IBM unveils new generative AI technologies at its Think 2024 conference. It makes its powerful “Granite” models freely available. IBM wants to encourage the development and adoption of AI in the enterprise.
The recently introduced “AI Overviews” in Google Search have produced some strange results – some embarrassing, some ridiculous, some dangerous. This can be seen as an example for what various experts already know and preach: Don’t let your AI work unsupervised. For example, one of Google AI’s recommendations was that cheese sticks better to pizza …
OpenAI has received a lot of criticism in the last two weeks. The company apparently had disproportionately strict rules for employees leaving the company. For example, they are not allowed to criticize the company or else lose their valuable shares. CEO Sam Altman claims to have been unaware of this and has apologized. However, internal …
IT service provider Kyndryl and Nvidia are working together to make it easier for businesses to use generative AI. The partnership combines Nvidia’s hardware and software with Kyndryl’s expertise in implementing and scaling AI projects.
SAP is integrating Amazon’s Bedrock AI development platform into its AI Core platform to facilitate the use of generative AI for enterprises, especially in regulated industries. Bedrock gives SAP customers access to a variety of large language models.
Cohere for AI releases the Aya 23 multilingual AI models with support for 23 languages and open weights. The models outperform its predecessor, Aya 101, and other open models on a variety of tasks, enabling researchers and practitioners to further develop the multilingual models and applications.
Facebook’s parent company Meta has unveiled Chameleon, a new multimodal AI model that can process images, text, and code simultaneously. Unlike other models that use separate components for different types of data, Chameleon was designed from the ground up to handle multiple modalities.
Jolla, known for its Sailfish operating system, presents a new approach to AI assistants with Jolla Mind2. This personal server, which will be available in the fall for 699 Euros (plus monthly subscription fees), is designed to perform AI-based tasks without sending data to the cloud.
Perplexica is an open source search engine with AI support, similar to Perplexity. It provides answers with references. Once installed, it can use local language models such as Llama 3 or Mixtral.
Google is adding AI-powered features to its Chromebook Plus devices. In addition to a writing assistant and wallpaper generator, users will get easy access to Google’s Gemini chatbot. In the future, Chromebooks will also get AI-powered reading summaries, improved continuity between devices, and a focus mode.