Google's new Cyber Defense Initiative, OpenAI's Sora launch, Bret Taylor's new AI startup, Anthropic's defense against election misinformation, and the first public preview of NVIDIA's Eos supercomputer, more.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/16/2024
One day after OpenAI unveiled an AI that can create videos out of text, some of the world's biggest purveyors of generative AI -- including OpenAI itself -- are sounding the alarm about the abuse of such technology during an especially busy election year.
OpenAI on Thursday unveiled "Sora," a text-to-video and image-to-video generative AI model.
OpenAI is piloting a new feature in ChatGPT that would let users control what and how much it remembers from conversation to conversation -- and also what it forgets.
Microsoft and OpenAI on Wednesday detailed how they jointly identified and shut down five state-sponsored hacking groups that were using OpenAI's LLMs "in support of malicious cyber activities."
Shipments of PC systems equipped with specialized artificial intelligence computing capabilities are expected to increase by 60 percent in the next three years, according to a report by IDC.
This week's roundup includes a new messaging API from Hugging Face, a new SchoolAI partnership with Utah, a new API serving the DALL·E 3 model that includes C2PA metadata, Google's launch of Gemini Advance, and Sam Altman's grand plan to get into the chip-making business.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/09/2024
Google Bard has a new name and a new "Advanced" for-pay version.
Oracle launches Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI, a fully managed service with an application programming interface designed to integrate large language models (LLMs) into various tasks,as well as a beta service for "AI Agents" to work with company data for specific organizational tasks.
Data quality may be the primary hurdle to enterprise adoption of generative AI, even though businesses are eager to leverage the new wave of AI technologies sparked by innovations such as ChatGPT.
There's no better bellwether today of a tech giant's fortunes than whether or not it has made the pivot toward AI.
It's been another lively week in the AI space. This week's roundup of news and product announcements includes a Bard update, a new shopping assistant from Amazon, a Google Maps enhancement, and a promise from Apple.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/02/2024
Neuralink implants a coin-sized wireless device during its first clinical trial of a brain-computer interface.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/31/2024