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03 Jun

OpenAI forms safety and security committee to oversee AI projects as it trains next model – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTMaria Deutscher, OpenAI forms safety and security committee to oversee AI projects as it trains next model, SiliconANGLE

OpenAI today announced the formation of a committee that will be tasked with ensuring its machine learning research is carried out safely. The Safety and Security Committee, as the panel is called, comprises nine members. It will be led by OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and three other directors, including board Chair Bret Taylor. The committee’s five other members are OpenAI engineering executives Aleksander Madry, Lilian Weng, John Schulman, Matt Knight and Jakub Pachocki. The panel’s formation comes a few days after word emerged that the GPT-4 developer had disbanded an internal team dedicated to AI safety. The Superalignment…

03 Jun

Elastic’s new Search AI Lake enables highly scalable vector search for generative AI apps – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIElastic's new Search AI Lake enables highly scalable vector search for generative AI apps, Mike Wheatley, SiliconANGLE

Enterprise search technology provider Elastic N.V. is hoping to make the data essential for generative artificial intelligence as well as security and observability workloads more accessible with the launch of its new Search AI Lake service. Announced today, Elastic Search AI Lake is a radically different offering from existing Elasticsearch deployments. It decouples storage from compute, an approach that allows it to scale search across exponentially larger data volumes with rapid query performance for both traditional structured data and unstructured information represented as vectors. This latter capability makes Search AI Lake an especially useful data store for generative AI services,…

03 Jun

Analyzing IBM’s operational strategy for hybrid AI – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTHybrid AI: The convergence of hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence, SiliconANGLE, Victor Dabrinze

As artificial intelligence expands to cover an increasing number of industries, an emerging topic is hybrid AI — which combines the hybrid cloud model with AI’s data processing capabilities. What constitutes hybrid AI practically and how (if at all) is it poised to add concrete value to the existing AI transformation wave? TheCUBE explores IBM’s hybrid AI strategy with Varun Bijlani and Hillery Hunter at IBM Think 2024. “The first fundamental thought out here is that there is a very significant symbiotic relationship between hybrid cloud and AI,” said Varun Bijlani (pictured, left), global managing partner of hybrid cloud services at…

03 Jun

Business intelligence startup Sigma closes $200M round at $1.5B valuation – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIBusiness intelligence startup Sigma closes $200M round at $1.5B valuation, Maria Deutscher, SiliconANGLE

Sigma Computing Inc., the developer of a business intelligence platform designed to analyze information in cloud data warehouses, today announced that it has raised $200 million from investors. Spark Capital and Avenir Growth Capital led the Series D round. They were joined by a half-dozen other backers, including Snowflake Ventures. The investor group’s capital infusion values Sigma at $1.5 billion, 60% more than what it was worth following its previous funding round in 2021. “Sigma is proving that there is deep market demand for driving greater productivity and monetization as a result of the cloud data transition,” said Chief Executive…

03 Jun

IBM aims to address rising business costs with AI – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTDevony Hof, IBM looks to save budgets with automation platform, SiliconANGLE

With groundbreaking technology such as artificial intelligence and quantum emerging over the past couple years, one recurring question is how to afford it. IBM Corp. is addressing that issue head on with a new product lineup that keeps costs low. The company’s recent announcements include IBM Concert, an automation platform that helps users manage their AI applications, as well as other AI-powered automation tools aimed at reducing company spending. Ajay Patel and Bill Lobig of IBM discuss IBM’s new emphasis on financial operations practices in a conversation with theCUBE. “Cost is becoming a major constraint. IT budgets are competing for…

03 Jun

Elon Musk and Meta’s AI maestro Yann LeCun almost come to blows online – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTElon Musk and Meta’s AI maestro Yann LeCun almost come to blows online, James Farrell, SiliconANGLE

Meta Platforms Inc. AI Chief Scientist Yann LeCun spent some time on the X platform over Memorial Day weekend dueling with its owner, the billionaire and devoted contrarian Elon Musk. The spat was centered around Musk’s (pictured) $24 billion venture, xAI, his generative artificial intelligence startup that he hopes will get ahead of the likes of OpenAI, Microsoft Corp., Google LLC and Meta, which are all now engaged in what could be termed the great scramble for the AI market a bit like colonizing countries once scrambled for physical space. The fight, it seems, isn’t going to be pretty. Musk wrote…

03 Jun

An overview of Alteryx’s SparkED analytics program – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIFostering data science mentorship in the next-gen analytics workforce, SiliconANGLE, Victor Dabrinze

The enterprise is a fast-moving landscape. Companies often bemoan skill gaps and talent shortages but don’t actively engage in grassroots mentorship and skill impartation through academia. Bucking that trend is Alteryx Inc. Its SparkED Analytics Education Program exists to solve two key problems: shaping careers through analytics and mitigating the skills shortage in the data realm. “The SparkED Education Program really is at the center of solving that, connecting learners with customers,” said Jason Belland (pictured, left), vice president of the Global SparkED Education Program at Alteryx. “Today we’re working with over 1,200 universities across 55 countries. We’ve worked with almost…

03 Jun

PricewaterhouseCoopers becomes first reseller of ChatGPT Enterprise in US and UK – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTKyt Dotson, PricewaterhouseCoopers becomes first reseller of ChatGPT Enterprise in US and UK, SiliconANGLE

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and OpenAI today signed an agreement making the PwC the first reseller for ChatGPT Enterprise, bringing generative AI deeper into the enterprise for customers in the United States and the United Kingdom. Launched in August, ChatGPT Enterprise provides unlimited access to the latest and greatest models that OpenAI has to provide, including GPT-4 and the broadest context windows available. It also delivers the best-in-class security and privacy alongside the ability to customize and prepare models for enterprise-grade solutions by using data sources close to business needs. Through Enterprise access, customers will get their hands on the newly released…

03 Jun

Fender analytics: Revolutionizing music industry insights – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIFender's AI revolution: Transforming music with analytics and cloud technology, Sead Fadilpasic, SiliconANGLE

Fender Musical Instruments Corp. is undergoing a transformation focused on artificial intelligence, the cloud and customer satisfaction. The company’s analytics are revolutionizing the way musicians and businesses approach music with powerful insights, according to Cliff Kim (pictured, right), vice president of strategy, growth and analytics at Fender. Fender Musical’s Cliff Kim and Alteryx’s Paula Hansen talk with theCUBE about Fender analytics. “We are big fans of Alteryx … everything came to fruition where we are all going through this transformation together,” Kim said. “It’s centered around AI, centered around the cloud, centered around all of these pieces that we’re trying to…

03 Jun

Aporia introduces real-time guardrails for multimodal AI applications – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTAporia introduces real-time guardrails for multimodal AI applications, Duncan Riley, SiliconANGLE

Machine learning observability startup Aporia Technologies Ltd. today launched Guardrails for Multimodal AI Applications, a new service that extends its existing artificial intelligence guardrails solution to include guardrails for vision and audio. Claimed to be a first-of-its-kind solution, Guardrails for Multimodal AI Applications is designed to mitigate issues in video and audio-based AI applications, such as hallucinations, wrong responses, compliance violations and jailbreak attempts. Multimodal AI is an AI system that can simultaneously process and interpret multiple types of data inputs, such as text, images, audio and video. The new service’s release follows OpenAI’s launch of its flagship multimodal GPT-4o model on…