SCRSalesforce has now officially unveiled Agentforce, a previously announced suite of AI-powered autonomous agents. These are designed to assist human employees in various business areas such as sales, marketing, commerce, and customer service. According to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Agentforce represents the “third wave” of AI, moving beyond trending models and generative AI. At the …
OpenAI currently has more than 10 million paying subscribers and 1 million customers for the higher-priced enterprise plan for ChatGPT. This is according to an email that OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap sent to employees, reports The Information. Based on this, the media outlet conservatively estimates that the startup generates $225 million in revenue per month, …
OpenAI has unveiled a new family of AI models called “o1”. It was previously known as “Project Strawberry” and had led to all kinds of speculation and high expectations. The first two versions, o1-preview and o1-mini, use a reasoning method known as “chain of thought” to solve complex tasks. This technique allows the models to …
Generative AI is increasingly producing questionable scientific papers that can be found, for example, via Google Scholar. This is the result of an analysis by Swedish researchers. They found 139 papers with evidence of covert use of ChatGPT, especially on controversial topics such as the environment and health. Most of these papers appeared in non-indexed …
Chinese startup MiniMax is making waves in the tech world with its new AI video generator. As Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat, the Alibaba- and Tencent-backed company’s tool can create stunning videos, including Star Wars battle scenes, in seconds. Filmmaker Dave Clark demonstrated the service’s capabilities in a funny little video that went viral. MiniMax …
Adobe plans to add AI-powered video generation to its Firefly software later this year. As Maxwell Zeff reports for TechCrunch, three new features – Generative Extend, Text to Video, and Image to Video – will initially be available in the beta version of Premiere Pro and on a free website. Generative Extend allows users to …
French AI startup Mistral has released its first multimodal model, Pixtral 12B. In other words, it has 12 billion parameters and can process both images and text. It is based on Mistral’s existing text model Nemo 12B and is said to be able to answer questions about any number of images of any size. Pixtral …
OpenAI’s mysterious “Strawberry” project could see the light of day in the next two weeks. This is according to a report by The Information. Market observers had high expectations. However, the information that has now become public has cooled the enthusiasm considerably. According to the report, Strawberry is a pure text model and specializes in …
Smartcat, a provider of AI-powered translation tools, has raised $43 million in a Series C funding round. The Boston-based company provides companies with tools and services to translate written and spoken content into around 280 languages. As founder and CEO Ivan Smolnikov told TechCrunch, Smartcat uses a “matching engine” to select appropriate AI models for …
Anthropic is introducing “Workspaces”, a new feature for managing AI systems in enterprises. The startup enables the creation and control of multiple isolated environments for Claude AI implementations, Michael Nuñez reports on VentureBeat. Companies can now set spending and usage limits, group API keys, and control access through user roles. The feature addresses key challenges …