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Cloudflare announces new defensive AI products for protecting LLMs and companies from attack
Cloudflare Inc., a global cloud connectivity provider company, today announced the development of Firewall for AI to provide companies a layer of protection for artificial intelligence large language models, with an aim to identify potential attacks before they can tamper with critical functionality or access sensitive data. The company also announced a suite of new ...
Ideogram raises $80M as it releases text-to-image model
The artificial intelligence startup Ideogram announced Wednesday that it raised $80 million in new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz as it released the 1.0 version of its text-to-image generative AI model. The Series A round also attracted investments from existing investor Index Ventures and new investors Redpoint Ventures, Pear VC and SV Angel. Andreessen Horowitz co-led the ...
Humanoid AI-driven robotics startup Figure raises $675M at $2.6B valuation
Figure AI Inc., a Sunnyvale, California-based startup developing humanoid-styled bipedal robots, said today it raised $625 million in new funding, increasing the company’s valuation to $2.6 billion. The Series B round sees participation from technology investing giants, including Microsoft Corp., Open AI Startup Fund, Nvidia Corp., Jeff Bezos (through Bezos Expeditions), Parkway Venture Capital, Intel ...
Microsoft introduces generative AI copilot for finance teams
Microsoft Corp. is adding a new generative artificial intelligence copilot assistant that extends its Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 to help finance teams to get their everyday work done. Microsoft Copilot for Finance is a new role-based generative AI assistant now in public preview, joining Copilot for Sales and Copilot for Service now in general availability. Like ...
Google Cloud brings major AI-enabled feature updates to BigQuery and AlloyDB
Google LLC’s cloud division today rolled out major milestone feature updates to its analytical and database engines BigQuery and AlloyDB that blur the lines between the roles of data and artificial intelligence. Google Cloud today announced that BigQuery, the company’s serverless data warehouse that allows for the analysis of unstructured data, is getting access to ...
SPECIAL REPORT: AI'S NEXT FRONTIER: DATA
How synthetic data powers AI innovation – and creates new risks
As artificial intelligence models continue to evolve at ever-increasing speed, the demand for training data and the ability to test capabilities grows alongside them. But in a world with equally growing demands for security and privacy, it’s not always possible to rely solely on real-world information – and sometimes authentic data is scarce or difficult ...
Writer announces Palmyra-Vision, a multimodal LLM capable of understanding images
Generative artificial intelligence startup Writer Inc. today announced the introduction of Palmyra-Vision, an AI large language model capable of text and visual understanding that can analyze images and produce text based on them. Models that are capable of understanding more than one type of media are known as “multimodal” models, and Palmyra-Vision is Writer’s first ...
Salesforce launches Einstein Copilot AI assistant into beta
Salesforce Inc. today announced the beta availability of Einstein Copilot, a customizable generative artificial intelligence conversational assistant for every Salesforce application that is also capable of executing actions on the behalf of users. Einstein Copilot integrates directly into Salesforce and understands the context of what users are doing, providing them the ability to “chat” with ...
Mozilla research reveals AI-generated content labeling falls short
A research paper released today by Mozilla, the free software developer best known for Firefox, reveals that the artificial intelligence industry struggles to label AI-generated content effectively as it continues to proliferate across the internet. We are coming into an era when AI-generated content is becoming more prevalent. People have produced deepfakes, images that look ...
Stability AI announces early preview of Stable Diffusion 3 text-to-image model
Open generative artificial intelligence startup Stability AI Ltd. today announced the early preview of Stable Diffusion 3, the next generation of its highly advanced text-to-image AI model. The new model makes a large number of improvements over its previous model, including improved performance, image quality and prompting capability, the company said. In particular, Stability focused on increasing ...