AI
Survey: Majority of US Workers Are Already Using Generative AI Tools, But Company Policies Trail Behind
A new survey from the Conference Board indicates that More than half of US employees are already using generative AI tools, at least occasionally, to accomplish work-related tasks. Yet ...Full Article
Databricks Raises $500 Million in Pre-IPO Round
Databricks hasn’t gone public yet–the market just hasn’t been right this year for that–but it did the next best thing today when it raised $500 million in a growth ...Full Article
‘Every Tech Company Will Be an AI Company’: Hugging Face’s $235M Vote of Confidence
Hugging Face announced it has raised $235 million in a Series D funding round led by Salesforce Ventures with participation from a host of tech giants including IBM, Google, ...Full Article
Maximizing GPU Performance Amidst Today’s Increasing Shortages
The default method for accelerating Deep Learning projects is increasing the size of a GPU cluster. However, the cost is increasingly prohibitive. According to Andreessen Horowitz, many companies investing in ...Full Article
The Great 8-bit Debate of Artificial Intelligence
A grand competition of numerical representation is shaping up as some companies promote floating point data types in deep learning, while others champion integer data types. Artificial Intelligence Is ...Full Article
Nvidia Launches AI Factories in DGX Cloud Amid the GPU Squeeze
Nvidia is now renting out its homegrown AI supercomputers with its newest GPUs in the cloud for those keen to access its hardware and software packages. The DGX Cloud ...Full Article
20 Years into the Future: Splunk Conference Showcases New AI and Edge Solutions
At its .conf23 event in Las Vegas this week, Splunk unveiled a collection of new AI-powered tools across its portfolio of security and observability solutions. Splunk is celebrating its ...Full Article
OpenAI Launches Alignment Initiative Aimed at Mitigating ‘Superintelligent’ AI
What if artificial intelligence one day surpassed the intelligence of humans? This “superintelligence” is what OpenAI is anticipating – possibly within this decade – and the company has assembled ...Full Article
OpenAI Rival Inflection AI Raises $1.3B to Enhance Its Pi Chatbot
Palo Alto-based Inflection AI, an OpenAI competitor, announced it has raised $1.3 billion in a funding round led by Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, and new investor ...Full Article
‘AI Will Save the World’ Says Marc Andreessen
VC billionaire Marc Andreessen says the world is currently “hysterically freaking out” about artificial intelligence, and he recently wrote a 7,000-word essay to address these fears. During the Stratechery ...Full Article
