California’s Senate Bill 1047 (SB 1047), the "Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act," spearheaded by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), clears the Assembly Appropriations Committee with some significant amendments.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/16/2024
CloudBees announces the acquisition of Launchable in a move aimed at expanding GenAI optimization capabilities across its DevSecOps platform.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/16/2024
AI21 Labs' instruction-following large language model (LLM), Jamba-Instruct, is now available as a serverless API within Azure AI Studio’s Models-as-a-Service (MaaS). This is the first time Jamba-Instruct has been accessible through a cloud partner, and it represents a significant new collaboration between AI21 and Microsoft in the GenAI space, the companies said.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/14/2024
Organizations wondering how they can take advantage of the latest innovations in AI don't have to fully commit to an off-the-shelf LLM like OpenAI's GPT. Instead, they can deploy a custom-trained AI model that's tailored to their specific needs.
A new paper from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) details how IT teams can use AI to identify and address security weaknesses in their infrastructures.
This edition of our weekly roundup of AI products and services includes Mistral AI's new open-weight language models, Intel's new RAG Foundry framework, Hugging Face's new inference-as-a-service offering, the new Qwen 2-Math series, and more.
- By Pure AI Editors
- 08/12/2024
Microsoft and data fusion platform provider Palantir Technologies announce an expansion of their partnership to provide enhanced cloud, AI, and analytics capabilities to the U.S. Defense and Intelligence Community.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/09/2024
Google defectors Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas are leaving Character.AI, the artificial general intelligence (AGI) company they co-founded in 2021, to return to Google.
IT infrastructure giant Dell is undertaking a major restructuring that will potentially lay off thousands of employees and create a new AI-focused sales team.
OpenAI announces the introduction of Structured Outputs in its API, a new feature designed to ensure model-generated outputs conform exactly to JSON Schemas provided by developers. This innovation is expected to significantly improve the reliability and usability of AI-generated structured data in various applications.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/07/2024
Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, has implanted its Telepathy neural device into a second human test patient. The announcement was made during an eight-hour podcast ("Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity") hosted by MIT research scientist Lex Fridman, which also featured Neuralink co-founder DJ Seo, neurosurgeon Matthew MacDougall, brain interface software lead Bliss Chapman, and Noland Arbaugh, the first human test recipient of the device.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/07/2024
In a recently published survey of IT leaders, 90% of respondents confirmed that they are adopting AI in some capacity, but many said they're also struggling to get the full benefits of the technology because of outdated infrastructure and a lack of skilled employees.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/06/2024
This edition of our weekly roundup of AI products and services includes Google DeepMind's Gemma Scope, GitHub's new GitHub Models, Arcee AI's DistillKit, Stability AI's Stable Fast 3D, and more.
- By Pure AI Editors
- 08/05/2024