Kyt Dotson
Latest from Kyt Dotson
Amazon invests $100M in new Generative AI Innovation Center to accelerate solution development
As enterprise businesses and startups continue to embrace generative artificial intelligence, Amazon Web Services Inc. furthered its investment in the technology today with the announcement of its Generative AI Innovation Center, a new program aimed at helping customers build and deploy AI solutions. The company said it’s investing $100 million in the program, which will ...
Apple Vision Pro SDK out now with in-person developer labs coming next month
Developers can get a head start on building apps for Apple Inc.’s much-anticipated mixed-reality Apple Vision Pro headset today with newly released developer tools that will allow them to develop for visionOS, the spatial operating system that it runs on. Apple unveiled the Vision Pro during its WWDC developer conference earlier this month priced at ...
MosaicML releases open-source 30B parameter AI model for enterprise applications
MosaicML Inc., a generative artificial intelligence startup that provides infrastructure for companies to run machine learning services, announced the open-source availability of MPT-30B, the company’s most advanced MosaicML Pretrained Model foundation series for commercially licensed AI applications. The company said that the MPT-30B model surpasses the quality of the original GPT-3 released by OpenAI LP ...
Dropbox rolls out new AI features for search and summarization
Cloud-based file-sharing company Dropbox Inc. announced new artificial intelligence-based features today that will make it easier for customers to discover all their files and information in one place, summarize information embedded in them and get questions answered. Dropbox is best known for its file-sharing service that stores files in the cloud and allows users to ...
Opera launches its generative AI-enabled browser powered by OpenAI
Web browser developer Opera Software announced today that its new generative artificial intelligence-enabled browser Opera One is out of testing and available with numerous improvements. The company says Opera One was redesigned from the ground up in preparation for AI-based browsing and allows users to access its AI sidebar, which is directly integrated with a ...
Synthetic voice AI firm ElevenLabs raises $19M along with a new detection tool
Artificial intelligence voice synthesis platform ElevenLabs Inc. today announced it has raised $19 million in fresh funding in a Series A round to launch a new set of tools, including an AI speech detection module. The ElevenLabs platform allows anyone to produce lifelike speech from text using synthetic voices, cloned voices or completely artificial voices ...
Vimeo announces AI-powered script generation and text-based video editing tools
Video platform Vimeo LLC today announced plans to help creators get things done with video creation needs through the addition of new artificial intelligence-powered tools and features, including a script generator and a text-based video editor. Vimeo provides web-based and mobile video creation and recording tools that already make it easier to produce one-shot content ...
BlackCat ransomware gang demands $4.5M, API changes for 80GB leaked Reddit data
Hackers from the BlackCat ransomware gang have contacted Reddit Inc. claiming to be behind a hack that affected the social media forum platform in February that took more than 800 gigabytes of internal documents, code, contracts and employee information. The hacker group, also known as AlphaV, also demanded $4.5 million to not release the stolen ...
Meta introduces Voicebox, a generative AI model for speech
Researchers at the artificial intelligence labs of Meta Platforms Inc. today announced a breakthrough with a generative AI model for speech dubbed “Voicebox,” which can accomplish a wide variety of tasks such as synthesizing speech, styling and editing content. According to researchers, what large language models such as OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT and diffusion models such ...
Google to wind down Google Domains, sell assets to Squarespace
In a surprise announcement on Thursday, Google LLC revealed plans to wind down Google Domains and sell its assets to website building and hosting company Squarespace Inc. Google Domains is currently home to more than 10 million domains, all of which will become Squarespace customers. The deal is worth $180 million, according to Bloomberg. Banking partner ...