The human costs of the AI boom
If you use apps from world-leading technology companies such as OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft or Google, there is a big chance you have already consumed services produced by online remote work — also known as cloudwork. Big and small organizations across the economy increasingly rely on outsourced la
How any SaaS company can monetize generative AI
If you work in SaaS, you've likely already been part of a conversation at your company about how your customers can benefit with increased value from your products infused with generative AI, large language models (LLMs) or custom AI/ML models.
As you hash out your approach and draw up the prod
This week in AI: Amazon ‘enhances’ reviews with AI while Snap’s goes rogue
"">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 the last week's stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn't cover on their own.
This week in AI, Amazon a
AI2 drops biggest open dataset yet for training language models
Language models like GPT-4 and Claude are powerful and useful, but the data on which they are trained is a closely guarded secret. The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) aims to reverse this trend with a new, huge text dataset that’s free to use and open to inspection.
Dolma, as the dataset is call
Pitch Deck Teardown: DeckMatch’s $1M seed deck
I recently wrote about DeckMatch’s $1 million seed round. Given that the tool evaluates pitch decks, it’s only fair that I offered to evaluate its pitch deck, too. The founders saw the irony in that and offered its pitch deck as a sacrifice to the teardown gods.
We’re looking f
Viome, a microbiome startup, raises $86.5M, inks distribution deal with CVS
Research on the human microbiome — microorganism communities that live in a part of your body such as your mouth or gut — has led to a number of insights and spurred further investigations into what makes up a healthy person. Combined with the continuing interest in alternative medicine
What is a liquid neural network, really?
The initial research papers date back to 2018, but for most, the notion of liquid networks (or liquid neural networks) is a new one. It was “Liquid Time-constant Networks,” published at the tail end of 2020, that put the work on other researchers' radar. In the intervening time, the paper
Arthur releases open source tool to help companies find the best LLM for a job
Arthur, a machine learning monitoring startup, has benefited from the interest in generative AI this year, and it has been developing tools to help companies work with LLMs more effectively. Today it is releasing Arthur Bench, an open source tool to help users find the best LLM for a particular set
Opera’s iOS web browser gains an AI companion with Aria
Opera’s web browser app for iOS is getting an AI assistant. The company announced today that Opera for iOS will now include Aria, its browser AI product built in collaboration with OpenAI, integrated directly into the web browser, and free for all users.
The AI solution had previously launche
OpenAI proposes a new way to use GPT-4 for content moderation
OpenAI claims that it’s developed a way to use GPT-4, its flagship generative AI model, for content moderation — lightening the burden on human teams.
Detailed in a post published to the official OpenAI blog, the technique relies on prompting GPT-4 with a policy that guides the model in
Google’s AI search experience adds AI-powered summaries, definitions and coding improvements
Google today is rolling out a few new updates to its nearly three-month-old Search Generative Experience (SGE), the company’s AI-powered conversational mode in Search, with a goal of helping users better learn and make sense of the information they discover on the web. The features include to
Google Photos adds a scrapbook-like Memories view feature aided by AI
Google Photos is introducing a new way to relive and share your most memorable moments with the introduction of a new Memories view, launching today to U.S. users. The feature lets you save your favorite memories or create your own from scratch in order to build out a scrapbook-like timeline that i
Sure AI is hot, but is it an actual market or a platform piece?
Companies of all stripes have begun embracing generative AI as a way to increase productivity and possibly even replace some workers. But the base technology has been around for decades. Over the last five to 10 years, big enterprise software companies have been building AI into their platforms wit
Data visualization startup Virtualitics lands $37M investment
"speakable-summary" style="font-weight: 400;">Many companies grapple with data challenges. In a 2019 survey, Deloitte reports that 67% of executives aren’t comfortable accessing or using the data at their organizations. In a separate poll from NewVantage Partners, meanwhe, less than a third of