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He may not be playing Captain Kirk anymore, but Shatner clearly retains some of Kirk's unflinching and combative spirit.

OpenAI, is shrugging off the rise of nearly equally powered open source rivals by introducing new enterprise-grade features.

Perplexity said multiple leading enterprises, including Zoom, HP and Databricks, are already using its new Enterprise Pro plan.

Brev.dev partners with Akash Network to provide AI developers with on-demand access to decentralized GPU resources, revolutionizing AI development and democratizing access to high-performance computing.

Mabl unveils a testing service that uses AI and requires little coding knowledge to help ensure quality mobile enterprise apps are delivered.

Tredence launches GenAI-as-a-Service platform, empowering enterprises to harness generative AI with reduced costs, improved efficiency, and responsible AI governance.

Elf Labs is unveiling itself as a new transmedia business built around its ownership of hundreds of trademarked fairytale characters in zombie form. The Los Angeles company has an Emmy-winning production team, a seasoned branding/licensing division and it is powered by AI and compression technology, Elf Labs said. It was started (originally as Toon Studio) […]

Microsoft unveils Phi 3, a groundbreaking 3 billion parameter language model that packs vast AI capabilities into a compact size, making advanced AI more accessible and cost-effective for businesses across industries.

Amazon Bedrock update brings new custom model and guardrails capabilities to help deploy and secure generative AI in the cloud.

Adobe is putting the image generation capabilities of its newly unveiled Firefly Image 3 AI model directly into Photoshop.

41% of Americans now expect brands to use gen AI to enhance customer service, with 58% saying online shopping has improved as a result.

Alethea AI launched its emotive and expressive AIs on Coinbase’s BASE blockchain to bring AI agents to consumers and businesses.

As AI becomes indistinguishable from humans, tech leaders must confront urgent ethical issues around transparency, trust and unintended harm.

At what point do OpenAI and open source break even? Should you DIY with LLMs? Let's break down the cost options.

It’s still heartening to see that big companies can still invest in basic research, with much of the work done in Silicon Valley. Japanese telecommunications firm NTT announced a series of research projects last week that could pave the way for better AI and more energy efficient data centers. At a press conference in San Francisco, NTT researchers including […]

Companies leading the race to integrate LLMs into compliance and risk management are using smaller, more accurate models to revamp long-held processes that defied re-engineering with robotic process automation (RPA) efforts in the past.

Groq Inc's AI chip delivers blistering 800 tokens/sec inference on Meta's LLaMA 3 model, potentially reshaping the landscape of AI hardware.

Meta's open-source AI model, Llama 3, earns praise from Elon Musk and experts, signaling a shift in the tech landscape. Learn how this powerful tool is heating up the AI rivalry and shaping the future of social media.

Megalodon also uses “chunk-wise attention,” which divides the input sequence into fixed-size blocks to reduce the complexity of the model from quadratic to linear.

In the long run, Microsoft sees VASA research as a step towards lifelike avatars emulating human movements and emotions.

The company says it will publish a detailed paper on Llama 3's training process once it completes the 400B version.

Salesforce plans to use more Slack data to power AI-driven features, including the generation of key takeaways and action items from Huddles calls.

The remarks by Sheila Jordan, chief digital technology officer, that the company is already making "tens of millions" in dollars in net value with generative AI are significant because outside of the big GenAI technology providers like OpenAI and Microsoft, few Fortune 500 end-user companies are on record saying they’ve created so much net value.

Blockade Labs is releasing an update for its Skybox AI as the premier 360-degree AI seamless environment art creation platform.