Hugging Face Releases Open-Source Visual Language Generative AI Model Idefics2 Hugging Face has unveiled a new eight-billion parameter generative AI model called Idefics2 that centers on processing and explaining images... AI 17 Apr 2
Legal Generative AI Startup Lawhive Spellbook Raises $11.8M British generative AI legal services startup Lawhive has raised £9.5 million ($11.8 million) in a seed funding round from GV.. AI 16 Apr 3
Amazon Music Introduces ‘Maestro’ Generative AI Playlist Builder Amazon Music has released a generative AI playlist creator named Maestro. The new feature curates a selection of songs inspired.. AI 16 Apr 4
Adobe Rolls Out Acrobat Acrobat AI Assistant to Explain Documents to Users Adobe has released its Acrobat AI Assistant to all users after a few months of beta testing. The generative AI.. AI 15 Apr 3
X.AI Offers a Look at New Multimodal Grok-1.5V with Vision Capabilities X.ai has introduced a new, multimodal member of the Grok family of large language models. Grok-1.5V is capable of interpreting.. AI 15 Apr 6
Texas Rustles Up AI Graders for State-Wide Tests The Texas Education Agency (TEA) will us AI to score open-ended questions on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic.. AI 12 Apr 7
Syntiant Raises $35M for On-Edge AI and Voice Processors Artificial intelligence and voice-focused computer chip startup Syntiant has closed a $35 million funding round led by Applied Ventures and.. AI 7 Aug 3
Welsh Health Service Debuts Bilingual Virtual Assistant Built on IBM Watson The National Health Service of Wales has launched a virtual assistant named CERi using the IBM Watson AI to help.. AI 6 Aug 2
Voice Tech Startup Voiceitt Raises $10M to Help People with Speech Impairments Talk to Voice Assistants and Other People Israeli speech recognition technology startup Voiceitt has closed a $10 million Series A funding round led by Viking Maccabee Ventures... AI 6 Aug 7
How Livestreaming Video Games on Twitch is Building an Audio Database for AI Training Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are building an open-source database of sounds in people’s homes using a video game they.. AI 5 Aug 2
Cerence Introduces a Breathtaking New Synthetic Voice for Reading the News from Reuters Cerence, the public company spin-out from Nurance focused on voice and AI technologies for the car, has introduced a new.. AI 3 Aug 2
Microsoft Cortana App Will Shut Down in 2021 and Cortana Skills RIP in a Few Weeks Microsoft continued its process of refocusing Cortana as an Office 365 assistant by revealing that the Cortana app will cease.. AI 2 Aug 2