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OpenAI to pull ChatGPT ‘Sky’ voice that sounds like Scarlett Johansson – who isn’t happy
Updated: OpenAI, the creator of the popular artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, said today it will put a pause on the AI’s “Sky” voice after users commented that it sounded extremely similar to actress Scarlett Johansson. The AI voice debuted last week during the company’s reveal of a new underlying model for ChatGPT called GPT-4o. Capable of understanding and responding to video, including facial ...
AI cloud infrastructure startup CoreWeave raises $7.5B in debt financing
Artificial intelligence cloud-computing infrastructure startup CoreWeave Inc. today said it has raised $7.5 billion in debt financing. The funding was led by Blackstone Inc. with participation from Carlyle Group and BlackRock Inc. in one of the largest private debt funding rounds to date. It follows hot on the heels earlier this month of the company’s Series C equity financing ...
JetBrains releases Aqua, a development environment for test automation
Professional software development tools company JetBrains s.r.o today announced the official release of Aqua, the first development environment explicitly for helping streamline the software testing process by helping design test automation. Aqua allows test automation engineers and developers to build all manner of tests quickly during their software development process. These automated tests can be designed for user interfaces, application programming interfaces ...
Voxel51 raises $30M to help companies refine their visual AI models
Voxel51 Inc., a platform that helps visual artificial intelligence model developers curate and refine their data to increase the accuracy of their AI models, today announced that the company has raised $30 million in new funding to expand its products. The Series B investment was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from new investor Tru Arrow ...
Rockset launches native support for hybrid vector and text search to power AI apps
Rockset Inc., a real-time analytics database platform built for the cloud, today announced native support for hybrid search that incorporates vector search and text search along with metadata filtering into a single query. As artificial intelligence models continue to grow in popularity the need for powerful data search and retrieval systems to augment them has grown alongside them. AI models, including Meta Platform Inc.’s Llama-3, OpenAI’s GPT-4, Google LLC’s Gemini, have ...
Google releases second Android 15 beta alongside broader ecosystem updates
The Android team at Google LLC today unveiled the second developer beta for Android 15, the next milestone toward the finality of the company’s smartphone operating system, which included productivity improvements, performance and security updates. Alongside the second beta for Android 15, Google also announced developer updates for Android devices in the broader ecosystem, including Watches, TVs and additional developer tools that ...
Ubio launches NodeScript low-code visual toolset for data workflow automation
Web automation platform Ubio Ltd. today announced the launch of NodeScript, a low-code visual developer environment for workflow automation and application programming interface integration. The system is designed to make it simple for developers to map out and execute data services and applications quickly. NodeScript acts as a fully featured visual coding environment where developers can immediately jump ...
IBM expands quantum software kit Qiskit across the entire technology stack
IBM Corp. today announced it’s expanding its open-source quantum software engineering toolkit Qiskit to cover the entire software development stack and better equip developers with the ability to build practical solutions for quantum processors for research and enterprise applications. Launched in 2017, the Qiskit software development kit started as a way to assist developers to go quickly from code ...
Google rolls out new AI models and tools for developers
Google LLC today announced new artificial intelligence models and access to AI tools during its Google I/O 2024 developer conference that will help with providing new resources for developers working on applications using AI and machine learning. Up front and center, Google announced its newest model, Gemini 1.5 Flash, the company’s fastest model yet. It’s based on ...
OpenAI unleashes GPT-4o, a new flagship model with real-time multimodal capabilities
OpenAI upped its artificial intelligence game today with a new flagship AI model named GPT-4o that can respond in real time to text, audio and image inputs, promoting more natural human-computer interactions. The company says GPT-4o, with the “o” standing for “omni,” is a step toward making talking to an AI model feel more like speaking to or working with another ...