[News] The NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud APIs extend Omniverse's capabilities for digital twins application and workflow creation
NVIDIA's Omniverse Cloud APIs enable developers to integrate RTX rendering and OpenUSD into their software tools and simulation workflows. Industry leaders worldwide leverage the Omniverse Cloud APIs to enhance their workflows and deliver solutions for the development of digital twin simulations.
https://dataphoenix.info/the-nvidia-omniverse-cloud-apis-extend-omniverses-capabilities-for-digital-twins-application-and-workflow-creation/

[News] xAI is releasing the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1
Following Elon Musk's latest dispute with OpenAI, lawsuit included, xAI has followed through with the promise of delivering an open release of Grok-1. The weights and architecture have been released under an Apache 2.0 license, and the inference code is available on xAI's GitHub.
https://dataphoenix.info/xai-is-releasing-the/

[News] Claude 3 Haiku, Anthropic's fastest model, is now officially available
Anthropic officially launched Claude 3 Haiku on the claude.ai platform, the Claude API, and Amazon Bedrock, with upcoming Google Cloud Vertex AI availability. The vision-enabled model is fast, affordable, and is particularly adept at math reasoning and coding.
https://dataphoenix.info/claude-3-haiku-anthropics-fastest-model-is-now-officially-available/

[News] Pienso has secured $10M in Series A funding
Pienso, a startup founded by MIT Media Lab alum Birago Jones and Karthik Dinakar, announced that it secured $10 million in a Series A round led by new investor Latimer Ventures. Pienso offers a no-code platform that enables non-technical users to annotate large volumes of data to train algorithms.
https://dataphoenix.info/pienso-has-secured-10m-in-series-a-funding/

[News] This Week in AI: March 17–23
A brief recap of NVIDIA's GTC 2024; Inflection AI and Stability AI lost essential team members ; Stability AI launched SV3D and introduced Image Services on its Developer Platform; Runway announced strategic partnerships; Google was charged with a $270M fine by France's Autorité de la Concurrence
https://dataphoenix.info/this-week-in-ai-march-17-23/

[News] Andreessen Horowitz published a report on the shift in attitudes toward AI adoption and spending
Andreessen Horowitz Growth team partners Sarah Wang and Shangda Xu interviewed several enterprise leaders and surveyed 70 more to learn more about the attitudes toward AI adoption and spending. They have published their findings in a compelling report, which we distilled into this piece.
https://dataphoenix.info/andreessen-horowitz-published-a-report-on-the-shift-in-attitudes-toward-ai-adoption-and-spending/

[News] Adaptive ML secured $20M in seed funding to democratize LLM preference tuning
Adaptive ML is tackling the hurdles that keep enterprises and individuals from interacting with highly customized and user-personalized generative AI experiences. To this end, the company has secured $20M in seed funding to accelerate the development of its enterprise platform, Adaptive Engine.
https://dataphoenix.info/adaptive-ml-secured-20m-in-seed-funding/

[News] The UXL Foundation's programming model will free developers from NVIDIA's chokehold
The Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation has brought together a team of industry-leading organizations to develop the largest open ecosystem for accelerated computing based on Intel's OneAPI. This platform would allow, among other things, the migration out of NVIDIA's CUDA software platform.
https://dataphoenix.info/the-uxl-foundations-programming-model-will-free-developers-from-nvidias-chokehold/

[News] Activeloop announces its Series A with a reflection on the future of AI data
Activeloop, the AI data infrastructure company behind Deep Lake, celebrates its $11M Series A with an illuminating reflection on AI data's past, present, and future. Where the present struggles are caused by a data stack from the past, Deep Lake emerges as a promising future for the AI data stack.
https://dataphoenix.info/activeloop/

[News] The 2024 Machine Learning, AI & Data Landscape is hot off the presses
The 2024 MAD Landscape opens with a chart neatly organizing 2,011 active AI companies. The consequent discussion is equally informative and amusing, with this piece aiming to provide a not-too-brief overview.
https://dataphoenix.info/this-years-machine-learning-ai-data-landscape-is-out/

[News] OpenPipe announces its $6.7M seed funding round
OpenPipe secured $6.7 million, in a seed funding round led by Costanoa Ventures and featuring the participation of Y Combinator and a selection of investors, to enable developers and enterprises to substitute their GPT-4 prompts with fine-tuned models and to build their custom data flywheel.
https://dataphoenix.info/openpipe-announces-its-6-7m-seed-funding-round/

[News] There's more to the 'AI boom' than foundational model companies
The AI boom is often associated with the lightning-fast rise of foundational model companies like OpenAI. Once more, NVIDIA reminds us that hardware is also important, as its groundbreaking financial growth shines its light upon other AI hardware-related stocks.
https://dataphoenix.info/theres-more-to-the-ai-boom-than-foundational-model-companies/

[News] This Week in AI: March 31 – April 6
Hailo secures additional funds and introduces Hailo-10 for edge devices; Luminance raised $40 million in Series B led by March Capital; The US and the UK signed into a partnership on AI safety; Stability AI launched Stable Audio 2.0; Google won big in the AI talent-luring battle; and more.
https://dataphoenix.info/this-week-in-ai-march-31-april-6/

[News] Spotify launches AI Playlist beta for Premium users in Australia and the UK
Spotify is releasing AI Playlist as a beta feature for Premium users in Australia and the UK. AI Playlist lets users create and refine personalized playlists via text-based prompts on a chat interface.
https://dataphoenix.info/spotify-launches-ai-playlist-beta-for-premium-users-in-australia-and-the-uk/

[News] Google showcased its AI ecosystem at Google Cloud Next '24
Google Cloud Next '24 took place last week and featured an opening keynote delivered by CEO Thomas Kurian. The keynote was brimming with announcements covering everything from its AI Hypercomputer to the newly Gemini-infused Workspace, as Google revamped every layer in its AI stack.
https://dataphoenix.info/google-cloud-next-24-offered/

[News] The UK government will fund AI training for small and medium-sized businesses
The UK Government has announced it has 6.4M available to fund small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) looking to train their workforce on AI technologies. SMEs can apply until May 31st. Successful applicants will receive an up to 50% reimbursement from their AI training investment.
https://dataphoenix.info/the-uk-government-will-fund-ai-training-for-small-and-medium-sized-businesses/

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[News] Codestral is Mistral AI's first model for code-generation tasks.
Mistral AI recently launched Codestral, a 22B-parameter model focused at helping developers with code-generation tasks, and shown to outperform models with more significant system requirements, including CodeLlama 70B, Llama 3 70B, and DeepSeek Coder 33B.

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[News] ElevenLabs launched a text-to-sound effects AI audio model.
ElevenLabs has launched a groundbreaking new Text to Sound Effects feature that leverages AI to allow users to generate a wide variety of audio content like sound effects, instrumental tracks, and character voices simply from text prompts.

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[News] Leading voice cloning tools are alarmingly easy to manipulate to produce election disinformation.

An alarming new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate reveals how leading AI voice cloning tools can be easily manipulated to generate disinformation mimicking political leaders' voices, posing a severe threat to the integrity of the many upcoming elections worldwide in 2024.

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