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Airtable’s new AI platform transforms workplace productivity
Airtable's AI-powered enterprise platform: Airtable has launched new capabilities that transform its collaborative app-building platform into an enterprise-grade AI solution, aiming to help companies deploy AI into critical business workflows at scale. The San Francisco-based company introduced App Library, which allows organizations to create standardized AI-powered applications that can be customized across different departments. HyperDB, another new feature, enables integration of massive datasets of over 100 million records from systems like Snowflake and Salesforce. Airtable's platform is already used by major media, retail, and financial services companies to power critical operations. Addressing the AI deployment challenge: Airtable's move comes as...
read Sep 26, 2024Meta’s new Llama AI model can now see and run on your device
Llama 3.2 Introduces Multimodal and On-Device Models: Meta's latest update to its Llama language model series brings significant advancements in AI capabilities, including vision processing and compact on-device models. Key Features and Enhancements: The Llama 3.2 release incorporates new multimodal vision models and smaller language models optimized for on-device applications, expanding the versatility and accessibility of AI technologies. Two sizes of vision models (11B and 90B parameters) are now available, each with base and instruction-tuned variants, enabling the processing of both text and images in tandem. New 1B and 3B parameter text-only models have been introduced, designed specifically for on-device...
read Sep 26, 2024Meta’s Llama Stack simplifies AI adoption for enterprises
Meta's Llama Stack revolutionizes enterprise AI adoption: Meta has launched Llama Stack distributions, a comprehensive suite of tools designed to simplify AI deployment across various computing environments, marking a significant step in making advanced AI capabilities more accessible to businesses of all sizes. The announcement was made at Meta's annual Connect developer conference, alongside the release of new Llama 3.2 models. Llama Stack introduces a standardized API for model customization and deployment, addressing the complexity of integrating AI systems into existing IT infrastructures. The suite provides a unified interface for tasks such as fine-tuning, synthetic data generation, and agentic application...
read Sep 25, 2024Meta AI Voice challenges ChatGPT with celebrity-voiced assistant
Meta's AI voice assistant breakthrough: Meta has announced a new voice-enabled AI assistant featuring celebrity voices, positioning itself as a strong competitor to ChatGPT and Google's Gemini Live in the generative AI space. The new Meta AI voice feature will be available across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, rolling out this week in the U.S. and other English-speaking markets. Users can choose from a range of celebrity voices, including Dame Judi Dench, John Cena, Kristen Bell, Awkwafina, and Keegan-Michael Key, or opt for more generic voices. Meta has signed formal agreements with the actors to avoid legal issues and ensure an...
read Sep 25, 2024Meta unveils 6 game-changing AI and VR innovations
Meta Connect 2024 unveils groundbreaking AR and AI innovations: The annual event showcased Meta's latest advancements in augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality technologies, emphasizing the company's commitment to shaping the future of human-computer interaction. Orion AR glasses prototype steals the show: Meta revealed its first fully holographic augmented reality glasses, marking a significant leap in wearable technology. The Orion glasses feature a sleek design similar to traditional eyewear but with advanced technology packed inside. A new display architecture enables fully see-through lenses, allowing users to view digital overlays in their real-world environment. Control is achieved through neural-network-based hand...
read Sep 25, 2024How Intuit is using agentic AI to automate complex business tasks
Advancing business automation with agentic AI: Intuit has announced significant enhancements to its Generative AI Operating System (GenOS), introducing agentic AI workflows to improve its AI and data capabilities across its suite of business tools. The company's multi-year journey to integrate AI capabilities has led to the development of Intuit Assist, an AI assistant powered by the GenOS platform. Intuit's new agentic AI features, currently in testing, are scheduled for end-user launch in mid-2025. The GenOS framework is being expanded with enhanced security, usability, and functions to enable agentic AI workflows. Practical applications for real-world business challenges: Intuit is focusing...
read Sep 25, 2024Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses to gain 4 AI-powered features — and memory
Meta unveils groundbreaking features for Ray-Ban smart glasses: Meta's latest update to their Ray-Ban smart glasses introduces innovative AI-powered capabilities, enhancing user experience and accessibility. Multimodal AI integration: The smart glasses now leverage advanced multimodal AI technology, allowing for more natural and intuitive interactions with the device. Users can now engage with the AI assistant without using the "Hey Meta" wake phrase, enabling seamless conversation and queries about their surroundings. The glasses can analyze visual and auditory input in real-time, providing context-aware responses to user inquiries. This enhancement allows users to ask questions about objects or situations they encounter without...
read Sep 25, 2024HP makes bold claims about new AI features but can it back them up?
AI-driven innovations at HP Imagine 2024: HP unveiled a range of AI-based technologies and devices set to launch in 2024 and 2025, aiming to transform the relationship between workers and their work environments. The OmniBook Ultra Flip, a lightweight 2-in-1 AI laptop, was introduced as a flexible solution for modern workers. HP announced the EliteBook X, marketed as the "most powerful" AI PC with superior AI performance capabilities. Additional tools presented include HP Print AI, Perfect Output, Cyberlink, HP Gen AI Lab, HP Wolf Security, and a new HP app designed to connect all HP devices. Research-backed approach to AI...
read Sep 25, 2024The best open-source AI model yet is purpose built for AI agents
Breakthrough in open-source AI: The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has unveiled Multimodal Open Language Model (Molmo), a groundbreaking open-source AI model that combines image interpretation and conversational abilities, potentially revolutionizing AI agent development. Key capabilities and features: Molmo represents a significant advancement in open-source AI technology, offering a range of functionalities that were previously limited to proprietary models. The model can interpret images and engage in chat-based conversations, making it suitable for a variety of AI agent applications. Molmo is designed to assist AI agents in performing complex tasks such as web browsing, file navigation, and document drafting. Unlike...
read Sep 25, 2024Google Cloud gives Contact Center AI a new name and AI makeover
Google Cloud revamps contact center offering with AI: Google Cloud has rebranded its Contact Center AI platform as Customer Engagement Suite with Google AI, integrating advanced generative AI capabilities including Gemini 1.5 Flash. Key features of the new platform: The Customer Engagement Suite builds upon the existing Contact Center AI offering, enhancing it with powerful AI-driven tools to improve customer service efficiency and effectiveness. Hybrid virtual agents combine rule-based deterministic control with Gemini's adaptive generative AI capabilities, grounded in organization-specific datasets. Advanced Agent Assist features include generative knowledge assist, real-time coaching, smart replies, automatic call summarization, and live bi-directional translation...
read Sep 25, 2024Kai is a new AI that will help you manage your team’s iPhones
AI-powered device management for Apple fleets: Kandji, a leading Apple device management vendor, has introduced Kai, an innovative AI-powered assistant designed to improve the management of Apple devices in corporate settings. Key features and benefits: Kai aims to provide IT teams with instant reporting insights through natural language queries, significantly improving workflow efficiency and enabling more strategic use of time. Kai builds upon Kandji's existing Prism tool, transforming traditional filter-based queries into natural language interactions. The system allows IT professionals of all skill levels to quickly retrieve device data by asking simple questions like, "Which devices have Zoom installed?" This...
read Sep 25, 2024Google Earth unveils time travel feature as Maps gets major overhaul
Google Earth and Maps receive major updates: Google has announced significant enhancements to Google Earth and Google Maps, aimed at improving user experience and image quality. Historical imagery comes to Google Earth: Users can now explore Google's extensive satellite and aerial imagery library, dating back up to 80 years. The feature showcases changes over time in cities like London, Berlin, Warsaw, and Paris, with some imagery dating back to the 1930s. Google Earth's home screen has been redesigned to facilitate easier collaboration for researchers and organizations working on projects. Street View expansion: Google Maps is launching one of its biggest...
read Sep 25, 2024How Harness is Accelerating Enterprise Software Development with AI Agents
AI-powered software development acceleration: Harness, a software development firm, has unveiled a significant platform update that integrates generative AI throughout the enterprise software development and delivery process. The update aims to streamline and automate various aspects of the software development lifecycle, moving beyond just code generation to address the entire process. Harness, founded in 2017, has evolved from focusing on CI/CD automation to becoming a comprehensive software delivery platform. Key AI agents introduced: The platform update includes several AI agents designed to enhance different stages of the software development process. AI DevOps Engineer (ADE): An advanced agent that can perform...
read Sep 25, 2024Rabbit Launches Beta Version of New Large Action Model
Rabbit R1's new LAM playground: Rabbit has launched a beta version of its next-generation Large Action Model (LAM) playground, aiming to deliver on its initial promises for the Rabbit R1 device. The company has released 16 over-the-air updates since the R1's launch, addressing bugs and adding new features. The new LAM playground, set to launch in beta on October 1, represents a significant step towards fulfilling the company's original vision. How the new LAM playground works: The system operates as a Generic Website Agent, capable of performing tasks through text prompts or natural language requests to the Rabbit R1. Users...
read Sep 25, 2024Figma Relaunches AI Design Tool Previously Pulled for Copying Apple
AI-powered design tool relaunches with new features: Figma's generative AI tool for app design, previously called Make Designs, is returning as First Draft after being temporarily removed due to concerns about copying existing designs. The tool was initially pulled after users demonstrated its ability to create designs closely resembling Apple's iPhone weather app, despite Figma's assurance that it wasn't trained on customer data. First Draft is currently available in a limited beta, along with Figma's other AI features. The relaunch includes new options for designers, allowing them to choose from four libraries depending on their specific needs and desired level...
read Sep 25, 2024AI2’s New Small Open-Source Model Performs as Well as Big Ones
Groundbreaking open-source AI model challenges industry giants: The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2) has unveiled Molmo, a family of open-source multimodal language models that rival the performance of proprietary models from leading tech companies. Ai2 claims its largest Molmo model, with 72 billion parameters, outperforms OpenAI's GPT-4o in tests measuring image, chart, and document understanding. A smaller Molmo model with just 7 billion parameters reportedly approaches the performance of OpenAI's state-of-the-art model, highlighting Ai2's efficient data collection and training methods. Key innovations in data curation and training: Molmo's impressive performance stems from a novel approach to data collection and...
read Sep 25, 2024ElevenLabs to Add Deepak Chopra Voice to Its Voice Library
AI-powered audio innovation: Deepak Chopra, renowned author and wellness expert, has partnered with AI firm ElevenLabs to add his voice to their roster of notable voices for audio streaming of written content. The collaboration stems from the "Digital Deepak" chatbot app launched in June, which uses AI to answer questions in Chopra's synthetic voice based on his extensive body of work. ElevenLabs has gained attention in the entertainment industry for partnerships with estates of celebrities like Judy Garland and James Dean, allowing users to hear books and articles read in iconic voices. This development coincides with OpenAI's introduction of new...
read Sep 25, 2024HP Says Pressing CTRL+P Will Soon Trigger an AI Print Chatbot
AI-driven printing revolution: HP is set to transform the printing experience with its new HP Print AI program, integrating artificial intelligence directly into the printing process. HP unveiled plans to incorporate a chatbot into its printer software drivers, making it accessible when users press CTRL+P to print documents. The AI-powered system promises to optimize web content and documents for printing, removing clutter and improving formatting automatically. Initially available as a plug-in for Chrome and Microsoft Office, HP aims to eventually integrate Print AI directly into printer drivers. Key features and functionality: HP Print AI offers enhanced capabilities beyond traditional printing...
read Sep 25, 2024YouTube Debuts AI Chatbot for Premium Android Users
YouTube introduces AI chatbot for video inquiries: YouTube is rolling out an AI-powered chatbot feature for Android Premium subscribers, enabling users to ask questions and receive information about videos without watching them in full. The chatbot, likely powered by Google's Gemini AI models, can summarize video content and provide detailed information on specific aspects of videos. Users can access the chatbot through a card in the comments section of the YouTube app, allowing for text-based interactions about the video being viewed. The feature aims to enhance user experience by offering quick access to video information and potentially reducing the need...
read Sep 25, 2024Microsoft Unveils New AI Tool to Detect and Correct AI Errors
Microsoft introduces AI inaccuracy correction tool: Microsoft has launched a new feature called "correction" as part of its Azure AI Studio, designed to automatically detect and rewrite incorrect content in AI outputs. Key features of the correction tool: The system scans and identifies inaccuracies by comparing AI output with a customer's source material It highlights mistakes, provides information about why they're incorrect, and rewrites the content The process occurs before the user sees the inaccuracy, aiming to prevent the spread of misinformation How it works: The correction feature uses small and large language models to align outputs with grounding documents...
read Sep 25, 2024Wear OS 5, AI Features Coming to Older Pixel Watches – Here’s How to Update
Pixel Watch update introduces Wear OS 5: Google is rolling out a significant update to the original Pixel Watch and Pixel Watch 2, bringing Wear OS 5 and several new features to enhance user experience and functionality. Key features of the update: A new grid-based app launcher is being introduced, offering a more efficient way to navigate apps Users can still opt for the traditional list-based launcher through system settings Health Services now supports additional running data types, including Ground Contact Time and Stride Length The AI-powered Recorder app from the Pixel Watch 3 is being added, featuring automatic transcription...
read Sep 24, 2024How Wolters Kluwer is Bringing AI to Electronic Health Records
Revolutionizing clinical decision support: Wolters Kluwer Health is integrating its popular UpToDate tool into electronic health records (EHRs) through Wellsheet's AI-powered interface, aiming to streamline doctors' access to critical medical information. Concord Hospital Health System in New Hampshire will be the first to pilot this integration, combining UpToDate's trusted clinical content with Wellsheet's EHR-embedded interface. The integration aims to provide physicians with contextually relevant information directly within their workflow, potentially reducing cognitive burden and improving efficiency. UpToDate, with over 3 million users worldwide, is one of the most widely used knowledge resources for healthcare professionals, offering curated and vetted clinical...
read Sep 24, 2024How to Build Your Own Custom AI Voice Agent
AI-powered voice assistants become more customizable: Supernormal's new Voice Agents platform allows users to create personalized AI voice assistants quickly and easily, expanding the role of AI in daily workflows. Supernormal, an AI notetaking platform, launched Voice Agents on Monday, enabling users to design custom AI voice assistants in under two minutes. The platform allows for extensive customization, including naming, function, prompts, personality type, voice selection, and talking style. These AI agents can handle calls autonomously and integrate with popular meeting software like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. Key features and capabilities: Voice Agents offers a range of functionalities...
read Sep 24, 2024Gemini AI is Coming to Google TV Ecosystem
Google TV's Major Update: Google is rolling out significant new features to its Google TV ecosystem, enhancing smart home integration, AI capabilities, and content discovery options across all devices. Home Panel Integration: Google TV is introducing a new Home Panel feature, expanding smart home control capabilities directly from the TV interface. The Home Panel appears as a new Tile in Quick Settings, opening as a feed on the right side of the screen. It mirrors the Favorites tab from the Google Home app, displaying controls for lights, cameras, speakers, thermostats, and other smart home devices. Users can access additional controls...
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