This week in data: How to create or destroy value with generative AI
In this segment: Why data is your moat, the latest in generative AI productivity research and...
The implications of the generative AI gold rush
As AI labs become beholden to the interests of investors and big tech companies, they may...
AI assistants boost productivity but paradoxically risk human deskilling
AI assistants can boost productivity if used judiciously, but we must not implement the technology in...
Quizzing Intel exec Sandra Rivera about generative AI and more
I had a chance to pick the brain of Sandra Rivera, executive vice president and general...
How AI can be a ‘multivitamin supplement’ for many industries
AI won't replace humans, just as supplements don't replace a healthy diet. But AI will strengthen...
Meta quietly unveils Llama 2 Long AI that beats GPT-3.5 Turbo and Claude 2 on some tasks
It's a big validation of Meta's open source approach toward generative AI, and indicates that open...
DataStax takes aim at event-driven AI with open source LangStream project
DataStax's LangStream, an open-source project, has revolutionized event-driven AI by enabling real-time data streaming and integration...
Amazon Bedrock is now generally available as AWS enterprise GenAI efforts get serious
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of its Amazon Bedrock service, a vital tool...
Enterprise-focused AI startup Cohere launches demo chatbot Coral and Chat API
Cohere touted the fact that its new chatbot API features Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), a method of...
Luda raises $7M in funding for AI training simulation
Luda announced it's launched its Real-Time Reinforcement Learning system for AI agents and raised $7 million...
As Meta brings AI to apps, Google Bard’s fail offers cautionary tale
Meta's AI announcements come as fast-paced AI product releases are raising concerns about security, privacy, and...
What comes after AIOps? Atera says it’s AI powered IT (AIT)
Generative AI can bring more capabilities to IT operations, according to IT management platform vendor Atera,...
Exclusive: Microsoft opens AI Co-Innovation Lab in San Francisco to empower Bay Area startups
Microsoft announced today in an exclusive VentureBeat report the opening of its fifth AI Co-Innovation Lab,...
Sam Altman-backed Slope raises $30M for AI-powered B2B payments platform
Slope further offers financing for its customers' customers, allowing those who can't pay upfront to be...
Meta announces ‘universe of AI’ for Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp
At a keynote speech at the annual Meta Connect conference today, Mark Zuckerberg announced massive AI...
Campfire enables 3D collaboration for enterprises on Meta Quest 3
Campfire, which makes 3D collaboration tools for virtual reality, announced its platform for enterprises will debut...
Europe’s largest seeded startup Mistral AI releases first model, outperforming Llama 2 13B
Mistral’s demonstration of a small model delivering high performance across a range of tasks could mean...
OpenAI gives ChatGPT access to the entire internet
The company said the capability was now available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers and ChatGPT Enterprise users,...
Canada wants to be the first country to implement AI regulations: Minister of Innovation
Canada will be the first country with official regulations covering the emerging AI sector, said François-Philippe...
Zerobroker eliminates freight broker fees with AI-powered logistics platform
Zerobroker, the San Francisco-based startup, is making waves in the logistics sector with its AI-backed platform...
Revefi secures $10.5M in seed funding, launches AI-powered enterprise data platform
Revefi, an AI startup aiming to be a "copilot" for enterprise data teams, announced $10.5 million...
Kyber Knight’s $120M fund will invest in tech startups and games
Kyber Knight Capital launched a $120 million Vc fund and one of the founders said that...
Cloudflare ignites AI platform efforts with serverless inference, vectorize database and AI gateway
Cloudflare's new Workers AI service, provides a serverless capability for delivering AI inference models around the...
King celebrates Candy Crush Saga’s 15,000th level and $20B in revenue
Activision Blizzard’s King division is celebrating 20 years of as a company, and it noted that...
Hollywood writers’ strike ends with first-ever protections against AI
The prohibitions seem flexible enough to enable AI to be used when writing screenplays, but only...
AI needs human insight to reach its full potential against cyberattacks
Because social engineering attacks will only continue to grow, cybersecurity needs insight from both AI and...
Jensen Huang returns to Denny’s where trillion-dollar company began
Jensen Huang, CEO of one of the biggest tech companies in the world, celebrated Nvidia's founding...
Confluent launches new initiative to deliver fresh, real-time data streams for enterprise AI apps
Such realtime data is vital for use cases where speed is of the essence in business...
UnitQ’s new AI assistant surfaces customer insights from across channels
UnitQ's platform aggregates and analyzes vast amounts of user feedback data — gathered from app reviews,...
Microsoft’s bold move: Introducing AI assistant ‘Copilot’ in Windows 11
Microsoft, in a barrage of announcements, has once again made it clear that artificial intelligence (AI)...
Microsoft harnesses power of AI to boost Windows 11 security, pushes for passwordless future
Microsoft announced a series of new enterprise security features today that utilize artificial intelligence to help...
SAP launches its own enterprise AI assistant: meet Joule
Joule's capabilities range from answering questions in multiple languages to suggesting solutions based on data from...
Data & AI: How financial institutions are powering true hyper-personalization at scale
AI and analytics are powering innovative use cases for financial services with the potential for real...
The top U.S. cities for AI-driven job hunters
Nearly half of the gen AI job postings in the past year were for roles in...
Vectara grounds AI accuracy with Boomerang vector embedding
Vectara is going a step further in its quest to reduce the risk of AI hallucination...
Pictionary Vs AI makes the AI guess in a new version of the classic game
Mattel announced it's launching a new version of its classic board game Pictionary, integrating AI as...
Cloud giants Amazon, Microsoft and Google ignite battle over AI
Cloud computing leaders Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are all now backing different AI foundation models and/or...
Enterprise workers gain 40 percent performance boost from GPT-4, Harvard study finds
In the first large-scale study on GPT-4 usage in enterprises, Harvard researchers found that using generative...
Big Tech is driving the new UX design of AI | The AI Beat
Former Google chief decision scientist Cassie Kozyrkov says today's generative AI is a 'UX design revolution.'
ChatGPT goes multimodal: now supports voice, image uploads
ChatGPT is being enhanced with voice and image prompting capabilities that will roll out for Enterprise...
Google Bard fails to deliver on its promise — even after latest updates
The all new Google Bard 2.0 is here, but it stinks. So far, at least. Maybe...
Amazon bets $4 billion on Anthropic’s Claude, the chatbot platform rivaling ChatGPT and Google’s Bard
Amazon will invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, the company that has built a powerful...
The AI ‘Age of Uncertainty’
AI's promise and perils are profound. This demands deep wisdom and caution in building models that...
Lumen measures your carb burn so you can check your personal metabolism
I've been more active than ever lately. So I wrote about Lumen, a tool that has...
If you wouldn’t take advice from a parrot, don’t listen to ChatGPT: Putting the tool to the test
How does ChatGPT deliver when it comes to cybersecurity advice? One security expert found the bot's...
How much energy does AI use compared to humans? Surprising study ignites controversy
The paper found that when producing a page of text, an AI system such as ChatGPT...
VentureBeat’s Special Issues: Exclusive deep dives into Gen AI and other transformative tech
Do a deep dive, and gain knowledge to make informed decisions as a technical decision maker...
Secoda raises $14M to bring AI-driven, Google-like search to enterprise data
With its AI platform, Secoda wants to make searching for enterprise data as easy as looking...
CrowdStrike defines a strong vision for generative AI at Fal.Con 2023
The cybersecurity leader is strengthening its commitment to platform consolidation, DevSecOps, cloud security and generative AI...
Amazon leader says new Gen AI Alexa is a ‘super agent’
In an interview with VentureBeat after announcing Amazon's new Alexa LLM, the company's generative AI leader...