News/Partnerships
GE HealthCare and AWS Partner to Bring Generative AI to Medical Diagnostics
GE HealthCare partners with AWS to develop generative AI for medical diagnostics: GE HealthCare has signed a strategic collaboration with AWS to leverage cloud computing and generative AI to improve medical diagnostics and streamline clinical workflows. AWS to be GE HealthCare's preferred cloud provider: The partnership will see GE HealthCare use AWS's cloud solutions as its preferred provider for developing specialized generative AI applications to enhance patient care. GE HealthCare plans to use Amazon's Bedrock platform to develop AI applications based on multimodal clinical and operational data. The company's developers will utilize AWS' AI-powered software development assistant Q Developer for...
read Jul 25, 2024Salesforce and Workday Join Forces to Give Enterprise AI Software a Big Upgrade
The partnership between Salesforce and Workday aims to give enterprise software a significant boost by integrating advanced AI capabilities and unified data across customer relationship management, human resources, and finance. AI-powered employee service agents: The collaboration introduces an AI-driven employee service agent built on Salesforce's AgentForce platform, which will automate tasks like onboarding, benefits management, and career development by leveraging data from both companies. The virtual assistant will seamlessly handoff tasks and transfer knowledge between AI and human agents, providing an integrated user experience. Unified data foundation: Workday joins Salesforce's "zero-copy" partner network, enabling seamless data access between the two...
read Jul 24, 2024Reddit Blocks Search Engines, AI Bots as Google Retains Exclusive Access Through Deal
Reddit is ramping up its efforts to protect its data and generate revenue by blocking search engines and AI bots from accessing recent posts and comments unless they pay for access. Google's exclusive access: Google is currently the only mainstream search engine showing recent Reddit results due to a $60 million deal allowing the company to train its AI models using Reddit's content: Other search engines like Bing and DuckDuckGo are excluded, leaving Google as the sole provider of up-to-date Reddit search results. This move comes after Reddit threatened to cut off Google's access if the company continued using the...
read Jul 21, 2024Top Tech Giants Unite to Establish Unified AI Security Standards
A coalition of top tech companies has formed to develop unified cybersecurity and safety standards for artificial intelligence (AI) tools, aiming to ensure consistent and rigorous security practices across the industry. Key objectives: The Coalition For Secure AI, announced by Google during the Aspen Security Forum, will focus on establishing industry-wide standards and best practices for AI security: The coalition's initial priorities include developing standards for software supply chain security in AI systems, compiling resources to assess AI risks, and creating a framework to guide the most effective use cases for AI in cybersecurity. By working together, the participating companies...
read Jul 19, 2024Google’s AI Takes Center Stage at 2024 Paris Olympics with NBCUniversal Partnership
Google's AI technologies take center stage at the 2024 Paris Olympics, as the company becomes the "official AI sponsor for Team USA" in a partnership with NBCUniversal that will prominently feature Google's AI-powered features during the broadcast. Key AI integrations: Google's AI tools will be woven into various aspects of the Olympic coverage, providing an immersive and informative viewing experience: Google Maps' 3D Immersive Views will showcase photorealistic models of iconic Olympic venues like Versailles, Stade Roland Garros, and the Aquatics Centre, along with event details for each location. Announcers and commentators will incorporate Google Search AI Overviews into broadcast...
read Jul 19, 2024Mistral AI and NVIDIA Unveil Cutting-Edge Enterprise AI Model
Mistral AI and NVIDIA have unveiled a cutting-edge enterprise AI model, Mistral NeMo 12B, that offers unprecedented accuracy, flexibility, and efficiency for diverse applications like chatbots, multilingual tasks, coding, and summarization. Key features and capabilities: Mistral NeMo 12B excels in multi-turn conversations, math, common sense reasoning, world knowledge, and coding, delivering precise and reliable performance across various tasks: With a 128K context length, the model can process extensive and complex information more coherently and accurately, ensuring contextually relevant outputs. The model uses the FP8 data format for inference, reducing memory size and speeding up deployment without sacrificing accuracy. Mistral NeMo...
read Jul 19, 2024OpenAI Pursues Custom AI Chips, Threatening Nvidia’s Dominance in the Market
OpenAI, the leading artificial intelligence company, is exploring the development of its own AI chips to bolster its supply chain and reduce reliance on Nvidia. Discussions with chip designers: OpenAI is in talks with Broadcom and other semiconductor designers about creating a custom AI chip: The company aims to address shortages in its supply chain and decrease dependency on Nvidia, which has been a key supplier of AI chips for OpenAI's advanced language models. OpenAI has also hired former Google chip staffers to support its chip development efforts, signaling a serious commitment to pursuing this initiative. Previous plans for chip...
read Jul 19, 2024Tech Giants Unite to Tackle AI Security Risks and Promote Responsible Development
The major tech companies are teaming up to promote AI security through shared best practices and tools, highlighting the growing importance of addressing risks as AI becomes more prevalent. Key players join forces: Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, and others are forming the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) to collaborate on AI security: The initiative aims to provide open-source methodologies, frameworks, and tools to address the "fragmented landscape of AI security." Other notable members include IBM, PayPal, Cisco, and Anthropic, demonstrating the broad industry support for this effort. Addressing AI challenges: CoSAI will focus on three initial goals to...
read Jul 18, 2024Meta Eyes Multi-Billion Dollar Investment in Smart Glasses Partner EssilorLuxottica
The Financial Times reports that Meta is considering investing billions into EssilorLuxottica, the eyewear giant behind Ray-Ban and many other brands, to further their partnership in smart glasses. Key points: Meta and EssilorLuxottica previously partnered on Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which were released last year and now support multimodal AI to identify what wearers are seeing. The AI-powered glasses sold more in a few months than the previous non-AI pair did in two years, according to EssilorLuxottica's CEO. Deeper partnership: Meta's potential multi-billion dollar investment in EssilorLuxottica suggests the tech giant sees significant potential in the smart glasses market and...
read Jul 18, 2024Arrcus Secures $30M for AI-Driven Distributed Networking, Partners with Nvidia
Arrcus, a hyperscale networking software and infrastructure company, has raised $30 million from investors including Nvidia, Prosperity7 Ventures, Hitachi Ventures, General Catalyst, Liberty Global, Lightspeed, and Clear Ventures, bringing its total funding to $154 million. Addressing the need for efficient distributed networking: Arrcus aims to improve the efficiency of compute infrastructure by providing distributed networking solutions for data centers, edge computing, and multi-cloud environments: The company's Arrcus Connected Edge (ACE) platform features a flexible, high-performance, and scalable distributed microservices architecture that enables a wide range of use cases. ACE is deployable on various form factors, including data processing units (DPUs),...
read Jul 17, 2024Cohere and Fujitsu Partner to Bring Localized AI Solutions to Japanese Enterprises
Cohere, a Canadian AI startup, has partnered with Japanese tech giant Fujitsu to develop large language models (LLMs) and AI solutions tailored for the Japanese market, aiming to empower local enterprises with advanced natural language processing capabilities. Key details of the partnership: Cohere will provide its cutting-edge AI models, while Fujitsu will leverage its expertise in Japanese language training and fine-tuning technologies to create enterprise-ready solutions: The collaboration will debut an LLM tentatively named 'Takane' (meaning 'mountain peak' in English), based on Cohere's enterprise-grade Command R+ model, which offers best-in-class retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), multilingual coverage, and a powerful Tool Use...
read Jul 15, 2024HP’s AI-Powered Computers Raise the Bar for PC Performance
AMD and HP team up on powerful new OmniBook Ultra laptop: AMD has partnered with HP to develop a custom Ryzen AI 300-series processor with a boosted Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for HP's latest flagship laptop, the OmniBook Ultra: The custom AMD chip is rated for 55 trillion operations per second (TOPS) of AI performance, a significant increase over AMD's recently announced 50 TOPS Ryzen AI 300-series processors. This makes the OmniBook Ultra the "world's fastest AI PC" for now, with HP claiming a 44% AI performance advantage over Apple's M4 chip and 3x faster response times in AI chatbots....
read Jul 12, 2024The Atlantic Embraces AI, and Partnership with OpenAI
The Atlantic signed a deal with OpenAI to help shape the future of AI in a way that benefits serious journalism. While the deal has sparked some criticism, The Atlantic's CEO Nicholas Thompson believes it's important for media companies to engage with AI and try to steer its development in a positive direction. Key aspects of The Atlantic's deal with OpenAI: The multi-part agreement allows OpenAI to train on The Atlantic's data for two years, provides The Atlantic with credits to use OpenAI's tools, and will include The Atlantic's content in OpenAI's forthcoming search product: The Atlantic will have some...
read Jul 12, 2024Japan is Building a $1B AI Supercomputer with NVIDIA
The Japan National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) is significantly enhancing its AI research capabilities with the development of the AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure 3.0 supercomputer (ABCI 3.0), powered by NVIDIA H200 GPUs and Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. Advancing Japan's AI sovereignty and competitiveness: AIST, one of Japan's largest public research organizations, is upgrading to ABCI 3.0 to bolster the country's AI research and development capabilities: The initiative is part of a $1 billion investment by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) to strengthen computing resources and support cloud AI computing. ABCI 3.0 aims to enhance...
read Jul 11, 2024Google and Samsung Partner to Bring Advanced AI to Galaxy Devices
Google and Samsung join forces to power advanced AI capabilities on Galaxy devices, setting the stage for a more intelligent and intuitive user experience. Key Takeaways: The partnership between Google and Samsung brings Gemini AI features to Galaxy devices, enabling seamless integration of AI assistance into everyday smartphone interactions: Gemini AI can now read and respond to content displayed on the phone's screen or within a video being watched, providing contextual information and engaging in relevant conversations. New Circle to Search features enhance the user's ability to quickly access information and perform searches based on the content they are currently...
read Jul 10, 2024OpenAI and Los Alamos Pioneer Real-World AI Lab Experiment
OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboratory are collaborating to study the potential benefits and risks of using generative AI in a real-world laboratory setting, marking an important step in understanding the technology's impact on scientific research. Pioneering experiment in an active lab: OpenAI and Los Alamos are conducting what they believe to be the first experiment of its kind, using AI to assist in performing basic biomedical tasks within a functioning laboratory: The initial experiment involves using AI to help someone without specialized molecular biology skills genetically engineer E. coli bacteria to produce insulin. This real-world setting will provide valuable...
read Jul 10, 2024Musk’s xAI Opts for In-House Data Center, Prioritizing Speed and Control
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup, xAI, has decided to build its own data center rather than partnering with Oracle, due to disagreements over the speed of construction and the availability of power at the proposed site. Musk's desire for rapid development: xAI's decision to go solo reflects Musk's belief in the importance of moving quickly and maintaining control over critical infrastructure: In a post on X, Musk explained, "When our fate depends on being the fastest by far, we must have our own hands on the steering wheel." The talks between Oracle and xAI stalled because Musk demanded the facility...
read Jul 9, 2024OpenAI and Arianna Huffington Join Forces to Develop AI Health Coach
A new collaboration between OpenAI and Arianna Huffington aims to provide personalized health advice and guidance to individuals through the power of artificial intelligence. Key partnership and vision: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington have joined forces to fund the development of an "AI health coach" through Thrive AI Health, with the goal of making powerful health insights accessible to a wider audience: The AI coach will be trained on peer-reviewed science and users' personal biometric, lab, and medical data to provide tailored advice and support. Former Google executive DeCarlos Love has been appointed as the CEO of Thrive...
read Jul 9, 2024FedEx Partners with Police, AI Startup to Expand Controversial Surveillance Network Across U.S.
FedEx, the shipping giant, is partnering with police departments and Flock Safety, a car surveillance startup, to monitor its facilities and share camera feeds with law enforcement, potentially expanding a controversial AI surveillance network across the U.S. Key details of the partnership: FedEx is using Flock Safety's AI-powered car surveillance cameras to monitor its distribution and cargo facilities nationwide, and is sharing these feeds with local police departments: FedEx is one of at least four multi-billion dollar companies, including Simon Property, Lowe's, and Kaiser Permanente, that have been identified as Flock Safety customers. Some police departments, like Shelby County Sheriff's...
read Jul 9, 2024Apple Joins OpenAI Board, Signaling AI Future Despite ChatGPT Privacy Concerns
Apple, OpenAI, and the future of AI: The tech giant secures an observer role on OpenAI's board, signaling its commitment to integrating advanced AI capabilities into its ecosystem. Apple's strategic move: Apple has appointed Phil Schiller, its App Store head and former marketing chief, as an observer on OpenAI's board, aligning the company with Microsoft, OpenAI's main AI provider. This move follows Apple's announcement to integrate ChatGPT into its iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices, highlighting the company's focus on enhancing user experience through AI. Schiller's appointment underscores Apple's strategic AI partnership, despite potential conflicts due to the company's historical rivalry...
read Jul 8, 2024Apple’s M5 Chip Is Powering Macs, AI Servers with Advanced 3D Packaging
Apple's M5 chip will utilize advanced packaging technology to serve both Macs and AI servers, highlighting the company's strategy to vertically integrate its supply chain and meet growing computational demands. Key Takeaways: Apple is expanding its cooperation with TSMC to develop a next-generation hybrid SoIC (System on Integrated Chip) package that combines 3D stacking and thermoplastic carbon fiber composite molding technology: The advanced packaging allows for better electrical performance and thermal management compared to traditional 2D chip designs, enabling Apple to create powerful, efficient chips for a wide range of applications. The M5 chip is currently in a small trial...
read Jul 8, 2024Is Apple’s OpenAI Partnership The iPhone Moment for AI?
Apple's partnership with OpenAI to bring advanced AI capabilities to its devices marks a significant milestone in the mainstream adoption of artificial intelligence, with the potential to transform how society interacts with technology in everyday life. Key Takeaways: Apple's integration of ChatGPT-style services into its mobile devices and computers could be a transformative "iPhone moment" for generative AI, making it accessible and useful to millions of users in their daily lives. This partnership has the potential to democratize and empower users through AI, but it also presents challenges related to environmental impact, AI hallucinations, privacy, and data security. Broader Implications:...
read Jul 4, 2024Illinois Launches AI-Powered Portal to Revolutionize Youth Mental Health Support
Illinois's BEACON portal, developed in partnership with Google, aims to revolutionize youth mental health support by breaking down agency silos and streamlining access to services. The project's leader shared key insights and learnings from the development process with Government Technology. Addressing the youth mental health crisis: The BEACON portal is a direct response to the alarming rise in youth mental health challenges in Illinois, exacerbated by the pandemic and workforce shortages: According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 61.8 percent of Illinoisans aged 12 to 17 who have depression did not receive any care in 2021. The fragmented nature...
read Jul 3, 2024Time Partners with OpenAI, Joining Growing Trend of Media Companies Embracing AI
Time, the well-known media company, has joined a growing list of publishers in partnering with OpenAI to license its content for training AI models like ChatGPT. Key details of the partnership: The specific financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but the collaboration aligns with Time's mission to expand access to trusted information: Time COO Mark Howard stated, "This partnership with OpenAI advances our mission to expand access to trusted information globally as we continue to embrace innovative new ways of bringing Time's journalism to audiences globally." The partnership allows OpenAI to use Time's content to train its...
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