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Electric Sheep raises $21.5M to make off-the-shelf lawnmowers autonomous

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Once installed, users take the system through a standard mowing path once to train it. After making some tough internal decisions to delay launch back in 2020, the robot mower is still MIA. Electric Sheep Robotics’s (yeah, yeah, Philip K. Dick, et al.) Image Credits: Electric Sheep Robotics. has some form of lawn. $20 million to date.

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‘Just-in-time’ AI: Has its moment arrived?

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For example, because they generally use pre-trained large language models (LLMs), most organizations aren’t spending exorbitant amounts on infrastructure and the cost of training the models. And although AI talent is expensive , the use of pre-trained models also makes high-priced data-science talent unnecessary.

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How AI orchestration has become more important than the models themselves

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As many companies that have already adopted off-the-shelf GenAI models have found, getting these generic LLMs to work for highly specialized workflows requires a great deal of customization and integration of company-specific data. Large language models (LLMs) just keep getting better. From Llama3.1 to Gemini to Claude3.5

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5 Things To Look For When Evaluating AI Startups

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LLM customization Is the startup using a mostly off-the-shelf LLM — e.g., OpenAI ’s ChatGPT — or a meaningfully customized LLM? Different ways to customize an LLM include fine-tuning an off-the-shelf model or building a custom one using an open-source LLM like Meta ’s Llama. trillion to $4.4 trillion annually.

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AI as a service to solve your business problems? Guess again

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Industries of all types are embracing off-the-shelf AI solutions. That’s a far cry from what most online off-the-shelf AI services offer today. Ralf Haller is the executive vice president of sales and marketing at NNAISENSE. It sounds like a great idea, but there is a caveat — “one-size-fits-all” syndrome.

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CIOs’ lack of success metrics dooms many AI projects

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Many organizations have launched dozens of AI proof-of-concept projects only to see a huge percentage fail, in part because CIOs don’t know whether the POCs are meeting key metrics, according to research firm IDC. The potential cost can be huge, with some POCs costing millions of dollars, Saroff says.

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9 IT resolutions for 2025

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Balancing the rollout with proper training, adoption, and careful measurement of costs and benefits is essential, particularly while securing company assets in tandem, says Ted Kenney, CIO of tech company Access. CIOs are an ambitious lot. Of course, every CIO has a unique to-do list with key objectives to accomplish.