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21 May

Informatica CEO: Good Data Management Not Optional for AI

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(greenbutterfly/Shutterstock) The big data era may have started a decade-and-a-half ago, but for many companies, it’s the current AI revolution that’s forcing them to finally get serious about data management, says Informatica CEO Amit Walia. “What is AI without good quality data?” he says. Data is the foundation for a host of corporate efforts these days, and that realization is leading many companies to renew their interest in establishing a comprehensive data management strategy, Walia told Datanami last week in advanced of Informatica World, which takes place in Las Vegas this week. “The driver is all of these digital initiatives…

21 May

Microsoft announces Copilot+ PCs and AI-powered Recall feature – gHacks Tech News

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On a special event at Microsoft Campus, Microsoft unveiled Copilot+ PCs officially. This new type of Windows PCs, formerly known as AI PCs, mark the first step into introducing AI capabilities in Windows devices. Much of what Microsoft revealed on Monday was already known through unverified leaks. The first batch of Copilot+ PCs are powered by Qualcomm processors and not Intel or AMD silicon. These will come later this year though. As far as requirements are concerned, these match the leaks: at least 16GB of RAM. at least 256GB SSD storage. Integrated NPU. No word on the Copilot key requirement…

21 May

Google Taps AI to Show Shoppers How Clothes Fit Different Bodies

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One of the new ad formats Google announced today will allow brands to link short-form videos they made—or ones they hired creators to film—to their advertisements in Google’s search engine. AI-generated text summaries of the clips will be included below. “I’ve got three Gen Z-ers at home, and watching them shop, it’s very video-based,” said Madrigal.Google also launched a tool that allows companies to create entirely new, AI-generated product images based on photos from earlier marketing campaigns and pictures that represent their brand identity. For example, a home goods brand could upload a picture of one of its candles and…

21 May

Palantir’s Military AI Tech Conference Sounds Absolutely Terrifying

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Earlier this month, the military and intelligence-tied data monger Palantir — alongside big tech giants Google and Microsoft — sponsored DC's inaugural "AI Expo for National Competitiveness."Which, judging by The Guardian's summary of the event, sounds like it was an Orwellian nightmare fever dream to end all other military-industrial conferences.The relationship between Silicon Valley and the US military has experienced a bit of a rekindling in recent years — a renaissance in large part pushed forward in by the collision of advancements in AI, robotics, various autonomous weapons and vehicles, and surveillance. If anything, Palantir's recent event was a celebration of this…

21 May

Pile-T5

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The T5 model (Raffel et al, 2019) is widely used in the NLP community. Its base model has been downloaded from Hugging Face millions of times, leaving no doubt that these models are a favorite of the community. However, T5's tokenizer omits important code-related tokens and subsequent pretraining datasets have been released with higher quality filtering and more diverse domains. In this blog post, we introduce a new version of T5 intended to address those weaknesses: Pile-T5, trained on the Pile (Gao et al, 2020) and using the LLaMA tokenizer (Touvron et al, 2023). Model Description# Our alternative version replaces…

21 May

Megadeals Explode Early In The Year As US Startups Gobble Up More $100M+ Rounds

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Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2024 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. Although venture funding seems to be stagnating, more and more startups seem to be having an easier time securing really big funding rounds — that seemed to dry up last year — from investors. Rounds of $100 million or more — or megadeals — have exploded this year, as U.S.-based startups have collected 115 such rounds through mid-May, per The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. That is a 58% spike compared to…

21 May

Data Machina #253

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The Google AI Blast . This week OpenAI released a new closed model called GPT-4o (as in omni): Hello GPT-4o, a model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time. It seems the model performance in many benchmarks wasn’t as good as many AI pundits expected.And while many people in the AI community were befuddled and discussing the “flirtatiousness” aspects of GPT-4o, then Google came in and blasted a massive AI storm including SOTA models, new powerful open models, and pretty amazing tools. Here’s my summary on what Google released: Gemini 1.5 Pro model updates: Lots of…

21 May

Reflections On Qualtrics X4: AI-Powered Research Is Promising If We Stick To The Research Basics

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Qualtrics introduced its AI-powered Strategy & Research suite at its summit, X4, and launched its “Strategic UX” product — officially entering the experience research space. The new product supports various UX research methods like video feedback, unmoderated usability testing, card sorting, and tree testing, and it leverages AI to generate insights and recommended actions. Adding UX research to its experience management solutions, Qualtrics aims to support organizations’ research efforts at scale with a single platform. Qualtrics AI was the highlight of the event as it aims to help users get deeper insights through interactive dashboards, data analysis, and recommendations on…

21 May

The Shift from Models to Compound AI Systems

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AI caught everyone’s attention in 2023 with Large Language Models (LLMs) that can be instructed to perform general tasks, such as translation or coding, just by prompting. This naturally led to an intense focus on models as the primary ingredient in AI application development, with everyone wondering what capabilities new LLMs will bring. As more developers begin to build using LLMs, however, we believe that this focus is rapidly changing: state-of-the-art AI results are increasingly obtained by compound systems with multiple components, not just monolithic models. For example, Google’s AlphaCode 2 set state-of-the-art results in programming through a carefully engineered…

21 May

‘People are going to try to steal your secrets’ Dixon warns

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Kissimmee, Fla. – As U.S. intelligence agencies increase their reliance on commercial geospatial products and services, cybersecurity becomes a growing concern. “We create so many innovative solutions here in this country,” Stacey Dixon, U.S. deputy director of national intelligence, said May 6 at the 2024 GEOINT Symposium here. “Yet we lose a lot of that innovation to adversaries because we aren’t properly protecting it. Invest in your cybersecurity. Understand that people are going to try to steal your secrets.” Potential adversaries will seek access to commercial products directly as well as through intermediaries. Figure out how to prevent that, “because…