A recent study by Lakera’s team demonstrates how GPT-4V can be manipulated through visual prompt injection attacks. As detailed by author Daniel Timbrell in his article, these attacks involve embedding text instructions within images to make AI models ignore their original programming or perform unintended actions. During Lakera’s internal hackathon, researchers successfully tested several methods, …
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems are being improved through the integration of AI agents, according to an analysis by Shubham Sharma for VentureBeat. While traditional RAG systems combine data retrieval with language models to provide contextual answers, they are limited to single knowledge sources. The new “agentic RAG” approach incorporates AI agents that can access multiple …
Box has unveiled two major AI-focused products: Box AI Studio for creating custom AI agents and Box Apps for building no-code enterprise applications. CEO Aaron Levie announced these tools at the BoxWorks event as part of the company’s expansion from file sharing into intelligent content management, VentureBeat reports. Box AI Studio, built on partnerships with …
Mistral AI, a French artificial intelligence startup, has released a new content moderation API capable of detecting harmful content across nine categories in 11 languages. The API, powered by Mistral’s fine-tuned Ministral 8B model, offers both raw text and conversational content analysis, as reported by Michael Nuñez for VentureBeat. This launch positions Mistral to compete …
Microsoft has released Magentic-One, a new open-source infrastructure that enables a single AI model to manage multiple helper agents working together to complete complex, multi-step tasks in various scenarios. According to a paper by Microsoft researchers, Magentic-One is a generalist agentic system that can “fully realize the long-held vision of agentic systems that can enhance …
Patronus AI, a San Francisco startup, has launched a self-serve API that detects and prevents AI failures, such as hallucinations and unsafe responses, in real-time. According to CEO Anand Kannappan in an interview with VentureBeat, the platform introduces several innovations, including “judge evaluators” that allow companies to create custom rules in plain English and Lynx, …
Google has introduced “Grounding with Google Search” for its Gemini AI platform, allowing developers to enhance their AI applications with current information from Google Search. As reported by VentureBeat’s Michael Nuñez, the service launched just hours before OpenAI’s consumer-focused ChatGPT Search. Google’s offering targets developers and costs $35 per 1,000 queries, while OpenAI’s service is …
OpenAI has updated its Realtime API, currently in beta, with five new expressive voices for speech-to-speech applications and reduced costs for developers by introducing prompt caching. According to OpenAI’s API documentation cited in an article by VentureBeat, the native speech-to-speech feature enables low latency and nuanced output. The company showcased three of the new voices …
Amphion is an open-source toolkit designed to support research and development in audio, music and speech generation. According to the project’s GitHub site, it offers unique visualizations of classic models and architectures to help junior researchers and engineers better understand them. The toolkit supports various individual generation tasks such as text-to-speech (TTS), singing voice synthesis …
Cerebras has announced a major update to its Cerebras Inference platform, which now runs the Llama 3.1-70B language model at an impressive 2,100 tokens per second – a threefold performance increase compared to the previous release. According to James Wang from the official Cerebras blog, this performance is 16 times faster than the fastest GPU …