Microsoft's 2023 Ignite conference was packed with announcements heavily focused on AI integration at all levels of the company's offerings. Here, we present a selection of announcements concerning hardware for HPC and AI workloads, data science, and generative AI for sales and cybersecurity teams.
Claude 2.1 is now available over API in Anthropic's Console. The model is also powering the claude.ai chat experience. Alongside Claude's newest features, Anthropic also announced a cost-efficiency-increasing price adjustment across its models.
Stability AI announced the release of Stable Video Diffusion, its first foundational model for generative video. The company also plans to launch a series of models that build on and extend this model's capabilities to foster an ecosystem similar to the one growing around its image models.
French startup Osium is looking into materials science research and development as a use case for machine learning. Osium AI's solutions are data-driven tools that optimize the back-and-forth between materials formulation and testing to make it more efficient and sustainable.
Atlas has finally launched after completing two funding rounds, with $6 million raised. Atlas plans to invest the funds to expand its developer tool suite and launch a self-service 3D AI creator platform so individuals can profit from the proprietary software.
Giskard is a European startup working on collaborative, open-source software that ensures the quality of AI models. Its framework currently consists of three elements: the ML Testing Library, the AI Quality Hub, and the LLM monitoring tool LLMon.
Continue, the open-source coding autopilot, announced it has raised $2.1 million in its first funding round at the end of YCS23. The company plans to use the raised funds to keep working towards their goal of "making building software feel like making music."
IBM recently announced it would be the sole investor in its newly launched $500-million Enterprise AI Venture Fund. The company plans to invest in startups in a wide range of stages, from early-stage to hyper-growth, as a means to leverage both its own and third-party models to foster AI innovation.
Two recently published reports shed new light on the current state of the monetization of generative AI and its regulatory landscape. Together, these two reports help us lay the groundwork for a more substantial overview of AI in the workplace.
Tabnine recently raised $25M after completing a successful Series B round led by Telstra Ventures with participation from new investor Atlassian. The company plans to invest the funds into continuing to create AI-powered products.
Meta is teaming up with Hugging Face and Scaleway to launch the "AI Startup Program" at STATION F in Paris. The program will support five startups at the acceleration stage so they can develop their projects based on open foundation models.
Anonymous sources claim that Amazon is financing training for a 2 trillion parameter LLM codenamed 'Olympus', intending to compete with OpenAI and Google's most powerful offerings. Details of the project are scarce, and there seems to be no specific timeline for the release.