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Notable AI Scientist Andrew Ng Joins Amazon's Board of Directors

Amazon has significantly raised the level of its AI bona fides, recruiting renowned AI researcher Andrew Ng to its executive board.

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Google Turns Gemini Into a Team of AI Cloud Assistants

Google burnished its Gemini AI platform this week, announcing a new version milestone and its expansion into the entirety of Google's cloud stack.

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Microsoft, Nvidia Accelerate AI Land Grab

Two of the biggest players in today's AI space are expanding their presence in a widening swath of the globe, with the goal of increasing datacenter power, as well as courting local talent and mindshare.

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Cohere Releases Its Latest Enterprise-Grade LLM, Command R+

There's a new model in Cohere's family of enterprise-grade Command R large language models: Command R+, described by the company as its "most powerful" scalable LLM yet.

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The Week in AI: OpenAI Enhances Fine Tuning, JetBrains Integrates Local AI Models, Replit Unveils Coding Assistant, More

This edition of our weekly roundup of AI product and services news includes OpenAI's enhancements to its fine-tuning API; Stability AI's release of Stable Audio 2.0: Cohere's launch of its latest large language model, Command R+; CodiumAI's new AI support for software developers; and more.

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OpenAI Unveils New Fine-Tuning API Features and Expands Custom Model Program for Enhanced AI Development

OpenAI announces new features that promise to give developers greater command over the customization of AI models.

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OpenAI Cautiously Opens Pandora's Box of AI-Generated Voice Mimicry

OpenAI is putting a new AI-based voice technology through its paces in a very limited private preview in an effort to explore its capabilities while keeping it out of the hands of potential bad actors.

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Startups Can Now Use AWS Credits To Access Bedrock AI Models

Companies that receive AWS credits via the cloud giant's AWS Activate program can now use them to access the full roster of foundation models in the Amazon Bedrock platform.

U.S. and U.K. To Jointly Develop AI Testing Frameworks

The U.S. and U.K. governments are working together to establish AI safety testing standards and protocols.

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Nearly 600 Percent Increase in AI/ML Use Since Q2 2023: Report

It's no surprise that use of AI and machine learning tools is more widespread than ever. What might be a surprise is by how much.

The Week in AI: Claude 3 vs. GPT-4, Google AutoBNN, OpenAI-Microsoft Supercomputer, More

This edition of our weekly roundup of AI product and services news includes the Claude 3 Opus defeat of GPT-4 in the Chatbot Arena, Google AI's release of AutoBNN, OpenAI and Microsoft's supercomputer project, KnowBe4's AIDA release, Nametag's ID verification platform, Accenture and Adobe's latest collaboration, and more.

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Microsoft Tackles AI Prompt Injections, Hallucinations in Azure Feature Update

Microsoft this week announced five new capabilities in Azure AI Studio to help developers build security and anti-abuse protections into their generative AI apps.

AWS Ponies Up Rest of Its $4B Commitment to Anthropic

Cloud giant Amazon Web Services on Wednesday announced it has made good on its promise to invest $4 billion into Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot and family of foundational AI models.

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