been trained on Amazon’s product catalog, customer reviews, community Q&As, and other public information found around the web.
HerculesAI (formerly Zero Systems) has been working at automating professional services since 2017, originally concentrating on the legal industry. As part of that, it has actually been building large language…
Generative AI is everywhere these days, but Amazon Web Services has been perceived in some circles as being late to the game. In reality it’s still early, and the market…
Vimeo joins TikTok, YouTube and Meta in implementing a way for creators to label AI-generated content. The video hosting service announced on Wednesday that creators must now disclose to viewers…
Etsy has been grappling with an influx of generic “junk” and AI-generated products on its platform. The service revised its seller policy on Tuesday, introducing new labels that clarify whether…
Ex-Googler joins filmmaker to launch DreamFlare, a studio and streaming platform for AI-generated video
A startup called DreamFlare AI is emerging from stealth on Tuesday with the goal of helping content creators make and monetize short-form AI-generated content. The company, co-founded by former Google…
Quora says that Previews works best with chatbots that “excel” at programming, like Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro.
Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are throwing their weight behind a new venture, Thrive AI Health, that aims to build AI-powered assistant tech to promote…
Generative AI models don’t process text the same way humans do. Understanding their “token”-based internal environments may help explain some of their strange behaviors — and stubborn limitations. Most models,…
Meta plans to bring more generative AI tech into games, specifically VR, AR and mixed reality games, as the company looks to reinvigorate its flagging metaverse strategy. According to a…
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ServiceNow’s generative AI solutions are taking advantage of the data on its own platform
One of the earlier SaaS adherents to generative AI has been ServiceNow, which has been able to take advantage of the data in its own platform to help build more…
India’s top AI startups include those building LLMs and setting up the stage for AGI as well as bringing AI to cooking and serving farmers.