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Slang.ai raises $20M to bring the power of voice AI to retailers and restaurants
Slang.ai, a company that provides a voice-enabled phone answering service powered by generative artificial intelligence, emerged from stealth mode today with $20 million in funding to deliver a better experience for customers calling retail establishments and restaurants. With Slang’s solution, brick-and-mortar businesses don’t need to worry about missed phone calls going to voicemail anymore. They are ...
AI rivalry heats up as Baidu and DeepMind aim for OpenAI’s top spot
The power of generative artificial intelligence chatbots to talk like humans and perform knowledge tasks has taken the world by storm, but none has gotten as much attention as OpenAI’s LP’s ChatGPT. Now, that popularity has brought both new contenders for OpenAI’s crown and new claims of superiority. At the front of the pack, Google ...
Airtable launches beta program for no-code AI-powered app deployment
Airtable, a no-code platform for building workflows and apps, today announced that it’s launching a beta program and expanding access to Airtable AI, allowing enterprises to develop and deploy generative artificial intelligence applications for business workflows and productivity. Using Airtable AI, companies will be able to integrate generative AI across their organizations and workflows without ...
Snowflake and Nvidia partner to let businesses use their own data to build custom AIs
Snowflake Inc. and Nvidia Corp. announced a team-up today during Snowflake Summit 2023 that will provide customers a way to build custom generative artificial intelligence applications more easily using their own data within a secure cloud environment. Many enterprises see generative AI as a type of assistant, using it to augment employee knowledge by having ...
Databricks acquires generative AI startup MosaicML in $1.3B deal
Big-data and machine learning software provider Databricks Inc. said today that it will acquire the generative artificial intelligence startup MosaicML Inc. in a deal worth $1.3 billion, with a goal to make open-source AI models more accessible to enterprise businesses. The acquisition comes at a time when generative AI is capturing the attention of every ...
Amazon invests $100M in new Generative AI Innovation Center to accelerate solution development
As enterprise businesses and startups continue to embrace generative artificial intelligence, Amazon Web Services Inc. furthered its investment in the technology today with the announcement of its Generative AI Innovation Center, a new program aimed at helping customers build and deploy AI solutions. The company said it’s investing $100 million in the program, which will ...
Apple Vision Pro SDK out now with in-person developer labs coming next month
Developers can get a head start on building apps for Apple Inc.’s much-anticipated mixed-reality Apple Vision Pro headset today with newly released developer tools that will allow them to develop for visionOS, the spatial operating system that it runs on. Apple unveiled the Vision Pro during its WWDC developer conference earlier this month priced at ...
MosaicML releases open-source 30B parameter AI model for enterprise applications
MosaicML Inc., a generative artificial intelligence startup that provides infrastructure for companies to run machine learning services, announced the open-source availability of MPT-30B, the company’s most advanced MosaicML Pretrained Model foundation series for commercially licensed AI applications. The company said that the MPT-30B model surpasses the quality of the original GPT-3 released by OpenAI LP ...
Dropbox rolls out new AI features for search and summarization
Cloud-based file-sharing company Dropbox Inc. announced new artificial intelligence-based features today that will make it easier for customers to discover all their files and information in one place, summarize information embedded in them and get questions answered. Dropbox is best known for its file-sharing service that stores files in the cloud and allows users to ...
Opera launches its generative AI-enabled browser powered by OpenAI
Web browser developer Opera Software announced today that its new generative artificial intelligence-enabled browser Opera One is out of testing and available with numerous improvements. The company says Opera One was redesigned from the ground up in preparation for AI-based browsing and allows users to access its AI sidebar, which is directly integrated with a ...