Microsoft unveils Drasi, a groundbreaking open-source data processing system that simplifies event-driven architectures and revolutionizes cloud-native development for improved efficiency and real-time responsiveness.

Microsoft just dropped Drasi, and it could change how we handle big data

Credo AI's Integrations Hub connects AI Ops platforms and business tools to one central compliance service.

Credo AI’s integrations hub automates governance for AI projects in Amazon, Microsoft, and more

Vera AI launches its AI Gateway platform, offering businesses customizable guardrails and model routing to accelerate safe and responsible AI deployment while addressing last-mile challenges in enterprise AI adoption.

Vera AI launches ‘AI Gateway’ to help companies safely scale AI without the risks

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Global VC activity declines in Q3 | NVCA 1st look

Skepticism should be in every employee manual to ensure new technologies are vetted responsibly without unnecessary alarm.

Skeptical about AI? It’s normal (and healthy)

Enterprise RAG accuracy needs better embeddings and that’s what Voyage AI provides with models that will be coming to Snowflake Cortex AI users.

Voyage AI’s multilingual embeddings boost Snowflake’s Cortex AI for improved enterprise RAG

The more data the Reflection 70B creators publish about the model, the more evidence the open source AI community has to pore over.

Reflection 70B saga continues as training data provider releases post-mortem report

Open-source LLMs are revolutionizing cybersecurity, serving as a strong catalyst for increasing innovation.

How open-source LLMs enable security teams to stay ahead of evolving threats

ScaNN vector index in AlloyDB delivers up to four times faster vector queries and up to eight-fold faster index build times.

Google Cloud brings tech behind Search and YouTube to enterprise gen AI apps

Equinix has raised $15 billion in funding to expand its xScale data centers for AI, particularly for investments in the U.S.

Equinix raises $15B in new capital to invest in xScale data centers to meet AI demand

It can make both video and audio from text prompts, and allow users to customize their own videos, adding special effects, props, costumes.

Meta enters AI video wars with powerful Movie Gen set to hit Instagram in 2025

Stanford researchers presented Archon, a framework that can cut down on inference costs and allow LLMs to perform better.

Inference framework Archon promises to make LLMs quicker, without additional costs

Nvidia has released NVLM 1.0, a powerful open-source AI model that rivals GPT-4 and Google’s systems, marking a major breakthrough in multimodal language models for vision and text tasks.

Nvidia just dropped a bombshell: Its new AI model is open, massive, and ready to rival GPT-4

Mostly AI's synthetic text tool can generate question-and-answer pairs, enabling enterprises to train smarter customer service chatbots.

Mostly AI’s synthetic text tool can unlock enterprise emails and conversations for AI training

While MFA is still critical in identity verification, experts say it should be just a small piece of the authentication process. 

Why MFA alone won’t protect you in the age of adversarial AI

With few exceptions, the updates all leverage AI in an effort to create a more personalized and powerful experience for users.

Microsoft leans harder into AI, updating Copilot, Bing, and Windows

Canvas is rolling out to ChatGPT Plus and Teams users, with subscribers to Enterprise and Edu tiers following in a few days.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Canvas, challenging Claude Artifacts

For developers building products atop the company's AI models and frameworks, this is probably welcome news.

OpenAI isn’t going anywhere: raises $6.6B at $157B valuation

Sometimes, the LLMs have the internal knowledge to self-correct their responses. They just need the right training technique to use it.

DeepMind’s SCoRe shows LLMs can use their internal knowledge to correct their mistakes

Apple's Depth Pro AI model sets a new standard in 3D depth estimation, offering high-resolution, real-time depth mapping from a single image without camera metadata—transforming industries like AR, autonomous vehicles, and more.

Apple releases Depth Pro, an AI model that rewrites the rules of 3D vision

OpenAI's DevDay 2024 unveils game-changing tools for developers, including 1000x cost reduction, Vision Fine-Tuning, Realtime API, and Model Distillation, signaling a strategic shift towards empowering its AI ecosystem.

OpenAI’s DevDay 2024: 4 major updates that will make AI more accessible and affordable

The new Pikaffects can transform imagery and pre-recorded video subjects into bizarrely malleable versions of themselves.

Pika 1.5 launches with physics-defying AI special effects

Flux 1.1 Pro image generation is priced at USD $0.04 per image, while the older Flux 1.0 Pro is available at $0.05.

Black Forest Labs releases Flux 1.1 Pro and an API

Cohere unveils advanced AI fine-tuning tools for enterprises, revolutionizing customization of language models with improved performance and efficiency.

Cohere just made it way easier for companies to create their own AI language models

Accenture has formed an Nvidia business group with 30,000 professionals to receive training to help enterprises scale up for the AI era.

Accenture forms Nvidia business group to scale enterprise AI adoption

Nvidia released its latest tech for creating AI-powered characters who look and behave like real humans.

Nvidia releases plugins to improve digital human realism on Unreal Engine 5

Avarra raised $8 million and it is launching its first AI-avatar-based enterprise app that uses AI avatars to train human salespeople.

Avarra raises $8M for AI-based avatar sales training

Identifying potential deepfake multimodal content is one of the benefits of OpenAI's design decisions that together define GPT-4o.

GPT-4o: OpenAI’s shield against $40B deepfake threat to enterprises

DreamWorld announced that it is launching a playtest on Steam where it shows it can use AI to generate 3D assets based on text prompts.