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Scale AI publishes its first LLM Leaderboards, ranking AI model performance in specific domains
Artificial intelligence training data provider Scale AI Inc., which serves the likes of OpenAI and Nvidia Corp., today published the results of its first-ever SEAL Leaderboards. It’s a new ranking system for frontier large language models based on private, curated and unexploitable datasets that attempts to rate their capabilities in common use cases, such as ...
ECL makes first delivery of its sustainable, modular data center that can be deployed anywhere
Data center-as-a-service startup ECL said today it has closed on a $10 million investment from Hyperwise Ventures. The funding came as the company, incorporated at Edge Cloud Link Inc., unveiled the first delivery of its modular, off-the-grid data center that’s powered entirely by hydrogen. ECL said the funds from today’s round will be used to accelerate ...
Box beats targets on earnings, but light guidance holds stock price in check
Cloud content management company Box Inc. delivered a comfortable earnings and revenue beat today, increasing its profitability, but the results failed to impress investors all that much, as its stock was flat after-hours. The company reported first-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 39 cents per share, just ahead of the Street’s ...
Incorta debuts enterprise-grade foundation for private and secure generative AI applications
Data analytics startup Incorta Inc. is looking to increase its relevance in the generative artificial intelligence industry with the debut of a new offering called Operational GenAI, which it says can become the foundation of intelligent business applications. The company said Operational GenAI is private and secure, integrating state-of-the-art AI techniques such as retrieval-augmented generation ...
DataGPT expands generative AI chat-based business analytics with Google Analytics connector
Generative artificial intelligence-powered data analytics startup DataGPT said today it’s expanding its capabilities with the launch of a library of connectors for third-party applications such as Google Analytics, Salesforce, Hubspot and Shopify. Companies will be able to connect DataGPT to those platforms and use its generative AI chatbots to query them for insights using natural ...
Report: AWS to spend billions on new cloud data center infrastructure in Italy
Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing business is holding talks with the Italian government over a potential multibillion-dollar investment that will see it expand its data center operations in the country, in line with plans to boost its presence across Europe. That’s according to a report by Reuters, which cites four people familiar with the talks as ...
Research shows OpenAI’s GPT-4 outperforms humans in financial statement analysis, but skeptics aren’t convinced
OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model has reportedly demonstrated an ability to analyze financial statements with a level of accuracy that surpasses the best human financial analysts. The claim comes via a paper written by researchers at the University of Chicago, who say their results suggest a promising future for generative artificial intelligence in the field ...
AIOops: Google Search’s new AI Overviews feature tells users to put glue on pizza, create mustard gas
Google LLC’s new AI Overviews feature in Search has come in for some heavy criticism after generating a series of nonsensical, inaccurate and sometimes even potentially dangerous results in response to user’s queries. When Google debuted the new feature at its Google I/O conference last week, it warned that it’s an experimental experience, based on ...
Workday’s stock drops on mixed financial results and lower guidance
Shares of the human resources software company Workday Inc. initially fell more than 11% in extended trading today after it offered a disappointing forecast, only to recover somewhat once investors had time to digest its latest financial report. The company’s results were mixed. It reported first-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of ...
Report: Elon Musk’s generative AI startup xAI to close on $6B funding round next month
XAI Corp., the generative artificial intelligence startup created by Elon Musk to compete with OpenAI and other AI model makers, is hoping to close on a bumper funding round next month that would bring its value to north of $24 billion, according to a report today in the Financial Times. The paper cited one person ...
