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Nvidia unveils generative AI microservice for accurate answers with enterprise data
Nvidia Corp. today announced a new generative artificial intelligence microservice designed to allow enterprise businesses to connect custom chatbots, copilots and AI summarization tools to real-time proprietary company data to deliver more accurate results. The new service, called NeMo Retriever, is part of the Nvidia NeMo cloud-native family of frameworks and tools for building, customizing and deploying generative AI ...
AWS debuts next-generation Graviton4 and Trainium2 chips for cloud and AI workloads
Amazon Web Services Inc. today unveiled two next-generation chips from its AWS-designed silicon families for generalized cloud computing and high-efficiency artificial intelligence training with the release of the Graviton4 and Trainium2 during an AWS re:Invent conference keynote. The Graviton family of Arm-based processors is used by AWS to deliver high-performance and reduced costs for customers ...
Varjo releases XR-4 VR headsets featuring next-gen mixed reality capabilities
Finland-based virtual reality firm Varjo Technologies Oy launched the next generation of its high-fidelity mixed reality headsets today with the debut of its XR-4 series, which includes high-resolution displays, auto-focus cameras and new capabilities for industrial and enterprise applications. Varjo is well-known for making some of the most advanced VR and MR headsets on the planet, featuring human-eye resolution ...
LaunchDarkly previews generative AI-powered product experimentation feature
LaunchDarkly, a feature management platform that helps developers and software engineers manage and launch products, released a new experimentation capability today in preview powered by generative AI that will allow teams to quickly generate product experiments at scale. At the core of building and releasing products is understanding, measuring and testing small changes at scale ...
Microsoft, OpenAI sued over alleged unauthorized use of nonfiction authors’ work in AI training
Artificial intelligence startup OpenAI and Microsoft Corp. have been hit with a new lawsuit alleging that the companies violated copyright by using the works of nonfiction authors to train AI models, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Julian Sancton, author of the New York Times bestseller “Madhouse at the End of the Earth” and reporter, is the principal ...
Crypto exchange Binance to pay $4.3B in fines and CEO ‘CZ’ to step down
Updated: Binance Holdings Ltd., the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, today agreed to pay the U.S. government $4.3 billion to settle charges for breaking sanctions and money transmitting laws. At the same time, Binance Chief Executive Changpeng “CZ” Zhao plans to step down and plead guilty to criminal charges in a bid to allow ...
Anthropic updates Claude 2.1 AI chatbot to process bigger files and improve safety
Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup geared toward building trustworthy AI models to rival OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT, today announced an upgrade to its Claude AI chatbot that advances its core features with significantly improved safety, a much larger context window and a new third-party tool use feature. The new version, Claude 2.1, an upgrade over Claude 2, is a ...
Meta opens up data from Instagram and Facebook for researchers
In a push for more transparent support for independent research of the social impact of Instagram and Facebook, Meta Platforms Inc. today announced that it’s launching new tools that will provide researchers with greater access to data. These new tools were initially released in beta access to researchers a few months ago after the company teamed up ...
SeeChange raises $10M to use AI vision to help retail outlets from warehouse to checkout
SeeChange Technologies Ltd., a U.K.-based developer of real-time artificial intelligence recognition systems, said today that it has raised $10 million (£8 million) in early-stage funding led by Triple Point Capital. The company aims to build systems to help global retail outlets save money by helping customers at checkout, improve safety in aisles and avoid losses ...
Digital assets exchange Bullish acquires crypto news site CoinDesk
The regulated cryptocurrency trading platform Bullish Ltd. said today it has acquired the crypto-focused media company CoinDesk. Bullish, an exchange run by former New York Stock Exchange President Tom Farley, bought CoinDesk in an all-cash deal. The financial terms of the deal remain undisclosed. Previously Digital Currency Group Inc., the parent company of CoinDesk, acquired ...