AI company Cohere has added multimodal capabilities to its Embed 3 embedding model, allowing images to be included in RAG-based company searches. This is reported by Emilia David for VentureBeat. The new version can create embeddings for both images and text, with both formats stored in a unified database. According to Cohere, this allows companies …
Open source AI models are increasingly winning out over closed systems like GPT-4 in the enterprise. This is what Matt Marshall reports for VentureBeat after numerous conversations with executives. The open models, such as Metas Llama, have now reached comparable quality and offer enterprises more control, customization, and cost efficiency. Major technology vendors such as …
Asana, a work management platform, has introduced AI Studio, a new feature for creating AI agents for workflow management. As Alex Hood, Chief Product Officer at Asana, explained to VentureBeat, users can now integrate multiple custom AI agents directly into their workflows without any coding knowledge. The aim is to relieve employees of routine tasks, …
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 …
Appen’s 2024 State of AI Report reveals that while generative AI adoption has surged by 17%, companies face significant challenges in data quality and management, VentureBeat writes. The report, based on a survey of over 500 U.S. IT decision-makers, indicates a 10% increase in bottlenecks related to data sourcing, cleaning, and labeling. As AI models …
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 …
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 …
Nvidia has introduced a new AI model, Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct, which outperforms existing models from OpenAI and others, continuing a significant shift in its AI strategy. The model, available on Hugging Face, achieved impressive benchmark scores, positioning Nvidia as a competitive player in AI language understanding and generation. This development showcases Nvidia’s transition from a GPU manufacturer …