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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Feature
24 Oct 2024
AI in cloud computing: Benefits and concerns
Businesses see public cloud as the primary vehicle for delivering generative AI's benefits in productivity, operational efficiency and workflow automation, but challenges remain. Continue Reading
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22 Oct 2024
Anthropic adds computer use AI tool to Claude
The startup said computer use can let developers automate repetitive tasks, scroll, move a cursor, click buttons and type texts. The function can also help with AI agents. Continue Reading
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29 Aug 2023
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. Continue Reading
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Podcast
28 Aug 2023
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. Continue Reading
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Feature
25 Aug 2023
Former Google exec on how AI affects internet safety
Longtime trust and safety leader Tom Siegel offers an insider's view on moderating AI-generated content, the limits of self-regulation and concrete steps to curb emerging risks. Continue Reading
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23 Aug 2023
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. Continue Reading
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18 Aug 2023
Compare 3 AI writing tools for enterprise use cases
AI writing tools target enterprise use cases, but aren't ready to replace a human writer just yet. Explore three popular options for content creation: Writer, Jasper and ChatGPT. Continue Reading
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16 Aug 2023
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. Continue Reading
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Podcast
14 Aug 2023
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. Continue Reading
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09 Aug 2023
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. Continue Reading
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09 Aug 2023
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. Continue Reading
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31 Jul 2023
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. Continue Reading
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Podcast
31 Jul 2023
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. Continue Reading
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26 Jul 2023
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. Continue Reading
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25 Jul 2023
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. Continue Reading
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Feature
19 Jul 2023
IT observability tool proliferation fuels AIOps deployments
Enterprise Strategy Group's Jon Brown discusses the latest findings in his newly released report on observability in IT and application infrastructures and integrating AIOps. Continue Reading
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19 Jul 2023
Qualtrics uses AI to analyze customer needs for better CX
Qualtrics unveils new generative AI tools to minimize time spent searching for and disseminating customer feedback and creating text responses to increase brand loyalty. Continue Reading
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Feature
17 Jul 2023
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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Definition
14 Jul 2023
Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS)
Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS) is the third-party offering of artificial intelligence (AI) outsourcing. Continue Reading
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13 Jul 2023
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. Continue Reading
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Opinion
05 Jul 2023
HPE goes all-in on supercomputing in the cloud
Given the popularity of large language model technology, tech vendors such as HPE are now looking to give customers offerings to help them train these models. Continue Reading
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News
29 Jun 2023
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. Continue Reading
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Definition
29 Jun 2023
cognitive computing
Cognitive computing is the use of computerized models to simulate the human thought process in complex situations where the answers might be ambiguous and uncertain. Continue Reading
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Feature
20 Jun 2023
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. Continue Reading
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13 Jun 2023
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 Continue Reading
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12 Jun 2023
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. Continue Reading
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08 Jun 2023
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. Continue Reading
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08 Jun 2023
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. Continue Reading
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Feature
08 Jun 2023
The impact of AI on social media
The newfound potential of AI -- especially with the recent explosion of generative AI models -- is affecting how humans interact and publish media online. Continue Reading
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Feature
07 Jun 2023
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. Continue Reading
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01 Jun 2023
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. Continue Reading
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01 Jun 2023
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. Continue Reading
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30 May 2023
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. Continue Reading
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19 May 2023
Meta infrastructure focus key to AI and metaverse ambitions
The company sees its new AI chip, data center and supercomputer as ways to develop a strong foundation for what it calls an immersive metaverse experience. Continue Reading
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17 May 2023
ServiceNow taps Nvidia to add AI workflows to Now Platform
Building on its AI investments the past three years, ServiceNow partners with Nvidia to develop AI-based workflows for the Now Platform. Continue Reading
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15 May 2023
Meta's AI Sandbox and generative AI in advertising
Sandbox's AI capabilities for online advertisers indicate a potential advance in how AI tools can support advertising and search with fewer human interactions and less user data. Continue Reading
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Definition
15 May 2023
automated reasoning
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
12 May 2023
Recap: Tableau Conference and ThoughtSpot Beyond 2023
Two events, each hosted by a different data analytics software provider, signify the tech industry's increased focus on democratizing AI -- especially generative AI. Continue Reading
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Definition
12 May 2023
Pathways Language Model (PaLM)
The Pathways Language Model is the name of a family of AI large language models developed by Google. Continue Reading
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11 May 2023
Google's upgrade of AI chatbot Bard could change search
The tech giant added new features and opened Bard to 180 countries and territories. While its new chatbot seems like an experiment, it may herald the next search experience. Continue Reading
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Tip
10 May 2023
History of generative AI innovations spans 9 decades
ChatGPT's debut has prompted widespread publicity and controversy surrounding generative AI, a subset of artificial intelligence that's deep-rooted in historic milestones. Continue Reading
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09 May 2023
IBM launches Watsonx, a new generative AI platform
The longtime tech giant is focusing on providing a hybrid cloud environment and a generative AI strategy that centers on enterprise, data and governance aspects of the technology. Continue Reading
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Definition
27 Apr 2023
cognitive bias
Cognitive bias is a systematic thought process caused by the tendency of the human brain to simplify information processing through a filter of personal experience and preferences. Continue Reading
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26 Apr 2023
OpenAI takes privacy step by changing ChatGPT data settings
The AI research lab is giving users the option to disable their chat history. Any conversations created when chat history is disabled will be automatically deleted 30 days later. Continue Reading
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25 Apr 2023
Nvidia NeMo Guardrails addresses trust concerns with AI bots
The toolkit enables enterprises to control the way large language models such as ChatGPT react to certain inquiries. It targets concerns enterprises have about trust and safety. Continue Reading
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Tip
19 Apr 2023
Generative AI landscape: Potential future trends
Learn more about the growth of generative AI, its impact on other technologies, use cases and 10 trends that will contribute to the technology's development. Continue Reading
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19 Apr 2023
Assessing different types of generative AI applications
Learn how industries use generative AI models in content creation and alongside discriminative models to identify, for example, instances of real vs. fake. Continue Reading
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12 Apr 2023
GAN vs. transformer models: Comparing architectures and uses
Discover the differences between generative adversarial networks and transformers, as well as how the two techniques might combine in the future to provide users with better results. Continue Reading
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Definition
11 Apr 2023
crypto-agility
Crypto-agility, or cryptographic agility, is a data encryption practice used by organizations to ensure a rapid response to a cryptographic threat. Continue Reading
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Definition
05 Apr 2023
neural radiance field (NeRF)
Neural radiance fields (NeRF) are a technique that generates 3D representations of an object or scene from 2D images by using advanced machine learning. Continue Reading
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Definition
31 Mar 2023
assistive technology (adaptive technology)
Assistive technology is a set of devices intended to help people who have disabilities. Continue Reading
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News
28 Mar 2023
Microsoft launches AI-powered Security Copilot
Microsoft Security Copilot is an AI assistant for infosec professionals that combines OpenAI's GPT-4 technology with the software giant's own cybersecurity-trained model. Continue Reading
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23 Mar 2023
Don't count out Google and its AI chatbot Bard from AI race
The tech giant may have been forced to respond as Microsoft and OpenAI dominate the generative AI market. However, it might still come out on top of its competitors. Continue Reading
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22 Mar 2023
ServiceNow's latest Now Platform focuses on AI, automation
ServiceNow doubles down on AI in its latest version of its Now Platform. Code-named Utah, the new version has several AI features intended to optimize business processes. Continue Reading
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21 Mar 2023
Nvidia aims at generative AI, joins with image stock firms
The AI hardware/software vendor offers services for enterprises to build generative models without starting anew each time. The vendor is also teaming with Adobe and Getty Images. Continue Reading
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16 Mar 2023
DataRobot intros AI Platform 9.0, generative AI to come
With the new platform, the vendor aims to help enterprises focus not only on model performance but also on business performance. The vendor also unveiled key new partnerships. Continue Reading
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14 Mar 2023
OpenAI releases latest version of its star LLM: GPT-4
The AI vendor introduced its latest large language model. With multimodal capabilities, it's expected to perform better while still suffering from some of the same problems. Continue Reading
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14 Mar 2023
Google embeds generative AI features in cloud and Workspace
The tech giant's new API enables enterprises to scale and adopt models without their data becoming part of the training ground for large language models, the vendor said. Continue Reading
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Definition
14 Mar 2023
Google Duplex
Google Duplex is an artificial intelligence (AI) technology that mimics a human voice and makes phone calls on a person's behalf. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Mar 2023
Exploring GPT-3 architecture
With 175 billion parameters, GPT-3 is one of the largest and most well-known neural networks available for natural language applications. Learn why people are so pumped about it. Continue Reading
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08 Mar 2023
SambaNova aims to meet generative AI challenges
The vendor's new platform enables enterprises to build generative models with their own data. The approach aims to resolve privacy and data ownership problems with generative AI. Continue Reading
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06 Mar 2023
Microsoft integrates GPT into Power Apps and AI Builder
The tech giant's new Power Platform features enable enterprises to use OpenAI’s GPT technology to create their own AI-powered bots or summarize and create content. Continue Reading
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24 Feb 2023
Meta's Llama enters the generative AI fray with ChatGPT, Bard
Trailing rivals Microsoft and Google, the Facebook parent company plunged into the surging large language model market with its own powerful interactive AI chatbot, Llama. Continue Reading
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24 Feb 2023
ElevenLabs and the risks of voice-generating AI
The startup's technology is popular among content creators and also bad actors who use it maliciously. But the AI voice platform also raises the issue of what's real and fake. Continue Reading
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22 Feb 2023
How hackers can abuse ChatGPT to create malware
ChatGPT's capabilities for producing software code are limited. But researchers have observed cybercriminals bypassing the chatbot's safeguards to produce malicious content. Continue Reading
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16 Feb 2023
VR platform aims to give retailers entry into the metaverse
Through a partnership with SAP, Obsess integrated the e-commerce platform within its virtual stores to create an interface that engages young consumers. Continue Reading
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15 Feb 2023
Nvidia and Intel partner to power new workstations
The new workstations will bring together powerful AI computing, rendering and simulation horsepower for data science workloads and media and healthcare enterprises. Continue Reading
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07 Feb 2023
ChatGPT bursts into Microsoft Bing as Google Bard rises
The AI search race heated up as Microsoft infused its struggling Bing search engine with OpenAI technology and Google introduced Bard, a lightweight version of its LaMDA chatbot. Continue Reading
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25 Jan 2023
ChatGPT could boost phishing scams
The conversational AI tool could make it hard to detect attackers due to how conversant and grammatically correct it is. A way to combat that is to create a detector. Continue Reading
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25 Jan 2023
Microsoft bets on AI to drive next wave of cloud, revenues
While Microsoft revenues grew slightly in its second fiscal quarter, the company's cloud revenues continue to stall as users become more conservative with their IT spending. Continue Reading
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23 Jan 2023
What Microsoft's new investment in OpenAI means for Google
The investment was expected as ChatGPT drew immediate worldwide attention. Observers now look to Google to see how the dominant search vendor will respond to ChatGPT's popularity. Continue Reading
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19 Jan 2023
AI21 intros text-generating AI capability that cites sources
AI vendor AI21 Labs' Wordtune Spices is a writing assistant that provides users with different text options and links to sources so that writers know where the information is from. Continue Reading
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Opinion
11 Jan 2023
Data, analytics and AI predictions for 2023
The expansion of big data, analytics and artificial intelligence we saw in 2022 will continue into the new year and present both new opportunities and challenges for organizations. Continue Reading
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10 Jan 2023
Nvidia, Intel team up on energy efficient AI server
Nvidia and Intel go from competitors to partners by jointly developing a system designed to push heavy AI workloads and offer users significant energy savings. Continue Reading
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09 Jan 2023
AI platform helps medical company screen babies' eyes
Startup Iris Technology unveils its new platform for 200 users. Medical AI company Pr3vent uses the platform to train its AI model and remove bias from its model. Continue Reading
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04 Jan 2023
Nvidia adds generative AI suite to Omniverse platform
The AI hardware/software vendor released new generative AI tools for developers. It also updated its Omniverse Enterprise platform and introduced registration for avatar builders. Continue Reading
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16 Dec 2022
Recent developments show us the future of chatbots
Experts in conversational AI are optimistic about what recent advancements in chatbot technology mean for the future. Despite challenges, these advancements can point the way forward. Continue Reading
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15 Dec 2022
Lensa AI app mixes up data, privacy and representation
The app generates avatars from users' images. While the terms and conditions worry critics, the avatars provide representation of racial groups not usually seen in art. Continue Reading
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14 Dec 2022
How AI can assist industries in environmental protection efforts
While technology for environmental protection isn't a new concept, AI advancements empower businesses to achieve sustainable operations. Continue Reading
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06 Dec 2022
How significant is AI's role in Industry 4.0?
Many examples exist to demonstrate the effectiveness of AI in Industry 4.0. It entails the newest revolution in manufacturing, so naturally advanced tech like AI will play a crucial role. Continue Reading
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23 Nov 2022
Apple's AI-powered RoomPlan complements a design app
Interior design company Planner 5D introduced an API feature created by Apple that enables app users to quickly scan rooms without taking too much time to draw and trace manually. Continue Reading
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16 Nov 2022
Finding what differentiates Cerebras' AI supercomputer
The vendor's new technology enables organizations that might not have the money to build their own supercomputer to try the technology and see what they can accomplish with it. Continue Reading
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14 Nov 2022
Intel deepfake detector raises questions
The vendor created a detector that uses facial blood flow to determine if a video subject is fake or real. However, its effectiveness to detect a real or fake video is unclear. Continue Reading
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08 Nov 2022
How AI in weather prediction can aid human intelligence
AI and machine learning models are becoming more widely used in climate prediction and disaster preparedness to aid experts without replacing them. Continue Reading
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03 Nov 2022
Pega CTO: Ethical AI for developers demands transparency
Pegasystems CTO Don Schuerman believes the cure for AI's ethical issues lies in broad data inputs, being sensitive to biases and algorithms that make explainable decisions. Continue Reading
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25 Oct 2022
IBM expands embeddable AI software with NLP capabilities
The addition to embeddable AI comes one week after IBM introduced its new AI chip. The libraries aim to make it easier for developers to use the Watson application. Continue Reading
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21 Oct 2022
AI groups work to tune, release large language models
CarperAI, Scale AI and other research groups have partnered to deliver instruction-tuned language models as the NLP market grows. Continue Reading
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18 Oct 2022
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure incorporates Nvidia GPUs and AI
Nvidia GPU chips will support Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Also, OCI users will have access to Nvidia's Enterprise AI system and Clara healthcare-specialized platform. Continue Reading
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11 Oct 2022
Google Cloud introduces new AI tools for business users
The tech giant released new a translation hub aimed at business users, a computer vision feature for the Vertex AI platform, and the OpenXLA Project open source initiative. Continue Reading
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Feature
06 Oct 2022
The creative thief: AI tools creating generated art
AI systems such as OpenAI's Dall-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are used to create striking images. But it can be unclear if the images are inspired by others or stolen. Continue Reading
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28 Sep 2022
DataRobot-managed AI cloud now generally available
With the managed version of its cloud platform, the vendor will run machine learning projects for enterprises that don't want them on the public cloud. Continue Reading
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23 Sep 2022
Industries leading the way in conversational AI
Learn how companies in vertical markets are using conversational AI and even partnering with AI developers for software that's tailored to their unique business needs. Continue Reading
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22 Sep 2022
Domino Data Lab partnerships target AI project management
The vendor has integrated its Nexus MLOps platform with Nvidia GPU architecture and the NetApp data management and storage system to help organizations better deploy ML projects. Continue Reading
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20 Sep 2022
Nvidia unveils Omniverse Cloud for metaverse applications
The new service lets enterprises build metaverse applications. The vendor also introduced new large language model services and unveiled upgrades to its H100 hardware line. Continue Reading
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09 Sep 2022
How Loram reduces distracted driving with AI technology
The road and rail maintenance company employs technology from a startup AI vendor with a computer vision and deep learning device that alerts unfocused fleet truck drivers. Continue Reading
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08 Sep 2022
National Grid saves $2 million by partnering with AI startup
The gas and electric company used AiDash to realize efficiencies and improve reliability and vegetation management in Massachusetts after a challenging year. Continue Reading
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26 Aug 2022
Troubled AI vendor DataRobot hit by more layoffs
The layoffs come after the former CEO quit amid criticism that he and top execs dumped stock as the company's financial outlook dimmed. The AI vendor is now in downsizing mode. Continue Reading
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24 Aug 2022
New funding for Anyscale boosts popular Ray AI platform
The startup raised $99 million and released a new version of its open source framework, which helps enterprises scale AI workloads and projects with available resources. Continue Reading
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Feature
24 Aug 2022
How businesses can benefit from conversational AI applications
Conversational AI tools have traditionally been limited in scope, but as they become more humanlike, businesses have realized their potential and applied them to more use cases. Continue Reading
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17 Aug 2022
A hyper-personalized AI platform for community finance
Using the vendor's Cortex AI platform, DeepTarget created a digital experience platform that community finance institutions can use to predict what consumers will buy. Continue Reading
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11 Aug 2022
Lessons enterprises can learn from Meta BlenderBot 3
The tech giant's AI chatbot raises concerns on how enterprises can train natural language generative systems without creating controversial and damaging products. Continue Reading
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09 Aug 2022
Nvidia targets metaverse with new Omniverse Avatar Engine
The vendor's new cloud engine will help organizations easily build avatars and digital assistants. Nvidia also revealed plans to evolve USD with partners such as Pixar. Continue Reading