AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Databricks Introduces Scalable Batch Inference Model Serving
Introducing Simple, Fast, and Scalable Batch LLM Inference on Mosaic AI Model Serving
Tarunya ·
OpenAI Appoints Dr. Ronnie Chatterji as Chief Economist
In his new position, Dr. Chatterji will investigate how AI influences economic growth and job creation, examining the global economic impacts of AI infrastructure and labor market trends.
Siddharth Jindal ·
CrewAI Secures $18 Million Funding and Launches Enterprise Cloud Platform for AI Agents
The new platform enables teams of all sizes to automate workflows and develop AI-agent native features and applications
Siddharth Jindal ·
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Now Controls Your Computer Like You Do
Early adopters like Asana, Canva, Replit, and The Browser Company have already begun exploring its potential. Replit, for instance, is leveraging the feature to build a tool that evaluates apps during their development process.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Kai-Fu Lee’s AI Startup Claims to have Surpassed GPT-4o
“China’s advantage is doing whatever it takes to catch up,” said Lee.
Aditi Suresh ·
Socket Secures $40M to Combat Software Supply Chain Attacks, Backed by Abstract Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Bret Taylor
Socket looks to address security gaps in open source software models.
vandana.nair ·
IBM Unveils Granite 3.0 Models, Outperforms Llama 3.1
Developers can utilize the Granite 3.0 8B Instruct model for a range of natural language applications, including text generation, classification, summarization, entity extraction, and customer service chatbots.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Microsoft Steals the Spotlight with Autonomous AI Agents
This new development comes in the backdrop of Salesforce chief Marc Benioff’s criticising Microsoft Copilot—calling it Clippy 2.0.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Harvard Study Shows 96% Accuracy in ChatGPT-Like AI for Cancer Diagnosis
This is the first foundation AI model for pathology-based diagnosis to predict and validate patient outcomes across international groups.
Aditi Suresh ·
Meta Launches Meta Spirit LM, an Open Source Language Model for Speech and Text Integration
The new model allows users to generate more natural-sounding speech and demonstrates the capability to learn tasks across different modalities, including ASR, TTS, and speech classification.
Siddharth Jindal ·
MSDE Partners with Meta, Sarvam AI to Launch AI Assistant, Five VR/MR Centers of Excellence
Under the collaboration, an AI chatbot powered by Meta’s Llama model will be integrated into the SID Portal.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Microsoft Launches Inference Framework to Run 100B 1-Bit LLMs on Local Devices
BitNet.cpp can run a 100B BitNet b1.58 model on a single CPU, achieving processing speeds comparable to human reading, at 5-7 tokens per second.
Siddharth Jindal ·
DevRev Launches SaaS 2.0 with AI Agents for Enterprise
The new "Conversational AI Builder" allows businesses to design custom AI agents through a no-code interface, ensuring up to 95% accuracy in completing tasks.
Mohit Pandey ·
‘OpenAI’s o1 Model Was Almost Named GPT-5,’ Reveals Sam Altman
Hinting at the upcoming release of GPT-5.
Aditi Suresh ·
Wipro Trains 44,000 Employees in Advanced AI
Pallia emphasised that he believes all Wipro employees should adopt an AI-first mindset, have the right skill set, and use the right tool set in their work for all clients.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Ex-Oracle and Google Engineers’ AI Startup Raises $7 mn Funding From Accel
Simplismart’s inference engine optimisations enabled Llama 3.1 8B to achieve a throughput of over 440 tokens per second.
Mohit Pandey ·
Infosys is Finally Building Small Language Models and Multi-Agent Framework
Parekh also shared a notable case involving building a multi-agent framework for a client, where the agents handle specific business processes almost entirely on their own.
Mohit Pandey ·
DataStax Announces DataStax AI Platform Built with NVIDIA AI
Reduces AI Development Time by 60%; Handles AI Workloads 19x Faster;Enterprises Can Create AI That Increases In Accuracy As Customers Engage
Shalini Mondal ·
Okta Launches Customer Identity Cloud for GenAI Applications
The new features allow Okta customers to implement secure identity standards more easily for typical patterns in GenAI applications, improving the process of handling sensitive user data and permissions
Siddharth Jindal ·
Google Announces AI Collaborations For Healthcare, Sustainability, and Agriculture in India
“At Google, we’re not just building AI but shaping a future where AI benefits everyone,” said Dr. Manish Gupta.
Mohit Pandey ·