Microsoft teams up with cutting-edge French AI startup Mistral AI in a multi-year partnership aimed at advancing the development and deployment of next-gen LLMs). The collaboration marks a milestone on the road to bridging the gap between cutting-edge research and tangible, real-world AI applications, they said.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/26/2024
Red teaming, the process by which an organization's IT security team attacks its own systems to assess their resilience, is burdensome, time consuming and imperfect. When it comes to red teaming generative AI systems, Microsoft has a solution for the first two.
The Week in AI: New GPT Rating in OpenAI Store, Microsoft Picks Intel for its AI Chips, Google Apologizes for Gemini Stumble, NVIDIA Releases New App Beta, Stability AI Previews Stable Diffusion 3, More
- By John K. Waters
- 02/26/2024
Startup Mistral is extending access to its two open source large language models to developers using Amazon's prodigious cloud platform.
In the past week, Microsoft has committed to spending an additional $5.5 billion over two years to build out its cloud and AI infrastructure in Europe.
Google takes the wraps off Gemma, a new family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/22/2024
In a bid for AI hardware glory, Microsoft has signed an estimated $15 billion deal with chipmaker Intel to tap the latter's foundry services.
Google's new Cyber Defense Initiative, OpenAI's Sora launch, Bret Taylor's new AI startup, Anthropic's defense against election misinformation, and the first public preview of NVIDIA's Eos supercomputer, more.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/16/2024
One day after OpenAI unveiled an AI that can create videos out of text, some of the world's biggest purveyors of generative AI -- including OpenAI itself -- are sounding the alarm about the abuse of such technology during an especially busy election year.
OpenAI on Thursday unveiled "Sora," a text-to-video and image-to-video generative AI model.
OpenAI is piloting a new feature in ChatGPT that would let users control what and how much it remembers from conversation to conversation -- and also what it forgets.
Microsoft and OpenAI on Wednesday detailed how they jointly identified and shut down five state-sponsored hacking groups that were using OpenAI's LLMs "in support of malicious cyber activities."
Shipments of PC systems equipped with specialized artificial intelligence computing capabilities are expected to increase by 60 percent in the next three years, according to a report by IDC.