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Nvidia unveils first look at Eos, its latest data center-scale supercomputer
Nvidia Corp. today provided the first public look at the architecture powering Eos, the company’s latest data center-scale supercomputer designed for accelerating artificial intelligence development, described as an “AI factory.” Revealed in November during the Supercomputing 2023 trade show, Eos is named after the Greek goddess who is the personification of dawn. The supercomputer is built with ...
Mark Zuckerberg tried Apple’s Vision Pro and shared his thoughts
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg took to Instagram to share his thoughts on the newly released mixed-reality headset from Apple Inc., the Vision Pro, where he said that Meta’s Quest 3 headset was simply “the better product, period.” In the three-minute video, Zuckerberg (pictured) said he finally tried the new headset, noting that he expected ...
Cohere for AI unveils Aya, a multilingual open-source AI with 101 languages
Cohere for AI, the nonprofit research lab run by the artificial intelligence startup Cohere Inc., today introduced a “massively multilingual” open-source artificial intelligence large language model called Aya that can operate in 101 different languages. According to Cohere, with more than 100 languages under its hood, Aya’s capability represents more than double the number of languages covered ...
Sierra announces launch of conversational AI platform for customer service
Sierra Technologies Inc. today announced the launch of its conversational artificial intelligence platform designed to help companies interface with their customers using AI agents that can make recommendations, answer questions, take actions on behalf of employees and elevate the customer experience. The company, co-founded by ex-Salesforce Chief Executive Bret Taylor and former Google executive Clay Bavor, said ...
LeoLabs raises $29M to help companies safely operate in space
Satellite protection and space debris mapping startup LeoLabs Inc. today said it has raised an additional $29 million in new funding led by GP Bullhound. to help companies that operate in space expand their advanced artificial intelligence-powered insights. The new funding is an extension of the company’s Series B round that brought in $65 million in June 2021. ...
Crowd in San Francisco destroys driverless Waymo car by setting it ablaze
A crowd in San Francisco’s Chinatown surrounded a Waymo robotaxi and then set it on fire Saturday night, according to a report in the San Francisco Standard and other media outlets. Although there is no apparent motive for the attack, videos posted on social media show the car being mobbed by a crowd that began by scrawling ...
Xensam raises $40M for AI-powered software asset management platform
Xensam AB, a Swedish startup that assists companies with managing their software assets using artificial intelligence, today announced it has raised its first-ever external funds in a $40 million growth funding round led by London-based Expedition Growth Capital. Founded in 2016, the company provides an AI-powered platform that allows Information Technology teams to track, manage, monitor, identify ...
FCC votes to ban AI-generated voices on robocalls
The Federal Communications Commission today outlawed robocalls that use voices generated by artificial intelligence to crack down on deepfake technologies that may scam individuals and mislead voters. The initiative took immediate effect today, according to the unanimous ruling, which extends the FCC’s anti-robocall rules to cover calls that use artificially created or prerecorded voices that emulate ...
Major tech companies join US AI safety consortium to set standards for future development
The United States Department of Commerce announced today the creation of the U.S. AI Institute Consortium that will bring together major technology companies, government researchers and academics to support the development of safe and trustworthy artificial intelligence standards. The new consortium, housed under the U.S. AI Safety Institute, or USAISI, will be part of the executive order signed by ...
Google renames Bard to Gemini and brings it to mobile devices
Google LLC said today it’s renaming its artificial intelligence chatbot Bard to Gemini to reflect the large language model that powers the service and will bring the chatbot to Android devices to become an opt-in experience as an AI assistant. Gemini is the name of Google’s most powerful LLM, capable of holding conversations, advanced text ...