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Startup CrewAI is launching “CrewAI Enterprise,” a new platform that allows companies to create and deploy teams of AI agents. As founder João Moura told VentureBeat, the system greatly simplifies the creation and deployment of multi-agent systems. The platform is based on CrewAI’s popular open source framework and allows users to develop AI agents with …
Genmo has launched Mochi 1, an open-source AI model for generating high-quality videos from text prompts. You can try it for free on this page. According to VentureBeat, Genmo is claiming performance that rivals leading proprietary models like Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha and Luma AI’s Dream Machine. Available under the Apache 2.0 license, Mochi 1 allows …
Qualcomm has unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite, which the company claims is the world’s fastest mobile CPU. The chipset features Qualcomm’s second-generation Oryon CPU and is said to usher in a new era of on-device AI. As Dean Takahashi reports for VentureBeat, the processor enables complex multimodal AI applications directly on the smartphone, with a …
The AI image generation software ComfyUI has been released in version 1.0 and now offers a desktop version for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Background: ComfyUI allows you to implement complex image generation pipelines directly on your own computer. Unlike cloud-based solutions, the software provides full control over the process and your own data. The brand …
Microsoft unveils new autonomous AI agents for its Dynamics 365 business applications, Todd Bishop reports for GeekWire. These agents are designed to autonomously complete tasks and oversee business processes. The announcement came during Microsoft’s “AI Tour” stop in London. Microsoft describes the agents as functioning like new apps in an AI-powered world, working on behalf …
IBM has launched its Granite 3.0 large language models (LLMs), expanding its enterprise AI offerings, Sean Michael Kerner reports for VentureBeat. The new open-source models, available under the Apache 2.0 license, are designed for various enterprise applications, including customer service, IT automation, and cybersecurity. IBM claims the models outperform competitors like Google and Anthropic, having …
Meta has launched Spirit LM, its first Spirit LM is Meta’s first freely available multimodal language model that integrates text and speech inputs and outputs, positioning it as a competitor to models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o. Developed by Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team, Spirit LM aims to enhance AI voice experiences by improving speech generation’s …
H2O.ai has unveiled two new vision-language models, H2OVL Mississippi-2B and H2OVL Mississippi-0.8B, aimed at enhancing document analysis and optical character recognition (OCR) tasks. Despite their smaller size, these models demonstrate competitive performance against larger models from major tech companies, with the 0.8B model excelling in the OCRBench Text Recognition task. CEO Sri Ambati emphasized that …
Perplexity has launched an Internal Knowledge Search feature that allows Pro and Enterprise Pro users to search both their internal files and the web from a single platform. Users can upload important files, limited to 500 for Enterprise Pro, in various formats like Excel, Word, and PDFs, VentureBeat reports. The aim is to streamline the …
OpenAI has launched a Windows desktop application for ChatGPT, enhancing its integration into daily workflows and productivity. This release follows a similar app for macOS and is currently available to select subscribers, VentureBeat reports. The app allows users to access ChatGPT easily via a keyboard shortcut, aiming to streamline user experience without the need for …