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Google DeepMind’s latest AI models: super-accurate weather forecasting and playable 3D worlds
Google LLC’s artificial intelligence research organization DeepMind today announced the release of two very different but exceedingly powerful large language models. One of them, GenCast, is focused on weather forecasts, and the other, called Genie 2, is designed to create elaborate, visually striking virtual worlds for video games. GenCast appears to have the most practical ...
Amazon Bedrock’s new marketplace kicks off with more than 100 AI models
Amazon Web Services Inc. is making more large language models accessible to artificial intelligence application developers through the Amazon Bedrock service, while beefing up that platform’s capabilities to optimize inference workloads and feed them with the data they need. The latest announcements today at the company’s annual extravaganza, AWS re:Invent include the launch of the new ...
Poolside brings its powerful generative AI coding models to Amazon
Artificial intelligence unicorn Poolside Inc. today announced it’s collaborating with the public cloud infrastructure giant Amazon Web Services Inc., making its foundational models and generative AI assistants available through the Amazon Bedrock service. The move, announced at AWS re:Invent 2024, will enable customers to access Poolside’s foundation models privately and securely to create their own, ...
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod cooks up recipes and flexible training plans to accelerate AI development
Amazon Web Services Inc. isn’t stopping at transforming Amazon SageMaker into a unified platform for artificial intelligence development tools. It’s equally determined to make it easier for builders to access the underlying infrastructure needed to train their next-generation AI models. Today at AWS re:Invent 2024, the company announced some key updates to Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. The ...
Kore.ai looks to boost business workers’ productivity with AI agents for information retrieval and more
Artificial intelligence agent startup Kore.ai Inc. is expanding its intelligent application development tools with the launch of AI for Work, a platform that promises to streamline business workflows and make employees more productive. The startup says AI for Work is solving problems around information retrieval and process automation, which can be especially time-consuming and draining ...
Enterpret raises $20.8M to interpret customer feedback everywhere with AI models
A startup called Enterpret Inc. says it’s using artificial intelligence algorithms to transform customer feedback into valuable insights that can inform product development, raising $20.8 million in a Series A funding round announced today. The round was led by Canaan Partners and saw participation from a host of other investors, including Kleiner Perkins, Peak XV ...
Shares of Pure Storage jump on impressive earnings beat and strong guidance
Shares of the data center hardware company Pure Storage Inc. flew into orbit today after it posted third-quarter financial results that breezed past analyst expectations and offered strong guidance for the current quarter. The company reported third-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 50 cents per share, easily beating Wall Street’s target ...
AWS transforms Amazon SageMaker into a single platform for AI and data analytics
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s popular neural network development platform Amazon SageMaker is getting a major refresh, with a host of new capabilities that will support the integration of faster structured query language analytics, petabyte-scale data processing and more besides. The new updates, announced at the annual AWS extravaganza re:Invent, are designed to transform Amazon SageMaker ...
Amazon Bedrock gets better safeguards and ability to orchestrate multiple AI agents
Cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services Inc. is looking to cement Amazon Bedrock’s status as one of the most popular platforms for artificial intelligence developers, enhancing its capabilities in a number of new ways. At AWS re:Invent today, the company announced multiple updates to the platform that it says will help to prevent AI applications from ...
Clarifai’s new AI compute orchestration platform spans every cloud and private data center environment
Intelligent application development startup Clarifai Inc. said today it’s expanding its artificial intelligence compute capabilities with the launch of a new compute orchestration platform that spans every public cloud and on-premises server. The new capabilities are all about helping organizations boost the performance of their AI applications and optimize spending to get more bang for ...