Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of May 31; Updates from Incorta, Tonic.AI, xAI & More
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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of May 31, 2024.
Keeping tabs on all the most relevant artificial intelligence news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week, in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy artificial intelligence news items.
Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of May 30, 2024
Anthropic AI Enables Claude on 'Tool Use'
Also, this tool can work with images, enabling applications that analyze visual data. An example Anthropic gave is that a virtual interior design consultant can use this tool to process room images and provide personalized decor suggestions.
Aporia Unveils Guardrails for Multimodal AI
The first-of-its-kind solution mitigates issues in video and audio-based AI applications such as hallucinations, wrong responses, compliance violations, and jailbreak attempts. This groundbreaking launch is setting a new standard when it comes to addressing the unique challenges of the rapidly growing generative AI landscape.
AWS and SAP PArtner on AI & Cloud ERP
Together, AWS and SAP are striving to make it easier for customers to adopt the RISE with SAP solution on AWS, to improve the performance and efficiency of SAP workloads running in the cloud and to embed generative AI into an enterprise’s entire portfolio of business-critical applications.
GaiaNet Nabs $10 Million in Seed Funding for Decentralized AI Agents
Instead of using centralized servers for deploying AI models, users set up individual machines to host individual models that act as individual agents customized for particular expertise, such as a teaching assistant, a business expert, a financial analyst or a crypto trader.
Incorta Unveils New Operational GenAI Offering
The new Operational GenAI offering integrates the company’s flagship platform with various best-of-breed open-source large language models, plus tools to fine-tune them so that companies can infuse them with their own knowledge to ensure accuracy and safety.
Lenovo Partners with Cisco on AI Innovation
The two companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement to jointly establish design, engineering, and execution plans for accelerating digital transformation with turnkey solutions that extend world-class networking and purpose-built AI infrastructure solutions from edge to cloud for customers worldwide.
Maven AGI Secures $20 Million in Series A Funding
Led by Jonathan Corbin, CEO, Sami Shalabi, CTO, and Eugene Mann, CPO, Maven AGI is an AI startup enabling enterprises to incorporate Generative AI into their customer support, without losing the human element.
Mistral AI Releases Coding LLM Fluent in 80 Languages
Operating in English, the LLM will be able to complete coding tasks, write tasks, and use a ‘fill-in’ mechanism for partial code. The program has also been tipped to reduce the risk of errors and bugs in code, for those companies and developers who utilize Codestral.
OpenAI Partners with The Atlantic & Vox
The deals give OpenAI added momentum in its quest for credible content to train its algorithms and inform its chatbots — and could also protect the Microsoft-backed company further from future copyright liability.
PwC is Now OpenAI's First Reseller
PwC said the deal will see its U.S. and U.K. employees and clients gain access to the latest tools from OpenAI, including its recently announced ChatGPT-4o model and new capabilities focused on voice and image.
Chinese SenseTime Founder Says AI Development Gap is Closing
On Tuesday, at the?UBS Asian Investment Conference in Hong Kong,?SenseTime Group co-founder Xu Bing told?Bloomberg's?David Ingles?that artificial intelligence chipmakers in China are quickly closing the technological gap versus?international players.
Tonic.ai Unveils Unstructured Data Lakehouse for LLMs
Leveraging its expertise in data management and realistic synthesis, Tonic.ai has developed a solution to tame and protect siloed, messy, and complex unstructured data into AI-ready formats ahead of embedding, fine-tuning, or vector database ingestion.
Musk's xAI Secures $6 Billion in Series B Funding
xAI will continue on this steep trajectory of progress over the coming months, with multiple exciting technology updates and products soon to be announced. The funds from the round will be used to take xAI’s first products to market, build advanced infrastructure, and accelerate the research and development of future technologies.
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