SCRSlack is implementing Salesforce’s Agentforce AI agents into its collaboration platform to enhance workplace productivity. According to Michael Nuñez at VentureBeat, the integration will give AI agents access to organizational conversations and data within Slack channels. Rob Seaman, Slack’s chief product officer, emphasized that the system will provide AI agents with contextual knowledge, reasoning capabilities, …
Google has introduced a new AI image generation tool called Whisk that enables users to create images using existing images as prompts rather than text descriptions. According to Jay Peters from The Verge, the tool allows users to specify subject, scene, and style through image inputs or Google-suggested examples. Users can refine generated images through …
OpenAI has announced that its ChatGPT Search feature is now accessible to all users with a free account, expanding beyond its previous limitation to paid subscribers. The company revealed this change during its “12 Days of OpenAI” event series, marking a significant shift in its service accessibility. Users can activate the search function by clicking …
AI company Cohere has introduced Command R7B, a new compact language model designed for enterprise applications. According to VentureBeat reporter Taryn Plumb, the model supports 23 languages and specializes in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Command R7B outperforms similar-sized models from competitors like Google, Meta, and Mistral in mathematics and coding tasks. The model features a 128K …
OpenAI has launched a new organizational feature called Projects for its ChatGPT platform, currently available to Plus, Pro, and Teams subscribers. The tool allows users to group related conversations, files, and instructions within dedicated spaces, addressing the common challenge of managing multiple AI interactions. The Projects feature appears in ChatGPT’s sidebar, where users can create …
Tokyo-based startup Sakana AI has created a breakthrough technique that reduces memory usage in large language models by up to 75%. As reported by Ben Dickson, the system called “universal transformer memory” uses neural attention memory modules (NAMMs) to efficiently manage information processing. These modules analyze the model’s attention layers to determine which information to …
Lambda, a San Francisco-based technology company, has introduced a new AI inference API service that promises the lowest costs in the industry. According to VentureBeat reporter Carl Franzen, the service allows enterprises to deploy AI models without managing computing infrastructure. The API supports various advanced models including Meta’s Llama 3.3 and Alibaba’s Qwen 2.5, with …
Meta has introduced a new open-source tool called Video Seal that adds invisible watermarks to AI-generated videos. According to Kyle Wiggers from TechCrunch, this development comes as deepfakes have increased fourfold worldwide from 2023 to 2024. The tool can embed hidden messages within videos to track their origins and is designed to withstand common editing …
Midjourney has launched Patchwork, a new web-based collaborative worldbuilding platform for creative storytelling. According to Carl Franzen’s report in VentureBeat, the tool allows multiple users to create and develop digital worlds together in real-time. Max Kreminski, leader of Midjourney’s Storytelling Lab, demonstrated how users can generate characters, events, places, and AI-generated images on an infinite …
Harvard University has launched a comprehensive AI training dataset containing nearly one million public domain books. According to technology journalist Kate Knibbs writing for Wired, the project is funded by Microsoft and OpenAI. The Institutional Data Initiative leads this effort to democratize access to high-quality training data for AI development. The collection, which is five …