AI Ecosystem Ep 35: Major companies join forces for AI consortium; Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund allocations funds to AI; and Google announces VLOGGER image to video model.
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AI Ecosystem Report Ep 34: NVIDIA and Hippocratic AI partner to develop AI healthcare agents; BigID secures funds for its AI-powered data security offerings; and Elon Musk launches Grok, a real-time chatbot for the X platform.
AI Ecosystem Ep 32: Bayer applies AI to selective breeding of crops; Spacely secures funds for GenAI design platform; and Groq builds Language Process Units.
AI Ecosystem Report Ep. 31: ServiceNow, Hugging Face, and Nvidia partner to develop open-access LLMs for code generation; Figure secures funding for building AI-powered humanoid robots; and Google releases Gemma models in partnership with Hugging Face.
AI Ecosystem Report Ep 30: ServiceNow and Nvidia expand their existing partnership to integrate GenAI offerings; Bria secures funding for its infringement-free image generation platform; and Salesforce releases Einstein Copilot.
AI Ecosystem Ep 29: Bankwell embraces GenAI with Cascading AI; Rasa raises $30M for GenAI-based customer service programs; and OpenAI announces its text-to-video model, Sora.
AI Index Ep 23: Amazon Updates Alexa and Echo with GenAI; Robin AI secures funds for its legal copilot; and Volkswagen embeds ChatGPT-based voice assistant.
AI Index Report Ep 21: BlackRock rolls out generative AI copilot tools; Vast raises $118 million for its AI platform for data and cloud; and Alibaba develops animation machine learning model.
AI Index Ep 20: AWS announcements from the re:Invent 2023 conference; AI21 Labs raises $200 million for NLP applications; Smith.ai builds custom AI chat tools for virtual agents.
AI Index Report Ep 19: OpenAI advances generative AI with Q*; Pika Labs and Adobe provide generative video tools; and Lelapa AI tackles challenges with underrepresented languages for LLMs.
AI Index Ep 17: Announcements from OpenAI’s DevDay; Lidl Invests in startup Aleph Alpha; and Carmax integrates a new AI feature.
Salesforce announces $20 million in grants to fund training and education programs in schools and non-profits, focusing on generative AI and emerging technologies to prepare students and the workforce for the future.
AI Index Report episode 13: Google prepares to launch its Gemini model; Writer secures funding to advance its LLM platform; and Granica announces Chronicle to better analyze data in cloud storage.
AI Index Report episode 12: Treefera provides AI forest analytics platform for carbon credit verification; EY announces EY.AI model; and Baidu launches Ernie Bot.
AI Index episode 11: Bayer partners with Google to optimize drug discovery and clinical trials with AI; Imbue raises $200 million to build advanced AI agents; and Walmart launches generative AI assistant.
Episode 10: PayPal and VISA use AI to reduce payments errors; ConverSight raises funding to build generative AI for enterprises; and Hugging Face launches secure coding assistant.
AI Index episode 8: Dell announces new offerings with generative AI in its hardware; Thomson Reuters acquires legal AI firm for $650 million; and Lookout launches SAIL to enhance security capabilities.
In Ep. 3 of the Acceleration Economy Minute, Kieron references the work of fellow AE cybersecurity analysts who discuss how and why organizations must expand on their approach to defense.
Verusen, Stockly, FindMine and TotalCtrl are all part of SAP.iO’s startup accelerator; all are expanding with customers, wins, or investments.
Innovation is alive and well: Automation Anywhere, SingleStore, Workspan, and Ecocart all secured major financial backing this week.