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VentureBeat • 19th July 2023

Nvidia became a $1 trillion company thanks to AI. Look inside its lavish ‘Star Trek’-inspired HQ | The AI Beat

Over a million square feet across two massive steel and glass structures. Hundreds of conference rooms named after Star Trek places, alien races and starships, as well as astronomical objects — planets, constellations and galaxies. Acres of greenery and elevated “birds’ nests” where people can work and meet. A bar called “Shannon’s” with a panoramic view and plenty of table space for board games.

This is the nearly $1 billion headquarters of Nvidia in Santa Clara, California — located on a patc

VentureBeat • 20th June 2023

Adobe Stock creators aren’t happy with Firefly, the company’s ‘commercially safe’ gen AI tool

Adobe’s stock soared after a strong earnings report last week — where executives touted the success of its “commercially safe” generative AI image generation platform Adobe Firefly. They say Firefly was trained on hundreds of millions of licensed images in the company’s royalty-free Adobe Stock offering, as well as on “openly licensed content and other public domain content without copyright restrictions.” On the Firefly website, Adobe says it is “committed to developing creative generative AI r

VentureBeat • 10th April 2023

With a wave of new LLMs, open-source AI is having a moment — and a red-hot debate

The open-source technology movement has been having a moment over the past few weeks thanks to AI — following a wave of recent large language model (LLM) releases and an effort by startups, collectives and academics to push back on the shift in AI to closed, proprietary LLMs.

State-of-the-art LLMs require huge compute budgets — OpenAI reportedly used 10,000 Nvidia GPUs to train ChatGPT— and deep ML expertise, so few organizations can train them from scratch. Yet, increasingly, those that have t

VentureBeat • 9th March 2023

The hottest party in generative AI is productivity apps

As the search AI chatbot shindigs — like Microsoft’s Bing bot debut and Google’s Bard launch — wind down for now, who knew the hottest, trendiest party in generative AI would be … business productivity apps?

After years of being relegated to nerdy, wallflower AI status while self-driving cars, robot dogs and the future of the AI-powered metaverse got the spotlight, generative AI’s email-writing, blog-producing, copy-powering abilities are suddenly popular. And top companies from startups to Big

VentureBeat • 23rd February 2023

How Nvidia dominated AI — and plans to keep it that way as generative AI explodes

At next month’s GTC, Nvidia’s annual AI conference targeting over 3.5 million developers working on its platform, founder and CEO Jensen Huang will invite Ilya Sutskever, cofounder and chief scientist at OpenAI, onto the stage for a fireside chat.

The conversation will certainly send a symbolic message that Nvidia has no intention of ceding its AI dominance — which began when the hardware and software company helped power the deep learning “revolution” of a decade ago. And Nvidia shows few sign

VentureBeat • 14th February 2023

Why Colorado draft AI insurance rules are a “major leap forward” for AI governance

Two weeks ago, Avi Gesser, partner at Debevoise & Plimpton and co-chair of the firm’s cybersecurity, privacy and artificial intelligence practice group, emailed me a note that said: “Here is where the AI governance laws really start.”

He linked to the Colorado Division of Insurance’s draft Algorithm and Predictive Model Governance Regulation, which was released on February 1. The draft rules impose requirements on Colorado-licensed life insurance companies that use external data and AI systems

VentureBeat • 9th February 2023

OpenAI rival Cohere AI has flown under the radar. That may be about to change.

Aidan Gomez, cofounder and CEO of Cohere AI, admits that the company, which offers developers and businesses access to natural language processing (NLP) powered by large language models (LLMs), is “crazy under the radar.”

Given the quality of the company’s foundation models, which many say are competitive with the best from Google, OpenAI and others, that shouldn’t be the case, he told VentureBeat.

Perhaps, he mused, it’s because the company isn’t releasing attention-grabbing consumer demos li

VentureBeat • 5th January 2023

Two years after DALL-E debut, its inventor is “surprised” by impact

Before DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, there was just a research paper called “Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation.”

With that paper and a controlled website demo, on January 5, 2021 — two years ago today — OpenAI introduced DALL-E, a neural network that “creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.” (Also today: OpenAI just happens to reportedly be in talks for a “tender offer that would value it at $29 billion.”)

The 12 billion-par

VentureBeat • 30th November 2022

OpenAI debuts ChatGPT and GPT-3.5 series as GPT-4 rumors fly

As GPT-4 rumors fly around NeurIPS 2022 this week in New Orleans (including whispers that details about GPT-4 will be revealed there), OpenAI has managed to make plenty of news in the meantime.

On Monday, the company announced a new model in the GPT-3 family of AI-powered large language models, text-davinci-003, part of what it calls the “GPT-3.5 series,” that reportedly improves on its predecessors by handling more complex instructions and producing higher-quality, longer-form content.

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VentureBeat • 9th November 2022

Why authorized deepfakes are becoming big for business

Natalie Monbiot, head of strategy at synthetic media company Hour One, dislikes the word “deepfakes.”

“Deepfake implies unauthorized use of synthetic media and generative artificial intelligence — we are authorized from the get-go,” she told VentureBeat.

She described the Tel Aviv- and New York-based Hour One as an AI company that has also “built a legal and ethical framework for how to engage with real people to generate their likeness in digital form.”

Authorized versus unauthorized. It’s a