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The US Department of Commerce is taking action to enforce President Biden’s Executive Order on AI
The US Department of Commerce announced several actions to ensure the AI Executive Order is implemented, including four NIST draft publications on identifying, and mitigating risks associated with generative AI, a program for AI evaluation, and a request for comment on AI's impact on patentability.
May 4, 2024
The UK government will fund AI training for small and medium-sized businesses
The UK Government has announced it has 6.4M available to fund small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) looking to train their workforce on AI technologies. SMEs can apply until May 31st. Successful applicants will receive an up to 50% reimbursement from their AI training investment.
May 4, 2024
OpenAI has negotiated a licensing agreement with the Financial Times
The Financial Times has struck a deal with OpenAI. The latter will pay an undisclosed licensing fee to access the FT's archive for training and have ChatGPT provide summaries and links to FT articles. The deal has come through as OpenAI faces increasing legal issues due to data-scraping accusations.
May 3, 2024
Ceartas has secured $4.5M in seed funding for its AI-powered brand protection services
Ceartas uses AI to detect unauthorized distribution and deep fakes of customers' content across platforms, removing over 1 billion infringing items. With a 99% removal rate, it secures revenue and brand integrity. After raising a $4.5M seed round, Ceartas is expanding from creators to enterprises.
May 3, 2024
Lamini announces it raised $25 million to accelerate its Enterprise AI platform
Lamini raised $25M to help enterprises build 'Expert AI' deployments: LLMs leveraging proprietary data to unlock domain-specific capabilities. Lamini's solutions include memory tuning, faster time to market and scalability, secure and flexible deployments across environments, and higher initial ROI.
May 3, 2024
CoreWeave raised $1.1B to continue driving the AI cloud infrastructure of the future
CoreWeave recently completed a $1.1 billion Series C funding round led by Coatue, with the participation of former lead investor Magnetar, and others. CoreWeave has stated that the new funds will drive the company's growth and global expansion.
May 3, 2024
The GitHub Copilot Workspace is now in technical preview
GitHub is reimagining the development environment with GitHub Copilot Workspace, a Copilot-native environment. GitHub Copilot Workspace sparks collaborative workflows with Copilot-powered agents throughout the full development process while enabling developers to retain control over every step.
May 2, 2024
Google upgraded Gemini to expand its global accessibility
Google recently upgraded the Gemini chatbot service. The mobile app and Google Assistant opt-in are available in over 100 countries and territories in nine major languages. Gemini can also be prompted from the Chrome address bar, and Extensions works for all the languages supported by the models.
May 2, 2024
A startup is harnessing the power of drones and AI to revolutionize demining
Jasper Baur and Gabriel Steinberg founded Safe Pro AI to tackle the challenges associated with demining. Their technology uses a machine learning model to analyze drone imagery to locate over 150 artifact types. Some humanitarian organizations currently leverage the technology to demine Ukraine.
May 1, 2024
Snowflake released Arctic, the new contender in the enterprise-focused LLM race
Snowflake Arctic innovates by setting a new baseline for cost-efficient large language model training. It combines a dense transformer with a residual MoE to achieve model quality and cost-effective inference and training in coding, SQL, instruction-following, and answer grounding.
Apr 30, 2024
Apple released eight very small open-source language models
Apple recently released the OpenELM (Open Efficient Language Model) family of models on Hugging Face. Other than the models' size, a key differentiator of the OpenELM models is the approach to non-uniform parameter allocation within each transformer model layer.
Apr 30, 2024
The Coca-Cola Company and Microsoft entered a cloud and generative AI initiative-accelerating partnership
Coca-Cola and Microsoft recently expanded their strategic partnership, with the former selecting Microsoft as its preferred and strategic partner. Currently, the partnership focuses on providing Coca-Cola with expanded access to Microsoft's cloud and AI platforms and solutions.
Apr 29, 2024