TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

The appetite for generative AI — AI that turns text prompts into images, essays, poems, videos and more — is insatiable. According to a PitchBook report released this month, VCs have steadily increased their positions in generative AI, from $408 million in 2018 to $4.8 billion in 2021 to $4.5 billion in 2022.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2024

2024 is going to be a huge year for the cross-section of generative AI/large foundational models and robotics. There’s a lot of excitement swirling around the potential for various applications, ranging from learning to product design. Google’s DeepMind Robotics researchers are one of a number of teams exploring the space’s potential.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Many, if not most, generative AI tech vendors argue that fair use entitles them to train AI models on copyrighted material scraped from the internet — even if they don’t get permission from the rightsholders.

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CIO

MAY 3, 2024

United Parcel Service last year turned to generative AI to help streamline its customer service operations. Customer service is emerging as one of the top use cases for generative AI in today’s enterprise, says Daniel Saroff, group vice president of consulting and research at IDC.

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CIO

AUGUST 9, 2024

Generative AI gives organizations the unique ability to glean fresh insights from existing data and produce results that go beyond the original input. Companies eager to harness these benefits can leverage ready-made, budget-friendly models and customize them with proprietary business data to quickly tap into the power of AI.

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TechEmpower CTO

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI), and particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), have significantly transformed the search engine as we’ve known it. With Generative AI and LLMs, new avenues for improving operational efficiency and user satisfaction are emerging every day.

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

For generative AI, a stubborn fact is that it consumes very large quantities of compute cycles, data storage, network bandwidth, electrical power, and air conditioning. Infrastructure-intensive or not, generative AI is on the march. of the overall AI server market in 2022 to 36% in 2027.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

These advancements in generative AI offer further evidence that we’re on the precipice of an AI revolution. However, most of these generative AI models are foundational models: high-capacity, unsupervised learning systems that train on vast amounts of data and take millions of dollars of processing power to do it.

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CIO

MAY 30, 2024

Generative AI is poised to disrupt nearly every industry, and IT professionals with highly sought after gen AI skills are in high demand, as companies seek to harness the technology for various digital and operational initiatives.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

If any technology has captured the collective imagination in 2023, it’s generative AI — and businesses are beginning to ramp up hiring for what in some cases are very nascent gen AI skills, turning at times to contract workers to fill gaps, pursue pilots, and round out in-house AI project teams.

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CIO

JUNE 13, 2024

Over the past year, generative AI – artificial intelligence that creates text, audio, and images – has moved from the “interesting concept” stage to the deployment stage for retail, healthcare, finance, and other industries. On today’s most significant ethical challenges with generative AI deployments….

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2024

France’s competition authority fined Google, its parent company Alphabet, and two subsidiaries a total of €250 million ($271 million) for breaching a previous agreement on using copyrighted content for training its Bard AI service, now known as Gemini. Generative AI, Regulation

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

There’s a shortage of GPUs as the demand for generative AI, which is often trained and run on GPUs, grows. Nvidia’s best-performing chips are reportedly sold out until 2024.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Perhaps the most exciting aspect of cultivating an AI strategy is choosing use cases to bring to life. This is proving true for generative AI, whose ability to create image, text, and video content from natural language prompts has organizations scrambling to capitalize on the nascent technology.

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2024

Despite the promise generative AI holds for boosting corporate productivity, closing the gap between its potential and business value remains one of CIOs’ chief challenges. Sixty-six percent of C-level executives are ambivalent or dissatisfied with the progress of their AI or GenAI efforts, according to Boston Consulting Group 1.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The recent terms & conditions controversy sequence goes like this: A clause added to Zoom’s legalese back in March 2023 grabbed attention on Monday after a post on Hacker News claimed it allowed the company to use customer data to train AI models “with no opt out” Cue outrage on social media.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Generative AI is poised to redefine software creation and digital transformation. How generative AI transforms the SDLC GenAI has emerged as a transformative solution to address these challenges head-on. The future of software development is here, and generative AI powers it. Result: 70% more efficient.

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CIO

MAY 1, 2024

Is generative AI so important that you need to buy customized keyboards or hire a new chief AI officer, or is all the inflated excitement and investment not yet generating much in the way of returns for organizations? Have you had training? Do you feel confident about being able to learn these things?

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CIO

APRIL 18, 2024

AI tools can help coders clean up logic and coding errors and find security problems, and they may also help to accelerate programmers’ skills, cutting the sunk cost of internal training, he suggests. Gunkel is leaning toward offering a couple of AI assistant options, including Microsoft Copilot, to employees later this year.

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CIO

AUGUST 19, 2024

Yet as organizations figure out how generative AI fits into their plans, IT leaders would do well to pay close attention to one emerging category: multiagent systems. All aboard the multiagent train It might help to think of multiagent systems as conductors operating a train.

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CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

The pressure is on for CIOs to deliver value from AI, but pressing ahead with AI implementations without the necessary workforce training in place is a recipe for falling short of their goals. For many IT leaders, being central to organization-wide training initiatives may be new territory. “At

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CIO

JUNE 13, 2024

Proof that even the most rigid of organizations are willing to explore generative AI arrived this week when the US Department of the Air Force (DAF) launched an experimental initiative aimed at Guardians, Airmen, civilian employees, and contractors. It is not training the model, nor are responses refined based on any user inputs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2024

In late December, The New York Times sued OpenAI and its close collaborator and investor, Microsoft, for allegedly violating copyright law by training generative AI models on Times’ content. Today, OpenAI gave a public response, claiming — unsurprisingly — that The Times’ lawsuit is meritless.

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CIO

JULY 9, 2024

The key is to take stock of the skills your organization needs to succeed and to identify how those skills might be impacted by gen AI in order to create a reskilling plan for the future. For Deloitte, the Swedish home furnishing brand provides the classic example of how gen AI is already impacting the workplace.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

The cash injection brings Adept’s total raised to $415 million, which co-founder and CEO David Luan says is being put toward productization, model training and headcount growth. ” Adept, a startup training AI to use existing software and APIs, raises $350M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

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CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

By Chet Kapoor, Chairman & CEO at DataStax Along with the exciting possibilities of generative AI (genAI), there have been concerns around job (in)security and displacement. Leaders are feeling the pressure to implement genAI quickly and automate as much as possible.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly emerging as a game changer for enterprises, but turning its potential into measurable value remains a significant challenge. Key takeaway: Continuous monitoring and updating of AI models are essential to minimize bias and improve accuracy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It’s an open secret that the data sets used to train AI models are deeply flawed. And as most recently highlighted by a study out of the Allen Institute for AI, the data used […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Image corpora tends to be U.S.- All rights reserved.

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CIO

JUNE 14, 2024

IBM reports that 96% of executives see adopting generative AI as increasing their organisation’s chances of experiencing a security breach within the next three years. The LLMs that power GenAI tools often store the data that’s used in queries or for training, and use it for their own purposes, such as improving the LLM.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Generative AI is disrupting industries — with understandable controversy. Earlier this month, Danny Postma, the founder of Headlime, an AI-powered marketing copy startup that was recently acquired by Jasper , announced Deep Agency , a platform he describes as an “AI photo studio and modeling agency.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Investors continue to pump money into generative AI tech. Case in point, Replit, an IDE startup developing a code-generating AI-powered tool called Ghostwriter, this week raised nearly $100 million ($97.4 “AI has already brought that future closer,” Masad continued. million) at a $1.16

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

CIOs and HR managers are changing their equations on hiring and training, with a bigger focus on reskilling current employees to make good on the promise of AI technologies. That shift is in no small part due to an AI talent market increasingly stacked against them. Reskilling employees is a crucial step, he adds.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

With the QnABot on AWS (QnABot), integrated with Microsoft Azure Entra ID access controls, Principal launched an intelligent self-service solution rooted in generative AI. Generative AI models (for example, Amazon Titan) hosted on Amazon Bedrock were used for query disambiguation and semantic matching for answer lookups and responses.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

While organizations continue to discover the powerful applications of generative AI , adoption is often slowed down by team silos and bespoke workflows. To move faster, enterprises need robust operating models and a holistic approach that simplifies the generative AI lifecycle.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2024

CIOs failing to gain organizational traction with generative AI might want to rethink how they are introducing the technology — and how they are honing their AI strategies to suit. Guidelines, however, are important especially with this tier of AI offerings because some may repurpose the company data that’s entered.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2024

The early bills for generative AI experimentation are coming in, and many CIOs are finding them more hefty than they’d like — some with only themselves to blame. CIOs are also turning to OEMs such as Dell Project Helix or HPE GreenLake for AI, IDC points out. The heart of generative AI lies in GPUs.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

With Databricks, the firm has also begun its journey into generative AI. The company started piloting a gen AI Assistant roughly 18 months ago that is now available to 90,000 employees globally, Beswick says, noting that the assistant now runs about 2 million requests per month.

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