Ai Assistant news and trends

Why Open Source Models Could Be the Future of AI
artificial intelligence // March 19, 2024

Elon Musk’s xAI is open-sourcing its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Grok, in a move that some say could democratize AI technology and foster innovation in commercial applications. The company has released the data for Grok to X Premium+ subscribers through GitHub and BitTorrent. This open release...

Adobe Launches AI Assistant for Reader and Acrobat for Faster Information Processing
Artificial Intelligence // February 20, 2024

Adobe is introducing AI Assistant, a new generative artificial intelligence-powered conversational engine for Reader and Acrobat. Still in beta mode, AI Assistant instantly creates summaries and insights from long documents. The model is also able to answer questions and format data for sharing in emails,...

GitHub Expands Availability of AI Assistant Designed for Developers
artificial intelligence // December 29, 2023

GitHub has made Copilot Chat generally available for organizations and individuals, allowing GitHub Copilot users to benefit from natural language-powered coding at no additional cost. As part of GitHub’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered developer platform, Copilot Chat “enables the rise of natural language as the new...

Report: Microsoft’s AI Copilot Could Add $10 Billion to Its Yearly Revenue
artificial intelligence // November 01, 2023

A new Microsoft artificial intelligence (AI) product could become a major revenue driver for the tech giant. The company Wednesday (Nov. 1) began selling its Microsoft 365 Copilot AI for its Office app business subscribers after launching a commercial version in September. And with the feature costing $30 per...

Interviews & Exclusives
Facebook Messenger 2.0: Lotsa Bots

April 19, 2017
Innovator, entrepreneur and architect of “the greatest show on Earth” P.T. Barnum famously said, “There is no such thing as bad publicity.” This week, going into its F8 conference — Facebook’s annual in-house version of the greatest show on earth for its developers — the world got a bit of counterevidence, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg did have […]

Voice-Activated Tracker: Google Home Gets Personal

April 18, 2017
Ready or not, here they come … marketers, that is. Everyone’s itching to get on the smart speaker monetization train. Burger King — rather than wait for Google to roll out...

Quick Reads
Expedia Unveils AI Assistant to Help With Travel Planning

May 14, 2024
Expedia Group has unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant designed to help travelers plan their trip. The new AI assistant, Romie, can help with planning, shopping, booking and making changes during a trip, the global travel platform said in a Tuesday (May 14) press release. Romie is in alpha version and is available on the company’s hub for experimental products, […]

Adobe Launches AI Assistant for Reader and Acrobat for Faster Information Processing

February 20, 2024
Adobe is introducing AI Assistant, a new generative artificial intelligence-powered conversational engine for Reader and Acrobat. Still in beta mode, AI Assistant instantly creates summaries and insights from long documents....

GitHub Expands Availability of AI Assistant Designed for Developers

December 29, 2023
GitHub has made Copilot Chat generally available for organizations and individuals, allowing GitHub Copilot users to benefit from natural language-powered coding at no additional cost. As part of GitHub’s artificial...

Report: Microsoft’s AI Copilot Could Add $10 Billion to Its Yearly Revenue

November 01, 2023
A new Microsoft artificial intelligence (AI) product could become a major revenue driver for the tech giant. The company Wednesday (Nov. 1) began selling its Microsoft 365 Copilot AI for its Office app business...