One of the selling points of Google’s flagship generative AI models, Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash, is the amount of data they can supposedly process and analyze. […]
Emergence thinks it can crack the AI agent code
Yet another generative AI venture has raised a bundle of money. And, like the others before it, it’s promising the moon. Emergence, whose co-founders include Satya Nitta, the […]
Materia looks to make accountants more efficient with AI
The U.S. is facing an accountant shortage. Fewer first-time candidates took the CPA exam in 2022 than in 2006, according to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. […]
AI training data has a price tag that only Big Tech can afford
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 […]
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 […]
Here’s why most AI benchmarks tell us so little
On Tuesday, startup Anthropic released a family of generative AI models that it claims achieve best-in-class performance. Just a few days later, rival Inflection AI unveiled a model […]
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 […]
Treating a chatbot nicely might boost its performance — here’s why
People are more likely to do something if you ask nicely. That’s a fact most of us are well aware of. But do generative AI models behave the […]