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Google opens up Gemini 1.5 Flash, Pro with 2M tokens to the public

Google’s Imagen 3 text-to-image foundation model comes to Vertex AI

Google to shore up Vertex AI’s enterprise credentials with addition of Mistral Small, Large and Codestral models

Google’s Gemma 2 series launches with not one, but two lightweight model options—a 9B and 27B

Figma unveils AI-powered design tools, challenges Adobe’s dominance

Sierra’s new benchmark reveals how well AI agents perform at real work

Five trends driving the adoption of Cloud AI technologies, showing reality outpaces hype

Oracle brings Autonomous Databases to Microsoft Azure datacenters to help enterprises migrate to the cloud

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever announces new startup to tackle safe superintelligence

ElevenLabs unveils open-source creator tool for adding sound effects to videos

Decagon emerges from stealth to provide ‘human-like’ AI agents, transforming customer support for enterprises

Augie Studio aims to become the Canva for AI video creation for marketers and enterprise

Applied Intuition debuts AI software helping autonomous systems navigate across all terrains

Oracle APEX gets AI assistants to help with low-code enterprise app development

TikTok introduces Symphony Digital Avatars, letting companies ‘breathe life’ into their branded content

LiveBench is an open LLM benchmark that uses contamination-free test data and objective scoring

Zyphra debuts Zyda, a 1.3T language modeling dataset it claims outperforms Pile, C4, arxiv

Bem secures $3.7M to automate unstructured data conversion for engineers

The five-stage journey organizations take to achieve AI maturity

Asana unveils customizable and intelligent AI Teammates to optimize projects and business workflows

SAP to embed Joule AI copilot into more of its enterprise apps, plans Microsoft Copilot tie-up

Intel debuts the Xeon 6 processor, aiming to modernize data centers to tackle enterprise AI workloads

Intel reveals Lunar Lake’s architecture, showing how its flagship AI PC processor will work

PwC strikes OpenAI deal to become the first reseller of ChatGPT Enterprise

SAP adds Amazon Bedrock into AI Core, streamlining generative AI use for regulated firms

The 4 ways Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs will reshape enterprise computing

How Microsoft sees its Models-as-a-Service feature democratizing access to AI

OpenAI’s Sam Altman calls AI systems like GPT-4 ‘safe enough for use’

Microsoft introduces Phi-Silica, a 3.3B parameter model made for Copilot+ PC NPUs

Qualcomm’s AI Hub adds support for Snapdragon X processors, allows developers to use their own AI models

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Dev Kit is a compact PC designed to help build Copilot+ PC apps

Microsoft makes Phi-3 generally available, previews its Phi-3-vision multimodal small language model

Microsoft teams with Khan Academy to make its AI tutor free for K-12 educators and will develop a Phi-3 math model

Microsoft’s AI Azure Studio is now generally available and supports OpenAI’s GPT-4o

GitHub debuts Copilot Extensions, plugin support connecting third-party apps with Copilot Chat

Microsoft’s AI chief: Why AI should be emotionally intelligent and how it’ll create the next 1,000 Einsteins

Microsoft’s Team Copilot is a virtual team member that can run meetings and projects

Microsoft Copilot Studio will let developers build AI bots that act like agents
