Health system leaders responding to the annual "Top of Mind for Top Health Systems" survey said that artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most exciting emerging technologies impacting their industry today, recognizing in particular its potential to enhance both care and administration.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/29/2024
Amazon plans to acquire edge inferencing specialist Perceive for $80 million in cash.
ChatGPT creator OpenAI is backing a California bill that would require tech companies to label content generated by AI in the form of a digital "watermark." The proposed legislation, AB 3211, known as the "California Digital Content Provenance Standards," aims to ensure transparency in digital media by identifying content created through artificial intelligence. This requirement would apply to a broad range of AI-generated material, from harmless memes to deepfakes that could be used to spread misinformation about political candidates.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/26/2024
This edition of our weekly roundup of AI products and services includes Nvidia's new Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B lightweight language model, Wiliot's new "WiliBot" GenAI chatbot that facilitates natural-language interactions with IoT-connected devices, Salesforce's new Einstein Sales Development Rep and Einstein Sales Coach Agent AI-powered agents, and more.
- By Pure AI Editors
- 08/26/2024
Anthropic announces its support to an amended version of California’s Senate Bill 1047 (SB 1047), the "Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act," because of revisions to the bill the company helped to influence, but not without some reservations.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/23/2024
Microsoft announces the release of its Phi-3.5-Mini-Instruct model, the latest addition to its Phi-3 model collection.
NVIDIA Research announces a new generative AI model for emulating high-fidelity atmospheric dynamics called StormCast to enhance the accuracy of weather forecasts, particularly at the mesoscale—a critical range for disaster planning that lies between storm and cyclone scales.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/21/2024
Sway AI today announced the integration of its flagship low-code/no-code AI environment with Microsoft Azure, enabling Azure customers to build and deploy secure AI and machine learning (ML) applications directly within the Azure ecosystem.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/19/2024
This edition of our weekly roundup of AI products and services includes GitHub's Autofix Copilot, Lambda Labs and Nous Research's Hermes 3, Neural Magic's LLM Compressor, Primate Labs' Geekbench AI 1.0, and more.
- By Pure AI Editors
- 08/18/2024
California’s Senate Bill 1047 (SB 1047), the "Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act," spearheaded by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), clears the Assembly Appropriations Committee with some significant amendments.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/16/2024
CloudBees announces the acquisition of Launchable in a move aimed at expanding GenAI optimization capabilities across its DevSecOps platform.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/16/2024
AI21 Labs' instruction-following large language model (LLM), Jamba-Instruct, is now available as a serverless API within Azure AI Studio’s Models-as-a-Service (MaaS). This is the first time Jamba-Instruct has been accessible through a cloud partner, and it represents a significant new collaboration between AI21 and Microsoft in the GenAI space, the companies said.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/14/2024
Organizations wondering how they can take advantage of the latest innovations in AI don't have to fully commit to an off-the-shelf LLM like OpenAI's GPT. Instead, they can deploy a custom-trained AI model that's tailored to their specific needs.