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This Week in AI: Deepfakes, Vertical Horizons and Smarter Assistance 
September 08, 2023

Is it Moore’s Law, or more’s law?  Anyone keeping an eye on the generative artificial intelligence (AI) landscape could be forgiven for confusing the two.  This, as another week has gone by, and with it another hyper-rapid clip of advances in the commercialization of generative...

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Ant Group Launches Specialized Large Language Model for Finance Industry
September 08, 2023

Ant Group has launched a financial large language model (LLM) and two applications that it powers in the China market. The financial LLM is a specialized language model that has been specifically fine-tuned for artificial intelligence (AI) applications in the financial services industry, the technology company...

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Imbue Secures $200 Million Investment to Develop Practical AI Agents
September 07, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Imbue, formerly known as Generally Intelligent, has raised $200 million in a Series B funding round, with a valuation of over $1 billion. The funding round attracted investment from notable names such as Astera Institute, NVIDIA, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt and Notion co-founder Simon Last, the company said in a Thursday...

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Anthropic Introduces Monthly Subscription Plan for AI Assistant
September 07, 2023

Anthropic has introduced a paid plan for its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, Claude.  The Claude Pro plan offers subscribers five times more usage of the AI assistant, which is available in only the United States and the United Kingdom, for a monthly fee of $20 in the U.S. and...

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IBM Previews Enhanced Version of WatsonX AI Platform
September 07, 2023

IBM says it is releasing new enhancements to watsonx, its artificial intelligence (AI) platform. The enhancements, announced Thursday (Sept. 7), include “a technical preview for watsonx.governance, new generative AI data services coming to watsonx.data, and the planned integration of watsonx.ai foundation models across select software and infrastructure...

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Tencent Unveils ‘Hunyuan’ As Chinese Tech Firms Jump on AI Train
September 07, 2023

Tencent Holdings is the latest Chinese tech giant to launch an artificial intelligence (AI) model. That’s according to Dowson Tong, CEO of the cloud and smart industries group, who spoke with CNBC ahead of the launch of the company’s “Hunyuan” model at a summit Thursday (Sept. 5). ...

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Sprinklr Integrates Its AI Platform With Google’s Vertex
September 07, 2023

Customer experience management platform Sprinklr has integrated its artificial intelligence (AI) platform with Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. “Generative AI is giving our AI wings,” Sprinklr founder and CEO Ragy Thomas said in a Thursday (Sept. 7) news release. “Our customers demand the ability to work with their preferred AI tools and...

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Big Tech Eyes Gen AI’s Potential to Revamp Voice Assistants
September 07, 2023

The biggest imagination-capturing advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) so far have been across text-based interfaces.  Even AI-generated images and videos are having a moment. But humans could speak to one another before they could write, draw or do much else. So why is it...

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Qualcomm Chief Says AI Could Revive Smartphone Market
September 06, 2023

Can artificial intelligence (AI) help turn around the smartphone market? The head of chipmaker Qualcomm believes so. In an interview with CNBC Tuesday (Sept. 5), Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said he sees substantial opportunity in AI, and that the company’s Snapdragon Summit in October could pave the way for major developments...