Microsoft brings the new AI-powered Bing to mobile and Skype, gives it a voice Barely two weeks after launching the new AI-enabled Bing on desktop (and a few ups and downs during…
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Baidu to deploy conversational AI across search, in-car entertainment and more
Baidu to deploy conversational AI across search, in-car entertainment and more Baidu today revealed more details about its much-anticipated intelligent Ernie Bot, widely seen as the search giant’s counterpart to ChatGPT. Ernie…
OpenAI’s Foundry will let customers buy dedicated compute to run its AI models
OpenAI’s Foundry will let customers buy dedicated compute to run its AI models OpenAI is quietly launching a new developer platform that lets customers run the company’s newer machine learning models, like…
Science fiction publishers are being flooded with AI-generated stories
Science fiction publishers are being flooded with AI-generated stories Across the 17-year history of Clarkesworld, a renowned literary magazine of science fiction and fantasy, authors have speculated about how evolving, futuristic technology…
The nonprofits accelerating Sam Altman’s AI vision
The nonprofits accelerating Sam Altman’s AI vision Elon Musk tweeted Saturday a ChatGPT conversation that speculated about the 2019 transition of its creator, OpenAI, from a nonprofit to a for-profit organization. The…
Current Surgical is developing a ‘smart’ needle designed to treat cancerous tumors
Current Surgical is developing a ‘smart’ needle designed to treat cancerous tumors D.C.-based Current Surgical this week announced a $3.2 million seed. The round, which brings the firm’s total raise up to…
Swap’s robotic mowers score $7M in seed funding
Swap’s robotic mowers score $7M in seed funding Swap Robotics entered our orbit last year, when the firm was a finalist for our Battlefield competition at Disrupt 2022. In a world full…
Replicate wants to take the pain out of running and hosting ML models
Replicate wants to take the pain out of running and hosting ML models Replicate, a startup that runs machine learning models in the cloud, today launched out of stealth with $17.8 million…
Toyota Research Institute SVP on the difficulty of building the perfect home robot
Toyota Research Institute SVP on the difficulty of building the perfect home robot Earlier this week, the Toyota Research Institute opened the doors of its Bay Area offices to members of the…
Can ‘we the people’ keep AI in check?
Can ‘we the people’ keep AI in check? Technologist and researcher Aviv Ovadya isn’t sure that generative AI can be governed, but he thinks the most plausible means of keeping it in…