Artificial Intelligence

Adobe knows enterprise users worry about permissions for generative AI artwork. Adobe Firefly, the company’s generative AI art creation tool, generates copyright claims. The company specifically mentions enterprise customers in its clause statement: With Firefly, Adobe will also be offering enterprise customers an IP indemnity, which means that Adobe would …

Inflection, a well-funded AI startup aiming to create “personal AI for everyone,” revealed the large language model powering its Pi conversational agent. Competition is good, but it’s hard to objectively and systematically assess these things’ quality. As measured by computing power used to train them, Inflection-1 is roughly GPT-3.5 (AKA …

This question is serious. How can generative AI be used ethically in a major public work of art? Marvel Studios’ use of AI to create “Secret Invasion”‘s title sequence raises this issue. AI-generated art—in this climate? By a billionaire-funded company? Unacceptable! This is not a secret AI invasion. Some were …

A four-week-old startup has raised $113 million to compete with OpenAI in building, training, and applying large language models and generative AI. Paris-based Mistral AI, co-founded by Google DeepMind and Meta alumni, will focus on open source solutions and enterprises to solve what CEO Arthur Mensch calls the biggest challenge …

OpenAI is improving its text-generating models and lowering prices as generative AI competition increases. Today, OpenAI released GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4, its latest text-generating AI with function calling. In a blog post, OpenAI explains that function calling lets developers describe programming functions to GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4 and have the models generate …

Reddit’s controversial API pricing change that’s driving third-party apps out of business has taken a strange turn. In an AMA today, Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman, aka u/spez, doubled down on accusations against the developer of the popular third-party app Apollo, which the company had previously accused of operating …

Tiki, a short-form video app, will shut down in India on June 27. “Tiki is closing. “Tiki functions and services will cease at 11.59 PM India time, June 27, 2023,” Tiki wrote. Tiki, which featured original and local videos, had 35 million monthly active users in India, its only market, …

Innovius Capital and Threshold Ventures led CloudZero’s $32 million Series B funding round. CEO Erik Peterson says the tranche will expand CloudZero’s platform and scale its go-to-market efforts, focusing on savings insights and self-service analytics. “The pandemic accelerated digital transformation for many companies, which increased software development and spend in …

Prime minister Rishi Sunak announced at London Tech Week that OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic will provide “early or priority access” to their AI models to support evaluation and safety research. After several AI giants warned about the existential and even extinction-level risks of unregulated AI, Sunak became more interested …

Adobe announced today that enterprise customers can customize its Firefly generative image generator with their own branded assets. In addition, enterprise users will be able to access Firefly from Adobe Express, formerly Adobe Spark. “Enterprise leaders expect content demands to increase by five-fold over the next two years, making it …