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Microsoft introduces generative AI copilot for finance teams
Microsoft Corp. is adding a new generative artificial intelligence copilot assistant that extends its Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 to help finance teams to get their everyday work done. Microsoft Copilot for Finance is a new role-based generative AI assistant now in public preview, joining Copilot for Sales and Copilot for Service now in general availability. Like ...
Google Cloud brings major AI-enabled feature updates to BigQuery and AlloyDB
Google LLC’s cloud division today rolled out major milestone feature updates to its analytical and database engines BigQuery and AlloyDB that blur the lines between the roles of data and artificial intelligence. Google Cloud today announced that BigQuery, the company’s serverless data warehouse that allows for the analysis of unstructured data, is getting access to ...
SPECIAL REPORT: AI'S NEXT FRONTIER: DATA
How synthetic data powers AI innovation – and creates new risks
As artificial intelligence models continue to evolve at ever-increasing speed, the demand for training data and the ability to test capabilities grows alongside them. But in a world with equally growing demands for security and privacy, it’s not always possible to rely solely on real-world information – and sometimes authentic data is scarce or difficult ...
Writer announces Palmyra-Vision, a multimodal LLM capable of understanding images
Generative artificial intelligence startup Writer Inc. today announced the introduction of Palmyra-Vision, an AI large language model capable of text and visual understanding that can analyze images and produce text based on them. Models that are capable of understanding more than one type of media are known as “multimodal” models, and Palmyra-Vision is Writer’s first ...
Salesforce launches Einstein Copilot AI assistant into beta
Salesforce Inc. today announced the beta availability of Einstein Copilot, a customizable generative artificial intelligence conversational assistant for every Salesforce application that is also capable of executing actions on the behalf of users. Einstein Copilot integrates directly into Salesforce and understands the context of what users are doing, providing them the ability to “chat” with ...
Mozilla research reveals AI-generated content labeling falls short
A research paper released today by Mozilla, the free software developer best known for Firefox, reveals that the artificial intelligence industry struggles to label AI-generated content effectively as it continues to proliferate across the internet. We are coming into an era when AI-generated content is becoming more prevalent. People have produced deepfakes, images that look ...
Stability AI announces early preview of Stable Diffusion 3 text-to-image model
Open generative artificial intelligence startup Stability AI Ltd. today announced the early preview of Stable Diffusion 3, the next generation of its highly advanced text-to-image AI model. The new model makes a large number of improvements over its previous model, including improved performance, image quality and prompting capability, the company said. In particular, Stability focused on increasing ...
Ethereum restaking protocol EigenLayer raises $100 million led by a16z
Crypto startup Eigen Labs raised $100 million in a funding announced today led by Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z crypto venture capital arm for its EigenLayer crypto restaking protocol. The startup previously raised $50 million in March in a funding round led by Blockchain Capital, bringing to total raised by the company to $150 million. Founded by Sreeram Kannan, ...
US lawmakers form AI task force to develop safety policy
A bipartisan task force of lawmakers in the United States House of Representatives on artificial intelligence technology was established today under the direction of Republican Speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. The objective of the new task force is to explore how Congress can determine how the U.S. can continue to lead the world ...
Google releases Gemma family of open-source AI models inspired by Gemini
Google LLC released Gemma today, a family of lightweight open-source artificial intelligence large language models built using the same research as Gemini, the company’s largest and most powerful AI technology. According to Google, the model’s name comes from the Latin word “gemma,” which is the root for “gem,” meaning precious stone. Gemma shares inspiration and technical ...