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Where Is Meta’s Generative Play?: Why Meta still lacks a flagship generative AI service
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Where Is Meta’s Generative Play?: Why Meta still lacks a flagship generative AI service

While Microsoft and Google scramble to supercharge their businesses with text generation, Meta has yet to launch a flagship generative AI service. Reporters went looking for reasons why.

June 28, 20232 min read
Where Is Meta’s Generative Play?: Why Meta still lacks a flagship generative AI service
Product Development

Where Is Meta’s Generative Play?: Why Meta still lacks a flagship generative AI service

While Microsoft and Google scramble to supercharge their businesses with text generation, Meta has yet to launch a flagship generative AI service. Reporters went looking for reasons why.

June 28, 20232 min read
Conversational Search, Google Style: Details leak about Magi, Google's answer to Bing with GPT-4.
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Conversational Search, Google Style: Details leak about Magi, Google's answer to Bing with GPT-4.

Google’s response to Microsoft’s GPT-4-enhanced Bing became a little clearer. Anonymous insiders leaked details of Project Magi, the search giant’s near-term effort to enhance its search engine with automated conversation.

April 26, 20232 min read
Conversational Search, Google Style: Details leak about Magi, Google's answer to Bing with GPT-4.
Product Development

Conversational Search, Google Style: Details leak about Magi, Google's answer to Bing with GPT-4.

Google’s response to Microsoft’s GPT-4-enhanced Bing became a little clearer. Anonymous insiders leaked details of Project Magi, the search giant’s near-term effort to enhance its search engine with automated conversation.

April 26, 20232 min read
AWS Joins the Generative AI Race: AWS launches Bedrock, a generative AI platform.
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AWS Joins the Generative AI Race: AWS launches Bedrock, a generative AI platform.

Amazon joined big-tech peers Google, Meta, and Microsoft in rolling out services that provide generated text and images. The online retailer launched early access to Bedrock, a cloud platform that offers generative models built by Amazon and its partners.

April 20, 20231 min read
AWS Joins the Generative AI Race: AWS launches Bedrock, a generative AI platform.
Product Development

AWS Joins the Generative AI Race: AWS launches Bedrock, a generative AI platform.

Amazon joined big-tech peers Google, Meta, and Microsoft in rolling out services that provide generated text and images. The online retailer launched early access to Bedrock, a cloud platform that offers generative models built by Amazon and its partners.

April 20, 20231 min read
AI Startups Face Compute Shortage: Generative AI demand is overwhelming cloud servers.
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AI Startups Face Compute Shortage: Generative AI demand is overwhelming cloud servers.

Chatbot-fueled FOMO is overwhelming cloud-computing services. Cloud providers are struggling to meet sharply rising demand by a crowd of AI startups eager to cash in on generative AI, The Information reported. The surge in demand caught Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and others off guard.

April 12, 20232 min read
AI Startups Face Compute Shortage: Generative AI demand is overwhelming cloud servers.
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AI Startups Face Compute Shortage: Generative AI demand is overwhelming cloud servers.

Chatbot-fueled FOMO is overwhelming cloud-computing services. Cloud providers are struggling to meet sharply rising demand by a crowd of AI startups eager to cash in on generative AI, The Information reported. The surge in demand caught Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and others off guard.

April 12, 20232 min read
AI Trends Tracked: 2023's AI trends from Stanford's AI Index
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AI Trends Tracked: 2023's AI trends from Stanford's AI Index

Stanford’s sixth annual AI Index takes stock of a rapidly growing field. The sprawling, 386-page report from the Institute for Human-Centered AI presents the past year’s developments in AI based on a wide variety of sources including benchmarks, papers, market research, job listings, and polls.

April 12, 20232 min read
AI Trends Tracked: 2023's AI trends from Stanford's AI Index
Product Development

AI Trends Tracked: 2023's AI trends from Stanford's AI Index

Stanford’s sixth annual AI Index takes stock of a rapidly growing field. The sprawling, 386-page report from the Institute for Human-Centered AI presents the past year’s developments in AI based on a wide variety of sources including benchmarks, papers, market research, job listings, and polls.

April 12, 20232 min read
Algorithm Whisperers: What it's like to work as a prompt engineer
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Algorithm Whisperers: What it's like to work as a prompt engineer

Looking for work in AI? Brush up on your language skills. Employers are hiring prompt engineers to write natural-language prompts for AI models, The Washington Post reported. They include Anthropic, Boston Children’s Hospital, and the London law firm Mischon de Reya.

March 29, 20232 min read
Algorithm Whisperers: What it's like to work as a prompt engineer
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Algorithm Whisperers: What it's like to work as a prompt engineer

Looking for work in AI? Brush up on your language skills. Employers are hiring prompt engineers to write natural-language prompts for AI models, The Washington Post reported. They include Anthropic, Boston Children’s Hospital, and the London law firm Mischon de Reya.

March 29, 20232 min read
How AI Kingpins Lost the Chatbot War: Why Microsoft beat other tech giants to market on generative AI
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How AI Kingpins Lost the Chatbot War: Why Microsoft beat other tech giants to market on generative AI

Amazon, Apple, and Google have been building chatbots for years. So how did they let the alliance between Microsoft and OpenAI integrate the first smash-hit bot into Microsoft products?

March 22, 20232 min read
How AI Kingpins Lost the Chatbot War: Why Microsoft beat other tech giants to market on generative AI
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How AI Kingpins Lost the Chatbot War: Why Microsoft beat other tech giants to market on generative AI

Amazon, Apple, and Google have been building chatbots for years. So how did they let the alliance between Microsoft and OpenAI integrate the first smash-hit bot into Microsoft products?

March 22, 20232 min read
Microsoft Cuts Ethics Squad: Microsoft eliminates its Ethics & Society unit.
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Microsoft Cuts Ethics Squad: Microsoft eliminates its Ethics & Society unit.

Microsoft laid off an AI ethics team while charging ahead on products powered by OpenAI. On March 6, the tech giant dissolved the Ethics & Society unit in its Cognition group, which researches and builds AI services, amid ongoing cutbacks that have affected 10,000 workers to date...

March 22, 20232 min read

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