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Inflection-2 beats Google’s PaLM 2 across common benchmarks
Inflection, an AI startup aiming to create “personal AI for everyone”, has announced a new large language model dubbed Inflection-2 that beats Google’s PaLM 2. Inflection-2 was trained on over 5,000 NVIDIA GPUs to reach 1.025 quadrillion floating point operations (FLOPs), putting it in the same league as PaLM 2 Large. However, early benchmarks show…
Global AI security guidelines endorsed by 18 countries
The UK has published the world’s first global guidelines for securing AI systems against cyberattacks. The new guidelines aim to ensure AI technology is developed safely and securely. The guidelines were developed by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the US’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). They have already secured endorsements from…
AWS and NVIDIA expand partnership to advance generative AI
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NVIDIA have announced a significant expansion of their strategic collaboration at AWS re:Invent. The collaboration aims to provide customers with state-of-the-art infrastructure, software, and services to fuel generative AI innovations. The collaboration brings together the strengths of both companies, integrating NVIDIA’s latest multi-node systems with next-generation GPUs, CPUs, and AI…
Ampere Computing: Unlocking a Path to the Sustainable Cloud
AI News caught up with Victor Jakubiuk, Head of AI at Ampere Computing, a semiconductor company offering Cloud Native Processors. We discussed how they are driving high-performance, scalable and energy-efficient solutions built for the sustainable cloud. In today’s business landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) has been an undeniable game-changer, driving innovation and competitiveness across all industries….
AI multi-speaker lip-sync has arrived
Rask AI, an AI-powered video and audio localisation tool, has announced the launch of its new Multi-Speaker Lip-Sync feature. With AI-powered lip-sync, 750,000 users can translate their content into 130+ languages to sound as fluent as a native speaker. For a long time, there has been a lack of synchronisation between lip movements and voices…
Demystifying AI and seeing past the hype
In a presentation at AI & Big Data Expo Global, Adam Craven, Director at Y-Align, shed light on the practical applications of AI and the pitfalls often overlooked in the hype surrounding it. Craven — with an extensive background in engineering and leadership roles at McKinsey & Company, HSBC, Nokia, among others — shared his…
AI’s impact on decision-making in marketing
In a presentation at AI & Big Data Expo Global, Jason Smith, Chief Digital Officer of Publicis Groupe, shared insights into the role of AI in reshaping decision-making processes within the realm of advertising and marketing. The focal point of Smith’s presentation was a strategic experiment conducted by his team to explore the potential of…
Absci and AstraZeneca forge AI partnership to discover cancer treatments
Absci, a frontrunner in generative AI antibody discovery, has partnered with biopharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to leverage AI in the quest for a novel cancer treatment. This collaboration will capitalise on Absci’s Integrated Drug Creation platform—seamlessly integrating with AstraZeneca’s expertise in oncology, aiming to expedite the discovery of a potentially game-changing cancer therapy. Under the agreement,…
Overcoming the ‘last mile problem’ in knowledge management: A guide for IT teams
The concept of the “last mile problem” is widely recognised across various industries as the challenges faced in the final stage of delivering services or products from a central system to the end user’s location. Although typically associated with telecommunications and transportation, its application extends far beyond these domains. In the realm of Knowledge Management,…
Google’s next-gen AI model Gemini outperforms GPT-4
Google has unveiled Gemini, a cutting-edge AI model that stands as the company’s most capable and versatile to date. Demis Hassabis, CEO and Co-Founder of Google DeepMind, introduced Gemini as a multimodal model that is capable of seamlessly understanding and combining various types of information, including text, code, audio, image, and video. Gemini comes in…