Kyt Dotson

Kyt Dotson is a Senior Editor at SiliconAngle and works to cover beats surrounding DevOps, security, gaming, and cutting edge technology. Before joining SiliconAngle, Kyt worked as a software engineer starting at Motorola in Q&A to eventually settle at Pets911.com where he helped build a vast database for pet adoption and a lost and found system. Kyt is a published author who writes science fiction and fantasy works that incorporate ideas from modern-day technological innovation and explore the outcome of living with those technologies.

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AI chipmaker Groq raises $640M to meet rising demand for high-speed inference compute

Groq Inc., an artificial intelligence and machine learning chipmaker startup, said today that it has raised $640 million in a late-stage round of funding led by Blackrock Inc. The startup designs semiconductor chips and software that optimizes deployed AI activities, known as inference, with a vision to compete with the biggest names in the industry ...

OpenAI can detect text generated by ChatGPT, but it’s not ready for prime time

OpenAI, the company behind the ultra-popular generative AI chatbot ChatGPT, has been developing a way to detect text generated by its AI tools but says that it’s not prepared to release the feature to the public. In an exclusive report, the Wall Street Journal noted that the capability has been warming the company’s servers for ...

Stability AI releases super-fast model for 3D asset image generation

Stability AI Ltd., the open-source generative artificial intelligence startup, has been on a roll, releasing new AI models that generate 3D assets from 2D images and capture motion in 3D. The company announced Thursday the release of a new generative AI model called Stable Fast 3D, which creates 3D models from a single 2D image ...

Open-source startup FOSSA acquires developer tool community StackShare

FOSSA Inc., an open-source compliance and security platform, today announced it has acquired the developer tool community platform StackShare for an undisclosed amount, bringing on board 1.5 million registered users. As a software company, Fossa specializes in open-source risk management by offering solutions for license scanning, compliance automation and vulnerability management. It allows businesses to ensure ...

Google debuts new AI-powered Chrome features to make browsing easier

Google LLC’s Chrome browser team today debuted three new features powered by the company’s latest generative artificial intelligence and Gemini models that will make it easier for users to take advantage of in the desktop browser. The new features include bringing Google Lens, an AI image search capability, directly to Chrome, as well as the ...

GitHub introduces AI model playground for developers to test and compare LLMs

Microsoft Corp.’s developer platform GitHub Inc. today announced the limited public beta launch of GitHub Models, an interactive sandbox environment that will provide developers and engineers free access to industry-leading generative artificial intelligence models. At launch, GitHub Models will provide access to popular models, big and small, including Meta Platforms Inc.’s Llama 3.1, OpenAI’s GPT-4o ...

Google Cloud announces new data innovations to support AI applications

Google LLC’s cloud division is rolling out new database and data cloud innovations to support customers building and scaling artificial intelligence applications to ensure that they are grounded in accurate and relevant enterprise information. Announced today at Google Cloud Next in Tokyo were several new capabilities for Spanner, Google Cloud’s distributed SQL relational database management ...

Amazon introduces new AI model to make checkout-free ‘Just Walk Out’ stores even better

Amazon.com Inc. today introduced a new artificial intelligence model for the technology behind the online retail giant’s “Just Walk Out” checkout-free service for brick-and-mortar retailers. The new model further increases the accuracy of the previous machine learning capabilities of the previous technology and applies them to physical stores by applying them to cameras, sensors in ...

Writer releases new specialized AI models for healthcare and financial services

Enterprise-focused full-stack generative artificial intelligence platform Writer Inc. today announced the launch of two new specialized large language models specifically designed for the healthcare and financial services industries. Beginning today, Writer is providing access to Palmyra-Med-70b and Palmyra-Fin-70b, specialized LLMs developed for medical and financial use cases respectively, on Nvidia Corp.’s NIM interference microservice, Baseten ...

Monday.com brings portfolio management for enterprise users to standardize project work

Project management software firm Monday.com Ltd. today announced the full release of its Portfolio management solution, an enterprise-ready product that assists with making decisions about projects across teams and departments. The company’s work management solution is a set of tools that organizations can use to build their own setup to manage every aspect of their ...