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Companies are increasingly turning to model routing to make their AI systems more efficient. As Sean Michael Kerner reports for VentureBeat, this technology enables the dynamic selection of the most appropriate AI model for each query. Startup Martian has developed a large language model (LLM) router that is attracting interest from major tech companies. Accenture …
Luma AI has released an API for its video AI model Dream Machine, just hours after a similar move by competitor Runway. As Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat, the API allows developers to integrate Dream Machine into their own applications. The model can generate videos from text or images, and offers features such as camera …
Start-ups Cerebras and Groq have unveiled powerful processors for AI inference that aim to outperform Nvidia’s previously dominant GPUs. As VentureBeat reports, Cerebras’ new CS-3 chip offers 125 petaflops of processing power with 4 trillion transistors. Groq scores with an energy-efficient tensor streaming processor. Both companies are targeting the growing market for AI applications. Experts …
Slack is expanding its offering to include AI agents from third-party providers and customers. The new feature allows paying users to integrate AI agents from partners like Asana, Cohere, and Adobe, as well as their own agents, into the chat platform. Rob Seaman, Slack’s head of product, told VentureBeat that office workers are increasingly looking …
Microsoft is expanding its Office offerings with new AI features. A key innovation is “Copilot Pages”, a platform for collaborative work with AI. Users can work together on AI-generated content and enrich it with data from different sources. Microsoft describes this as an entirely new way of working that brings humans and AI together in …
AI startup 11x.ai has raised $24 million in a Series A funding round. The round was led by venture capital firm Benchmark. Founded in 2022, the company develops AI agents for process automation, which it describes as “automated digital employees”. 11x.ai focuses on sales, marketing, and revenue operations. The company is approaching $10 million in …
Runway is making its fast video generation model Gen-3 Alpha Turbo available via API. This allows companies to integrate the AI model into their own applications. As Shubham Sharma reports, Runway is one of the first companies to give developers access to a proprietary AI video generation model. The API is being rolled out in …
Apple is planning a gradual rollout of new AI features for iOS 18. According to a report by Joe Rossignol on MacRumors, the first “Apple Intelligence” features will be available with iOS 18.1 in October. More features will follow with iOS 18.2 in December, including expansion to more English-speaking countries and new tools like Image …
Microsoft has unveiled a new platform called Windows Agent Arena (WAA) to test AI assistants in realistic Windows environments. This was reported by Michael Nuñez on VentureBeat. WAA offers more than 150 different tasks in common Windows applications and allows for parallel evaluation in the Azure cloud. Microsoft also introduced a new AI agent called …
Google is adding an audio feature to its AI-powered note-taking app NotebookLM. The new “Audio Overview” allows users to get verbal explanations of complex topics from uploaded documents, as Aisha Malik reports for TechCrunch. AI-generated virtual hosts summarize the content and explain difficult concepts using metaphors. The feature is aimed at people who absorb information …