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OpenAI

UK Launches Probe into Microsoft and OpenAI Partnership

Chris McKay• December 8, 2023 • 2 min read

As part of its inquiry, the CMA will analyze whether Microsoft now wields material influence, de facto control, or majority voting rights over OpenAI based on their exclusive cloud services contract and other partnership components.

Venture Capital Startups

MaintainX Secures $50 Million in Series C Funding, Advancing AI-Driven Industrial Maintenance

Chris McKay• December 8, 2023 • 2 min read

The new funding from Bain Capital Ventures and others will accelerate MaintainX’s product roadmap further into artificial intelligence.

Venture Capital Startups

Sarvam AI Raises $41 Million Series A to Pioneer India's Generative AI Landscape

Chris McKay• December 7, 2023 • 2 min read

Sarvam AI plans to focus squarely on the country's unique needs—including training models that can understand India's multitude of languages and voice-first interfaces.

Media & Entertainment

Unity Shows Off Latest AI Innovation In Game Development at Unite 2023

Chris McKay• December 7, 2023 • 2 min read

Announcements included early access availability to Unity Muse, a suite of AI-powered features to simplify content creation; a first look at Unity 6, and Unity’s next major software release coming in 2024

Stability AI

Stability AI Unveils StableLM Zephyr 3B, To Bring Tiny Yet Powerful LLMs to Edge Devices

Chris McKay• December 7, 2023 • 1 min read

Despite its relatively smaller size - 60% smaller than the 7B models - it competes favorably with larger models like Falcon-4b-Instruct and Llama-2-70b-chat.

Meta Launches Purple Llama to Promote Responsible and Equitable Generative AI

Chris McKay• December 7, 2023 • 2 min read

The company seeks to seeks to promote open collaboration to address challenges around cybersecurity, content filtering, and mitigating potential harms that are top-of-mind across the industry.

Venture Capital Startups

MIT Spinoff Plans to Build New Generation of AI Models with Liquid Neural Network Technology

Chris McKay• December 7, 2023 • 3 min read

The startup aims to commercialize the relatively new liquid neural network architecture developed by MIT.

Venture Capital Startups

Lutra AI Launches to Simplify Building AI Workflows

Chris McKay• December 7, 2023 • 1 min read

Founded by former Google and Coursera employees including Jiquan Ngiam, Lutra focuses on a code-first approach to integrating AI.

Research

TAP is a New Method That Automatically Jailbreaks AI Models

Chris McKay• December 7, 2023 • 3 min read

On average, TAP jailbroke GPT-4 in just 28 queries, circumventing safety measures and prompting responses on building homemade explosives or distributing pirated software.

AMD

AMD Unveils Next-Gen Instinct MI300 Accelerators to Power Advancements in AI and HPC

Chris McKay• December 7, 2023 • 3 min read

The new MI300 series includes three offerings - the MI300X Accelerator designed for generative AI workloads and HPC applications, the MI300X Platform optimized for massive multi-GPU AI deployments, and the MI300A APU tailored for advanced HPC workloads.

Google Gemini

Bard Gets Biggest Upgrade Yet with Gemini Pro

Chris McKay• December 6, 2023 • 1 min read

Early next year, Bard will receive another significant upgrade with Gemini Ultra, Google's most capable AI model intended for complex, multimodal tasks.

Venture Capital Startups

AutogenAI Raises $39.5 Million to Further Develop its AI-Powered Bid and Proposal Writing

Chris McKay• December 6, 2023 • 2 min read

AutogenAI applies natural language generation technology to help companies streamline the traditionally labor-intensive and complex process of crafting persuasive bids and proposals for contracts, grants, and other new business opportunities.

Google AI Tech

Google Unveils New On-Device AI Capabilities for Pixel 8 Pro with Gemini Nano

Chris McKay• December 6, 2023 • 1 min read

The Pixel 8 Pro, powered by Google Tensor G3, is now the first smartphone equipped with Gemini Nano, offering users a range of innovative features.

Google

Google Supercharges AI Compute with New TPU and AI Hypercomputer

Chris McKay• December 6, 2023 • 2 min read

Together, these launches represent Google's latest move to stay ahead of the relentless growth in AI model size and data demands.

Google Gemini

Google Unveils Gemini: Its Most Capable AI Model Yet

Chris McKay• December 6, 2023 • 2 min read

Gemini is the first general purpose foundation model to outperform GPT4-V on the majority of benchmarks.

Venture Capital Startups

Leonardo.Ai Secures $31M to Grow its Generative AI Art Platform

Chris McKay• December 6, 2023 • 2 min read

The new funding will be instrumental in expanding Leonardo.Ai's sales and marketing teams as it scales its enterprise product. There is also a focus on bolstering the engineering team to drive further innovation.

Venture Capital Startups

EnCharge AI Secures $22.6 Million to Unlock Broader AI Adoption with Novel AI Chips

Chris McKay• December 5, 2023 • 1 min read

By combining the strengths of analog and digital operation, EnCharge says its full-stack AI solution delivers the horsepower needed to enhance high-value functions across sectors.

xAI Venture Capital Startups

Elon Musk Is Raising $1 Billion for AI Startup xAI

Chris McKay• December 5, 2023 • 2 min read

As per filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, xAI has already garnered about $135 million from undisclosed investors.

Venture Capital Startups

Open-Source AI Platform Replicate Raises $40M From a16z to Make Models More Accessible

Chris McKay• December 5, 2023 • 2 min read

The new capital will focus on tailoring Replicate’s offerings for business users through enterprise tooling like monitoring, security compliance auditing, and hands-on support.

Venture Capital Startups

Asato.ai Secures $7.5M Seed Round to Build AI-Powered Enterprise Copilots

Chris McKay• December 5, 2023 • 1 min read

Asato's copilot technology combines knowledge graphs and generative AI to give CIOs comprehensive real-time visibility into their organization's complex IT assets and operations.

Stability AI AI Ethics

UK Court Advances Getty's Copyright Suit Against Stability AI: A Deep Dive into the Legal Battle

Chris McKay• December 5, 2023 • 2 min read

The court found that there were unanswered questions and inconsistencies relevant to the determination of the location of the training and development of Stable Diffusion.

Microsoft

Microsoft Unveils “Deep Search” to Deliver More Relevant Answers in Bing

Chris McKay• December 5, 2023 • 2 min read

According to Microsoft, Deep Search addresses a common pain point in search: when users have specific, nuanced questions, typical search engines often fail to fully understand the ask or return adequate answers.

Venture Capital Startups

Vast Data's Strategic Growth: Securing $9 Billion Valuation Amid AI Boom

Chris McKay• December 5, 2023 • 1 min read

VAST Data did not necessarily require new funding for operations, as CEO and co-founder Renen Hallack stated the company has largely left previous capital unspent.

Meta IBM

IBM and Meta Form The AI Alliance, An International Community to Accelerate Progress in Open and Responsible AI

Chris McKay• December 5, 2023 • 3 min read

The group consists of over 50 launch partners spanning industry giants, research pioneers, and innovators in AI hardware, software, and applications.

IBM Open Source

Qiskit, IBM's open-source toolkit for Quantum Computing

Chris McKay• December 4, 2023 • 2 min read

The fusion of Watsonx's AI expertise and IBM's quantum computing prowess creates a robust platform for innovation, pushing the boundaries of what's achievable in quantum computing.

UK Launches Probe into Microsoft and OpenAI Partnership

MaintainX Secures $50 Million in Series C Funding, Advancing AI-Driven Industrial Maintenance

Sarvam AI Raises $41 Million Series A to Pioneer India's Generative AI Landscape

Unity Shows Off Latest AI Innovation In Game Development at Unite 2023

Stability AI Unveils StableLM Zephyr 3B, To Bring Tiny Yet Powerful LLMs to Edge Devices

Meta Launches Purple Llama to Promote Responsible and Equitable Generative AI

MIT Spinoff Plans to Build New Generation of AI Models with Liquid Neural Network Technology

Lutra AI Launches to Simplify Building AI Workflows

TAP is a New Method That Automatically Jailbreaks AI Models

AMD Unveils Next-Gen Instinct MI300 Accelerators to Power Advancements in AI and HPC

Bard Gets Biggest Upgrade Yet with Gemini Pro

AutogenAI Raises $39.5 Million to Further Develop its AI-Powered Bid and Proposal Writing

Google Unveils New On-Device AI Capabilities for Pixel 8 Pro with Gemini Nano

Google Supercharges AI Compute with New TPU and AI Hypercomputer

Google Unveils Gemini: Its Most Capable AI Model Yet

Leonardo.Ai Secures $31M to Grow its Generative AI Art Platform

EnCharge AI Secures $22.6 Million to Unlock Broader AI Adoption with Novel AI Chips

Elon Musk Is Raising $1 Billion for AI Startup xAI

Open-Source AI Platform Replicate Raises $40M From a16z to Make Models More Accessible

Asato.ai Secures $7.5M Seed Round to Build AI-Powered Enterprise Copilots

UK Court Advances Getty's Copyright Suit Against Stability AI: A Deep Dive into the Legal Battle

Microsoft Unveils “Deep Search” to Deliver More Relevant Answers in Bing

Vast Data's Strategic Growth: Securing $9 Billion Valuation Amid AI Boom

IBM and Meta Form The AI Alliance, An International Community to Accelerate Progress in Open and Responsible AI

Qiskit, IBM's open-source toolkit for Quantum Computing

Adobe Previews Exciting Generative AI Innovations at MAX Sneaks

OpenAI Announces Its First Developer Conference

China Begins Testing "Hunyuan" AI Model Internally

Preorder ChatGPT for Android

Meta Open-sources LLaMA 2 for Research and Commercial Use