“Lensed” Supernova May Illuminate Universe’s Fundamental Forces
Astronomers have detected a previously unknown supernova explosion more than 4 billion light-years away using a rare phenomenon called "gravitational lensing," which serves as a kind of cosmic magnifying glass. They described their discovery and its potential implications in a new paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy. Co-author Ariel Goobar, director of the Oskar
AI Transforms Business Outcomes in Various Industries and Sectors
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Since late last year, AI development has gained momentum at what seems like an inexorable pace. From large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 that are capable of extraordinary cognitive feats (like scoring
Startup Optimizes Hardware to Tackle GPU Shortage for Generative AI
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More AI startup CentML, which optimizes machine learning models to work faster and lower compute costs, emerged from stealth today. The Toronto-based company aims to help address the worldwide shortage of GPUs needed
BCG Report Finds Growing Optimism in AI Usage
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Generative AI has been making headlines frequently in recent months, but how much are people really using the technology in their work? A fair bit, as it turns out: 46% of all
Visier Introduces Vee, a Next-Generation AI Assistant for Workforce Insights
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More The B2B workforce analytics company Visier today announced its first generative AI assistant Vee, which allows managers, HR leaders, and employees at its customer companies to type in their natural language queries
IT Network Managers, Be Cautious: AI is Not a Cure-All
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More If there’s one constant in the tech world, it’s the ongoing tug-of-war between hype and reality. I’ve seen this play out whenever a new “transformative” technology arrives on the scene. With the
Zuckerberg Announces Meta’s Plan to Integrate Generative AI in All Products and Reaffirms Commitment to Open Science
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More In an internal all-hands meeting this morning, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta is building generative AI into all of its products and reaffirmed the company’s commitment to an “open science-based approach”
Contextual AI Secures $20M in Funding to Develop Artificial Specialized Intelligence
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Contextual AI, a new enterprise-focused AI startup founded in Palo Alto by veterans of Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and Hugging Face, today emerged from stealth and announced it has raised $20 million
WordPress Introduces AI Assistant to Improve Content Writing
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More WordPress has announced a proprietary AI-powered writing assistant to help users create and edit blog posts. The new tool, called Jetpack AI Assistant, is now readily available on WordPress.com and seamlessly integrates into the
Cohere secures $270 million funding to introduce generative AI to businesses, challenging OpenAI.
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More AI startup Cohere is most certainly no longer flying under the radar. The Toronto-based company just announced $270 million in a series C round of funding led by Inovia with participation from
