Together AI has unveiled a new platform for AI applications in private cloud environments. The system promises faster inference and lower costs for enterprises. CEO Vipul Prakash told VentureBeat that the platform can increase AI inference performance by two to three times and cut hardware requirements in half. A key feature is the flexible orchestration … Read more
A new open-source AI model called Molmo could help advance the development of AI agents. Developed by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), the model can interpret images and communicate via a chat interface. According to Wired’s Will Knight, this enables AI agents to perform tasks such as web browsing or document creation. In some … Read more
The AI tool Scramble is an extension for the Chrome browser. Once installed, you highlight the text in question, select “Scramble” from the context menu, and get suggestions for improvement. According to the project’s official GitHub page, it aims to be a more flexible and privacy-friendly alternative to Grammarly. However, the privacy argument in particular … Read more
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Tencent AI Lab have developed a new text-to-audio model called EzAudio. As Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat, EzAudio can generate high-quality sound effects from text descriptions. The model uses an innovative method for processing audio data and a new architecture called EzAudio-DiT. In tests, EzAudio outperformed existing open-source models … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Arcee AI has introduced SuperNova, a customizable language model with 70 billion parameters for enterprises. It can be used in a company’s own infrastructure and be customized, as James Thomason reports at VentureBeat. SuperNova is based on Meta’s Llama 3.1-70B Instruct architecture and uses a novel retraining process. It aims to provide an alternative to … Read more