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.
xAI recently announced the early access release of its first AI product. Grok, a chatbot modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, is programmed to answer almost any question with a healthy dose of humor. It will leverage data from X to allegedly answer questions other chatbots reject.
OpenAI DevDay took place today (Nov 6) and featured a keynote full of extraordinary announcements of upcoming additions and upgrades to the company's offerings. Most notable were the GPT-4 Turbo preview, the Assistants API launch, and the GPTs introduction.
Freeplay has made its public beta generally available. The suite of collaborative, enterprise-ready tools for building, testing, and optimizing LLM-powered products is planned as a platform for teams to level access to creating LLM-powered products for developers and non-developers alike.
Credal, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is working on a platform that creates co-pilots that help companies connect private data with cloud- or on-premises-hosted LLMs. Credal features strong security and compliance controls that include participation in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
Google and Amazon have launched AI-powered image generation tools for advertisers to create high-quality product images that can help them drive more successful advertising campaigns.
Skylum will upgrade its award-winning photo editing software, Luminar Neo, with three generative AI technologies. These will enable users to remove unwanted items from compositions, expand the boundaries of their pictures, and replace existing objects using prompt-responsive generation.
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs published a progress update on AlphaFold, the model capable of predicting protein structures from amino acid chains. AlphaFold is now capable of predicting several structures beyond proteins and medically relevant interactions such as antibody binding.
Treeverse has announced the general availability of lakeFS 1.0. Notably, the update guarantees forward and backward compatibility with all lakeFS versions, preserving compatibility with technologies such as Azure, Databricks, and Apache Iceberg.
German startup ZenML has just announced that it secured an additional $3.7 million in funding as an extension of its seed round. ZenML's core product is an MLOps solution that offers end-to-end coverage of the ML lifecycle. The tool will soon be available as a managed service.
Oxolo recently raised 13M EUR in a Series A round led by DN Capital for their AI-powered video generation platform. Their novel approach lets users automatically create a product video and accompanying text script with the click of a button.