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A Panacea for AI Chip Bottlenecks? White House Puts Up $285M for Digital Twins R&D

The Biden White House on Monday announced a new research and development fund with the goal of making chip manufacturing more efficient and less resource-intensive using "digital twins" technology.

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Microsoft Adds AI Security Monitoring to 'Defender' Solution

During this week's RSA Conference, Microsoft described some steps it's taking to extend its security products to the developing AI frontier.

The Week in AI: New Tools from Oracle, Apple, NVIDIA, Snapchat, More

This edition of our weekly roundup of AI products and services includes the PyTorch introduction of ExecuTorch alpha, Oracle's latest Gen AI-enabled customer experience enhancements, Apple's OpenELM advanced language model, HubSpot's relaunched Content Hub, NVIDIA and MIT's new vision language model, OpsVerse's Aiden co-pilot, and new Snapchat AR and ML tools.

Nvidia's ChatRTX Update Adds New AI Models, Features

Nvidia enhances its experimental ChatRTX chatbot by integrating additional AI models for owners of RTX GPUs.

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Snowflake Unveils Arctic: A New Open-Source LLM Optimized for Enterprise

Data-as-a-service provider Snowflake launches Arctic, a new large language model (LLM) called based on a unique Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture optimized for complex enterprise workloads.

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NIST Launches National Generative AI Testing Program

The U.S. government is taking incremental steps toward establishing a more standardized national approach to AI safety.

Linux Foundation's Next Sandbox Project: An Open Source AI Platform

Industry giants led by open source vanguard Linux Foundation are working to create viable alternatives to commercial AI solutions.

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Amazon 'Q' Hits Prime Time

After a five-month preview, Amazon's enterprise AI assistant, dubbed simply "Q," is now generally available.

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JFrog Integration Extends MLflow Functionality

Software supply chain platform provider JFrog has announced a new machine learning (ML) lifecycle integration with MLflow, the open-source platform created by Databricks.

The Week in AI: New Tools from Salesforce, Zendesk, Datorios, WhyLabs, Hailo, More

This edition of our weekly roundup of AI products and services includes the GA of Salesforce Einstein Copilot, a new service tool suite from Zendesk, the release AllegroGraph 8.1 and Hailo-10, Datorios' Apache Flink big-data processing framework, WhyLabs' new its AI Control Center, and a new AI training course from Google.

Next-Gen Small Language 'Phi' Model from Microsoft Released

Microsoft is promising high performance in a small package with this week's release of Phi-3, the latest version of its small language model (SLM).

AWS Updates Bedrock with Library Expansion and Model Comparison Feature

Launched just last fall, Amazon Bedrock, the AI development platform stewarded by cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS), currently has a user base in the "tens of thousands."

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Open Source Models Have Edge in Cost, But Not in Performance

The cost of training foundation models has exploded, according to the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), which put the price tag of Google's top-level Gemini Ultra model at around $191 million.

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