Data is at the heart of today’s advanced AI systems, but it’s costing more and more — making it out of reach for all but the wealthiest tech […]
DocuSign acquires AI-powered contract management firm Lexion
As DocuSign reportedly explores a sale to private equity, it’s acquiring a company itself. On Monday, DocuSign announced that it’s buying Lexion, a contract workflow automation startup, for […]
Why RAG won’t solve generative AI’s hallucination problem
Hallucinations — the lies generative AI models tell, basically — are a big problem for businesses looking to integrate the technology into their operations. Because models have no […]
Too many models | TechCrunch
How many AI models is too many? It depends on how you look at it… but 10 a week is probably a bit much. That’s how many we […]
xAI open-sources base model of Grok, but without any training code
Elon Musk’s xAI has open-sourced the base code of Grok AI model, but without any training code. The company described it as the “314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Expert model” […]
This Week in AI: Midjourney bets it can beat the copyright police
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in […]
Pornhub says, ‘Bad Texas! No smut for you!’
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AI2 Incubator scores $200M in compute to feed needy AI startups
The AI2 Incubator, spun out of the Allen Institute for AI in 2022, has secured a windfall $200M in compute that startups going through its program can take […]
AI2 open sources text-generating AI models — and the data used to train them
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2), the nonprofit AI research institute founded by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is releasing several GenAI language models it claims are more […]
Courtesy of AI: Weather forecasts for the hour, the week, and the century
Machine learning models are taking over in the field of weather forecasting, from a quick “how long will this rain last” to a 10-day outlook, all the way […]