Salesforce presents its vision for autonomous AI agents at Dreamforce 2024. CEO Marc Benioff explains that these agents will replace existing copilots and be based on a standardized platform. The company is focusing on its Agentforce product, which will deploy AI agents across various cloud services, writes Larry Dignan. The Salesforce platform and the Data …
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 …
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 …
Companies can achieve significant cost savings by building their own conversational AI based on the open source model Llama 3. This is the result of an analysis by Sam Oliver, founder of OpenFi, published on VentureBeat. According to Oliver, an average conversation with Llama 3 costs about $0.08, while the same conversation with OpenAI’s GPT-4 …
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 …
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 …
ServiceNow is introducing a library of customizable AI agents for businesses. The company is planning updates to its Now Assist AI platform that will allow customers to integrate AI agents into their workflows. As Emilia David reports for VentureBeat, companies can use the new Now Assist Skill Kit to develop their own prompts and skills …
DigitalEx, a provider of cloud cost management software, has launched a new solution for controlling the costs of generative AI. The tool provides organizations with a centralized view of AI-related costs across multiple platforms, including AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, and OpenAI. As CEO Sundeep Goel told VentureBeat, the solution enables detailed cost allocation, financial management, …
Hugging Face has introduced LightEval, a new open source solution for evaluating large language models (LLMs). This was reported by Michael Nuñez on VentureBeat. The lightweight suite allows companies and researchers to evaluate AI models in a precise and customizable way. LightEval integrates seamlessly with existing Hugging Face tools and supports multiple devices including CPUs, …