IMO Weekly Highlights - 06122023
IMO picked up a few pieces of notable news about AI and tech companies for the past week. This week,?Apple unveiled its Apple Vision Pro?mixed reality headset at its Worldwide Developer Conference.
Apple CEO Tim Cook ushered in a new era for mixed reality with the announcement of Apple Vision Pro, a new augmented reality headset that was the company’s first new product category in many years.
The headset announced at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference wasn’t a surprise thanks to a number of leaks, but experts had been predicting it would happen since 2015. The device comes early next year at $3,499. That price point is higher than rumored, and the debut is later as well.
Two U.S. Senators sent a?letter?today to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg that questions the leak of Meta’s popular open-source large language model?LLaMA, saying they are concerned about the “potential for its misuse in spam, fraud, malware, privacy violations, harassment, and other wrongdoing and harms.”
June 7th, applied AI platform?Instabase?announced the launch of?AI Hub, a comprehensive repository of AI applications focused on content understanding. Powered by?generative AI, the company aims to provide self-service solutions within AI Hub, enabling users from diverse backgrounds to harness the potential of powerful AI-driven insights.
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According to the company, AI Hub will unlock opportunities for individuals to engage with their content, spanning tax files, insurance claims, receipts, invoices and customer data while receiving expert-level responses.
At?Cisco?Live?2023, the company’s June 4-8 event,?Cisco?announced a series of generative AI innovations across its collaboration and security portfolios aimed at enhancing clients’ productivity and simplifying tasks through the power of large language models (LLMs).
Building on its recent investments in artificial intelligence and machine learning, Cisco unveiled its generative AI Policy Assistant, which enables security and IT administrators to define and implement detailed security policies across their security infrastructure.
June 8th,?Adobe?announced that it will bring Firefly, its image-generating AI that it claims is the only “commercially safe generative AI,” to enterprise users.?
Adobe Firefly for Enterprise will allow employees across departments to modify images in Photoshop, Illustrator, Express and Experience Manager. Businesses will also be able to custom-train Firefly with their own branded assets and in their own ecosystem, generating content in the brand’s style and language?using?APIs.?In a press release, Adobe said “hundreds” of brands are already working with?Firefly for Enterprise and the offering will be rolled out over the summer after Firefly comes out of beta.
The last two days have been busy ones at Redmond. June 7th, Microsoft?announced?its new Azure OpenAI Service for government. Today, the tech giant?unveiled?a new set of three commitments to its customers as they seek to integrate?generative AI?into their organizations safely, responsibly and securely.