What's in Tech : Issue 3 / 5th July 2024
Dr.Dinesh Chandrasekar (DC)
Chief Strategy Officer @ Centific | Nasscom Deep Tech ,Telangana AI Mission & HYSEA - Mentor & Advisor | Alumni of Hitachi, GE & Citigroup | DeepTech evangelist |Author & Investor | Motto : Be Passionate, Kind & Lovable
In this week’s “What’s in Tech” newsletter, we have several points to cover – from Centific’s SME workshops and awards, to tech launches such as, Oracle’s new GenAI tool, Moshi, a French real-time multimodal model, Meta’s plans to bring GenAI to the Metaverse and many more. Additionally, we shall look at a few key strategic events such as Snorkel AI’s partnership with AWS, IBM’s cybersecurity collaboration with Microsoft and Persistent Systems’ acquisition of Starfish Associates.
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Centific attended the IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference 2024 (CVPR 2024) in Seattle. Here is the key takeaway from the event – “The need for high-quality training data is more critical than ever, especially for robotics companies scaling in production. As they grow, the demand for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and precise labeling will increase.”
Selvaggia placed 2nd at the TAUS Massively Multilingual AI Conference held in Rome. This competition has spotlighted major innovators and disruptors within the global language industry for over a decade.
Sanjay Bhakta and Kennedy Meda CFE were invited by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) Houston chapter to conduct a training seminar on “Reimagining Safety in the Age of GenAI”.
The companies will launch a “Custom Model Accelerator Program” where Snorkel AI will lead LLM development and delivery for Amazon’s customers building in SageMaker, Bedrock and other platforms.
According to a job listing, Meta is seeking to research and prototype new types of gameplay driven by Generative AI, like games that “change every time you play them” and follow “non-deterministic” paths.
The tool allows the use of GenAI directly within Oracle’s databases, reducing external AI expertise and data migration costs. It is said to significantly outperform Snowflake, Google BigQuery and Databricks.
The New Jersey based communications automation player caters to Fortune 500 companies, and has partnerships with AWS, Verizon, Genesys, etc.
Earlier this year, Figure had signed an agreement with BMW to deploy its robots in automotive manufacturing environments. The robots’ speech models are powered by ChatGPT.
Kyutai has released Moshi, built on Helium 7B model which can understand and express 70 emotions and styles, speak with various accents and handle two audio streams simultaneously.
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The LLMaaS will leverage the Dassault’s Outscale sovereign infrastructure, providing Mistral AI’s LLMs the highest security and compliance standards, including SecNumCloud.
The company says the Oracle Clinical Digital Assistant tool powered by GenAI will automatically transcribe patient conversations and input them into electronic health records.
As part of the collaboration, HCLTech aims to train 10,000 employees on IBM’s WatsonX AI and Data Platform. The CoE will be available through HCLTech’s AI Labs in Noida, India; London, the UK; and Santa Clara, the US.
The collaboration aims to modernize end-to-end security operations to deal with the rapidly advancing cybersecurity landscape, manage and secure cloud identities and co-invest in upskilling employees.
The company aims to fund third-party organizations to develop new model evaluations that can effectively measure advanced AI capabilities. The initiative will prioritize three main areas: AI safety level assessments, advanced capability and safety metrics, and infrastructure for developing evaluations.?
The initiative aims to establish multiple AI CoEs focused on sector specific AI use case development, secure data exchange, infrastructure setup, AI model training, and pilot projects.
China has requested far more patents than any other country when it comes to Generative AI, the U.N. intellectual property agency stated, with the United States a distant second.
Best Regards
Dinesh Chandrasekar
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