Verizon Communications is reportedly placing a significant bet on artificial intelligence (AI) as its next major growth driver. The company, which is the largest retail wireless carrier in the United States, believes in the potential of AI to double its network over the next five years,...
Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic has launched its AI assistant Claude in Europe. The web-based version Claude.ai, the Claude iOS app, and the subscription-based Claude Team plan that allows businesses to access the Claude 3 model family, are now available across Europe, the company said in a press release. These offerings join the Claude API, which was launched...
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) company behind the widely popular ChatGPT, announced Monday (May 13) the launch of GPT-4o — with “o” meaning “omni” — a new language model free for all users. The text, vision and audio processing improvements could boost commerce applications. “GPT-4o is much faster...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has announced a new iteration of its large language model (LLM). The new Falcon 2 includes a model with image-to-text conversion capability, the TII said in a Monday (May 13) press release. The Falcon 2 11B VLM, which is one of...
Scientists and engineers are teaching machines to think like humans, using a cutting-edge approach to artificial intelligence (AI) called deep learning. Deep learning is inspired by the intricate networks of neurons in the human brain. By creating artificial neural networks with multiple layers, researchers can...
The U.K. has debuted what it calls a landmark toolset for artificial intelligence (AI) safety testing. The new offering, announced Friday (May 10) by the country’s AI Safety Institute, is dubbed “Inspect” and is a software library that lets testers such as startups, academics and AI developers to international governments...
Artificial intelligence (AI) projects are set to comprise up to 10% of companies’ IT budgets. That’s according to a report Sunday (May 12) by Seeking Alpha, citing research by Wedbush. As the report notes, it’s a dramatic jump in AI spending, which last year accounted for...
IBM has introduced a new service that will help enterprises integrate generative artificial intelligence (AI) copilots into their organizations. Offered by IBM Consulting, the new IBM Copilot Runway will assist enterprises with creating, customizing, deploying and managing these copilots, including those powered by Copilot for Microsoft 365, the company said in a...
This week in artificial intelligence (AI) news, a company is developing AI agents that could enable more lifelike interactions between businesses and customers, and quantum computing could boost AI by applying quantum principles, potentially transforming areas like medicine and cryptography. Neuroscience Meets AI: Altera’s New...
