24 posts tagged ‘Generative AI’
AI researcher François Chollet is co-founding a nonprofit to build benchmarks for AGI
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Former Google engineer and influential AI researcher François Chollet is co-founding a nonprofit to help develop benchmarks that’ll probe AI for “human-level” intelligence. The nonprofit, the ARC Prize Foundation, will be led by Greg Kamradt, an ex-Salesforce engineering director and founder of the AI product studio Leverage. Kamradt will serve as president and a member […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Generative AI funding reached new heights in 2024
If there was any doubt, the generative AI bubble did not burst in 2024. Investments in generative AI, which encompasses a range of AI-powered apps, tools, and services to generate text, images, videos, speech, music, and more, reached new heights last year. According to data from financial tracker PitchBook compiled for TechCrunch, generative AI companies […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
xAI’s next-gen AI model didn’t arrive on time, adding to a trend
The list of flagship AI models that missed their promised launch windows continues to grow. Last summer, billionaire Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of AI company xAI, said that Grok 3, xAI’s next major AI model, would arrive by “end of year” 2024. Grok, xAI’s answer to models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025
Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in — or excluded from — its AI training data. But seven months later, this feature has yet to see the light of day. Called Media Manager, the tool would “identify copyrighted text, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Forget Apple Vision Pro — rabbit r1 is 2024’s most exciting launch yet
The year is off to a quick start in terms of new product launches and availability, even leaving aside the usual mid-tier smorgasbord that is CES. Apple just started pre-sales of its Vision Pro mixed reality headset, with shipments beginning in early February; meanwhile, Samsung debuted the next generation of the only viable iPhone competitor […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Microsoft launches a Pro plan for Copilot
Microsoft evidently envisions Copilot, the umbrella brand for its portfolio of AI-powered, content-generating technologies, becoming a significant future revenue line-item. And that’s perhaps not far off base; according to the company, more than 40% of the Fortune 100 participated in its Copilot early access program. But given the enormous cost of running GenAI models in […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The year of ‘does this serve us’ and the rejection of reification
2024 has arrived, and with it, a renewed interest in artificial intelligence, which seems like it’ll probably continue to enjoy at least middling hype throughout the year. Of course, it’s being cheerled by techno-zealot billionaires and the flunkies bunked within their cosy islands of influence, primarily in Silicon Valley – and derided by fabulists who […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
What a long, strange year it’s been in enterprise tech news
Looking back at the top enterprise news stories of the year, it's clear that generative AI dominated, but it wasn't the only news. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.