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RagaAI: Nvidia Alum Gaurav Agarwal Snags Funding for Startup That Fixes Broken AI
24Jan By adminNo Comments
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RagaAI: Nvidia Alum Gaurav Agarwal Snags Funding for Startup That Fixes Broken AI

[ad_1] RagaAI has secured funding to develop a tool that aims to diagnose and fix flaws with artificial intelligence systems, responding to an increasing emphasis on safety and reliability during the AI boom.The startup founded by Gaurav Agarwal, an alumnus of chipmakers Nvidia Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc., has come out of stealth-mode to close a $4.7 million seed round led by pi Ventures. It was joined by firms including Anorak Ventures and TenOneTen Ventures. The Silicon Valley startup uses foundation models to detect and fix problems in AI, such as hallucinations — a well-publicized phenomenon — or failure to factor in critical real-time information. The 44-year-old founder recounted what he called a near-death experience while test-driving a semi-autonomous vehicle on a Californ...
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CES 2024: BMW to Ecovacs, here are the ‘Worst in Show’ products, consumer advocates say
12Jan By adminNo Comments
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CES 2024: BMW to Ecovacs, here are the ‘Worst in Show’ products, consumer advocates say

[ad_1] The best CES 2024 products pierce through the haze of marketing hype at the Las Vegas gadget show to reveal innovations that could improve lives. The worst could harm us or our society and planet in such “innovatively bad” ways that a panel of self-described dystopia experts has judged them “Worst in Show.” The third annual contest that no tech company wants to win announced its decisions Thursday.AND THE AWARD GOES TO“From easily hackable lawn mowers to $300 earbuds that will fail in two years, these are products that jeopardize our safety, encourage wasteful overconsumption, and normalize privacy violations,” says the group of consumer and privacy advocates judging the awards. The contest has no affiliation with CES or the trade group that runs the expo. We are now on WhatsApp....
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Apple AI tools all set for launch with iOS 18; may make announcement around CES 2024 too
8Jan By adminNo Comments
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Apple AI tools all set for launch with iOS 18; may make announcement around CES 2024 too

[ad_1] With sales in the corridor of uncertainty in 2023, 2024 is a big year for Apple in terms of introducing AI features to its products to ensure it gets buyers to make a beeline for stores. With the Samsung Galaxy S24 set for a big launch, nothing short of a massive announcement will likely do. While the company is far behind then other competitors in terms of AI integration, however, it is working to ramp up its game. With the iOS 18 update, Apple is planning to bring new generative AI tools and features to the iPhones just like Samsung and Google Pixel are doing. Earlier, it was rumored that Siri may get generative AI features, however, it looks like Apple has planned something bigger, which it will reveal at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June. Apple's generative A...
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Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia to Sam Altman, check out the wild Generative AI ride in 2023
4Jan By adminNo Comments
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Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia to Sam Altman, check out the wild Generative AI ride in 2023

[ad_1] After OpenAI stole the limelight, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and other Big Tech companies rushed muscled in on the Generative AI action along with a sideshow that starred Sam Altman.ChatGPT was well on its way to becoming a household name even before 2023 kicked off. Just weeks after the Nov. 30 launch of the generative artificial intelligence-powered chatbot, OpenAI, the non-profit behind ChatGPT, was projected to rake in as much as $1 billion in revenue in 2024, sources told Reuters at the time. The so-called large language model's ability to turn prompts into poetry, song, and high school essays enchanted 100 million users within two months, accomplishing what took Facebook four and a half years and Twitter five in becoming the fastest growing consumer app ever. Sometimes, the ...
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Ola Founder Bhavish Aggarwal’s AI Startup Krutrim Launches Indian Large Language Model
16Dec By adminNo Comments
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Ola Founder Bhavish Aggarwal’s AI Startup Krutrim Launches Indian Large Language Model

[ad_1]  Krutrim, an artificial intelligence startup founded by serial entrepreneur Bhavish Aggarwal, has launched India's first multilingual large language model, which can generate text in 10 Indian languages. “Our LLM is voice-enabled, and able to understand several languages and even as a mix of languages such as Hinglish — Hindi and English,” Aggarwal said at the Friday event in Bangalore, hosted on the campus of Ola Group, where he's chief executive officer. “It's uniquely Indian.” Krutrim, which translates to “artificial” in Sanskrit, is also developing data centers and will ultimately aim to create servers and super computers for the AI ecosystem. The chatbot will be available in a beta version in January. Prototypes of the servers will be out in mid 2024 and production will star...
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Alphabet Needs to Show Path to AI Sales in Race With Microsoft
15Dec By adminNo Comments
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Alphabet Needs to Show Path to AI Sales in Race With Microsoft

[ad_1] Alphabet Inc. just got a reminder of how important the perception of having a winning AI strategy is for investors.The Google owner added $87 billion in market value in a single day last week after showing off the capabilities of its Gemini large language model, which it claims can rival OpenAI's ChatGPT. To sustain those gains, tech “The whole business model depends on getting this right,” said Gene Munster, co-founder and managing partner at Deepwater Asset Management, whose firm holds the stock. “If they can nail multi-modal generative AI, that will draw usage to Google, and that increased usage will protect and grow the search business.” Shares of Alphabet rose 0.5% on Thursday.Alphabet has been dogged all year by concerns it has fallen behind Microsoft Corp. in the AI race. ...
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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI hosts its first big tech showcase as the AI startup faces growing competition
7Nov By adminNo Comments
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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI hosts its first big tech showcase as the AI startup faces growing competition

[ad_1] The artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT has invited hundreds of software developers to its first developer conference Monday, embracing a Silicon Valley tradition for technology showcases that Apple helped pioneer decades ago.The path to OpenAI's debut DevDay has been an unusual one. Founded as a nonprofit research institute in 2015, it catapulted to worldwide fame just under a year ago with the release of a chatbot that's sparked excitement, fear and a push for international safeguards to guide AI's rapid advancement. The San Francisco conference comes a week after President Joe Biden signed an executive order that will set some of the first U.S. guardrails on AI technology. Using the Defense Production Act, the order requires AI developers likely to include OpenAI, i...
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Jack Ma-Backed Ant Developing Large Language Model Technology
22Jun By adminNo Comments
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Jack Ma-Backed Ant Developing Large Language Model Technology

[ad_1] Jack Ma-backed Ant Group Co. is developing large-language model technology that will power ChatGPT-style services, joining a list of Chinese companies seeking to win an edge in next-generation artificial intelligence.The project known as “Zhen Yi” is being created by a dedicated unit and will deploy in-house research. An Ant spokesperson confirmed the news which was first reported by Chinastarmarket.cn Ant is racing against companies including its affiliate Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Baidu Inc. and SenseTime Group Inc. Their efforts mirror developments in US where Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Microsoft Corp. are exploring generative AI, which can create original content from poetry to art just with simple user prompts. AI has become the next big arena for tech competition between ...
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