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Meta’s Open-Source AI Model Sparks Industry Debate on Commerce’s Future
July 29, 2024

Industry experts are debating the business impact of Meta’s free artificial intelligence (AI) model Llama 3.1, weighing its potential against practical implementation challenges. Boasting 405 billion parameters, the AI model claims performance comparable to proprietary competitors like GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. As Meta expands...

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OpenAI Director Says Artificial General Intelligence May Be 5 Years Out
July 29, 2024

How long will it take for artificial intelligence to be as smart as human beings? According to OpenAI board member Adam D’Angelo, that milestone is likely to happen “within five to 15 years,” Seeking Alpha reported Monday (July 29). D’Angelo, CEO and co-founder of Quora,...

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GenAI Giants Unleash New Models With More Business Capabilities
July 29, 2024

In a move that’s sending ripples through the tech and business worlds, Meta Platforms has unveiled its most advanced AI models yet, challenging industry leaders OpenAI and Google. The release of Meta’s Llama 3 family of models, mostly available for free, marks a significant escalation...

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AI Ethics Tackles Issues Arising From Machines Making Decisions
July 29, 2024

Imagine a world where machines make life-altering decisions about your health, your job prospects and even your freedom. That world isn’t science fiction — it’s already here. As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes our lives, a new frontier is emerging: AI ethics. This rapidly evolving field...

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Anthropic Named ‘Best Performing’ LLM as AI Arms Race Intensifies
July 29, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) firm Galileo has released a new ranking of top large language models (LLMs). The company on Monday (July 29) announced its latest “Hallucination Index,” which ranks the performance of AI LLMs from the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta. “This...

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OpenAI Fires Shot at Google With AI-Powered ‘SearchGPT’
July 29, 2024

OpenAI’s new “SearchGPT” tool, launched Thursday (July 25), aims to shake up the eCommerce industry online with AI-powered product discovery and comparison. The prototype, available to a limited test group, promises more concise and relevant results than conventional search engines. Unlike Google’s pages of links, SearchGPT...

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Freelancer.com CEO Says Anthropic Aggressively Scrapes Data From Sites
July 28, 2024

Website publishers are accusing artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic of “aggressively” scraping data from their sites. Such actions could violate publishers’ terms of services, the Financial Times (FT) reported Friday (July 26), citing interviews with those website owners. Data scraping is the automated process of...

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XAI Begins Training Chatbot on Content From X
July 26, 2024

Elon Musk’s xAI has reportedly begun training its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Grok, on users’ posts on X, the social media site also owned by Musk. X added a setting this week, available only to those accessing the social media site on the web, that...

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Photo App Photoroom Taps Green Energy for AI Training
July 26, 2024

Photo editing startup Photoroom plans to power its artificial intelligence (AI) training using 100% renewable energy as tech companies grapple with AI’s growing environmental impact. The Paris-based company, which claims to have amassed over 150 million downloads since its 2019 launch, is betting that eco-friendly...