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Anthropic, an AI startup supported by Google and venture capital in the hundreds of millions (with the potential for even more), has unveiled the latest iteration of its GenAI technology, Claude. The company asserts that this AI chatbot surpasses OpenAI’s GPT-4 in terms of performance. The new GenAI from Anthropic, dubbed Claude 3, comprises a […]

While we may be several years away from the widespread adoption and reliability of physical quantum computers, it’s too early to dismiss deep tech. The field of high-level quantum computer science, which employs quantum principles to handle intricate computations in sectors such as finance and artificial intelligence, seems to be accelerating. In a recent advancement,

SambaNova, an AI chip startup that has amassed over $1.1 billion in venture capital funding to date, is targeting OpenAI and other competitors with a new generative AI product tailored for enterprise clients. Today, SambaNova unveiled Samba-1, an AI-driven system engineered for tasks such as text rewriting, coding, language translation, and more. The company refers

OpenAI’s Sora, capable of generating videos and interactive 3D environments in real-time, is a significant achievement showcasing the forefront of Generative AI (GenAI). Interestingly, one of the key innovations that contributed to its development, an AI model architecture informally referred to as the diffusion transformer, has been part of the AI research landscape for several

Several leading AI services were evaluated on their ability to handle inquiries and issues related to voting and elections, and the results were disappointing. The research revealed that no model is entirely reliable, with some frequently providing incorrect information. The study was conducted by Proof News, a newly launched platform for data-driven journalism. They expressed

GenAI has its share of challenges, but if there’s one area where it truly excels, it’s in surfacing answers from vast pools of data. Enter Glean, a software solution that connects to both first-party and third-party databases within enterprises. Think of it as a custom ChatGPT tailored for plain-English requests. Arvind Jain, co-founder of cloud data management

Writer, a San Francisco-based startup, is at the forefront of generative AI for enterprise applications. Their latest innovation, Palmyra-Vision, enables text generation from images, including graphs and charts. CEO May Habib explains that Writer’s strategic focus lies in multimodal content, emphasizing text output. While they currently analyze images rather than create them, Habib envisions the possibility of

Photoroom, the AI-based photo editing app headquartered in Paris, has recently closed its latest funding round. Led by Balderton Capital, the round secured $43 million at a valuation of $500 million. Co-founder and CEO Matthieu Rouif, along with CTO Eliot Andres, confirmed this development. Earlier reports indicated that the funding round would exceed $50 million, but it ultimately settled slightly lower. Despite

Google today announced the launch of Gemma, a new family of lightweight open-weight models, barely a week after launching the latest version of its Gemini models. Gemma 2B and Gemma 7B are the first of these new models, which were “inspired by Gemini” and are available for commercial and research use. Google did not give

Language teacher is one of the professions that is most likely to be replaced by AI. That doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. Some employers have chosen — including Duolingo, recently — to use AI as a substitute for human experts in language teaching. Even though AI-translated text is usually less rich in vocabulary than