Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. This week, SpeedyBrand, a company using generative AI to create SEO-optimized content, emerged from stealth with backing from Y Combinator. It hasn’t attracted a lot of funding yet ($2.5 million), and its customer base is relatively small (about 50 brands). But it got me thinking about how generative AI is beginning to change the makeup of the...…Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. This week, SpeedyBrand, a company using generative AI to create SEO-optimized content, emerged from stealth with backing from Y Combinator. It hasn’t attracted a lot of funding yet ($2.5 million), and its customer base is relatively small (about 50 brands). But it got me thinking about how generative AI is beginning to change the makeup of the...WW…

It’s difficult to convince users to switch search engines. That’s one reason why public search service startups rarely succeed. Another is that it’s expensive to index a huge number of websites (Google has an estimated tens of billions of pages indexed), but one Y Combinator-backed company, Andi, is undeterred — forging ahead to build an AI assistant that provides answers instead of links when searching online. Andi was founded by Angela Hoover, who registered for YC’s Startup School after dropping out of college and got into YC’s Winter 2022 Batch. After working overseas in construction...…It’s difficult to convince users to switch search engines. That’s one reason why public search service startups rarely succeed. Another is that it’s expensive to index a huge number of websites (Google has an estimated tens of billions of pages indexed), but one Y Combinator-backed company, Andi, is undeterred — forging ahead to build an AI assistant that provides answers instead of links when searching online. Andi was founded by Angela Hoover, who registered for YC’s Startup School after dropping out of college and got into YC’s Winter 2022 Batch. After working overseas in construction...WW…

×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .Google today announced that several of its cloud-based, AI-powered document processing products have become generally available after launching in preview last year. , , and Procurement DocAI, which have been piloted by thousands of businesses to date, are now open to all customers and include new features and resources.Companies spend an average of $20 to file and store a single document, , and only 18% of companies consider themselves . An IDC report...…×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .Google today announced that several of its cloud-based, AI-powered document processing products have become generally available after launching in preview last year. , , and Procurement DocAI, which have been piloted by thousands of businesses to date, are now open to all customers and include new features and resources.Companies spend an average of $20 to file and store a single document, , and only 18% of companies consider themselves . An IDC report...WW…

×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! ., a startup using AI to create synthetic videos of avatars for marketing, today announced it has raised $12.5 million. In a press release, the company said the funding will be put toward expanding its workforce as it invests in product R&D.As the pandemic makes virtual meetups a regular occurrence, the concept of “personal AI” is rapidly gaining steam. Startups creating virtual beings, or artificial people powered by AI, have collectively raised more than $320...…×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! ., a startup using AI to create synthetic videos of avatars for marketing, today announced it has raised $12.5 million. In a press release, the company said the funding will be put toward expanding its workforce as it invests in product R&D.As the pandemic makes virtual meetups a regular occurrence, the concept of “personal AI” is rapidly gaining steam. Startups creating virtual beings, or artificial people powered by AI, have collectively raised more than $320...WW…

×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .What if the key to improving speech recognition accuracy is simply mixing all available speech datasets together to train one large AI model? That’s the hypothesis behind a recent study published by a team of researchers affiliated with Google Research and Google Brain. They claim an AI model named that was trained on a range of speech corpora achieves state-of-the-art or near-state-of-the-art results on a variety of speech recognition benchmarks.Training models on...…×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .What if the key to improving speech recognition accuracy is simply mixing all available speech datasets together to train one large AI model? That’s the hypothesis behind a recent study published by a team of researchers affiliated with Google Research and Google Brain. They claim an AI model named that was trained on a range of speech corpora achieves state-of-the-art or near-state-of-the-art results on a variety of speech recognition benchmarks.Training models on...WW…

×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .At its this morning announced the general availability of its Jarvis framework, which provides developers with pretrained AI models and software tools to create interactive conversational experiences. Nvidia says that Jarvis models, which first became available in May 2020 in preview, offer automatic speech recognition, as well as language understanding, real-time language translations, and text-to-speech capabilities for conversational agents.The ubiquity of...…×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .At its this morning announced the general availability of its Jarvis framework, which provides developers with pretrained AI models and software tools to create interactive conversational experiences. Nvidia says that Jarvis models, which first became available in May 2020 in preview, offer automatic speech recognition, as well as language understanding, real-time language translations, and text-to-speech capabilities for conversational agents.The ubiquity of...WW…

×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .By 2025, more than 75% of venture capital and early-stage investor executive reviews will be informed by . In other words, AI might determine whether a company makes it to a human evaluation at all, de-emphasizing the importance of pitch decks and financials. That’s according to a new whitepaper by Gartner, which predicts that in the next four years, the AI- and data-science-equipped investor will become commonplace.Increased advanced analytics capabilities are...…×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .By 2025, more than 75% of venture capital and early-stage investor executive reviews will be informed by . In other words, AI might determine whether a company makes it to a human evaluation at all, de-emphasizing the importance of pitch decks and financials. That’s according to a new whitepaper by Gartner, which predicts that in the next four years, the AI- and data-science-equipped investor will become commonplace.Increased advanced analytics capabilities are...WW…

×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .In a new study published in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering, researchers at IBM say they’ve developed an AI model that can assist in the rapid design of antimicrobial peptides — the building blocks of proteins. The researchers say that the model outperforms other AI methods at designing such peptides and increases the success rate of identifying a viable candidate by 10%.Antibiotics have transformed the world of medicine over the past century or so, but...…×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .In a new study published in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering, researchers at IBM say they’ve developed an AI model that can assist in the rapid design of antimicrobial peptides — the building blocks of proteins. The researchers say that the model outperforms other AI methods at designing such peptides and increases the success rate of identifying a viable candidate by 10%.Antibiotics have transformed the world of medicine over the past century or so, but...WW…

Please wait...Log OutFrom podcasts to Clubhouse, branded audio is more important than ever. Learn how brands are increasing customer loyalty and personalization with these best practices.Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. .IBM today announced the launch of the Molecule Generation Experience (MolGX), a cloud-based, AI-driven molecular design platform that automatically invents new molecular structures. MolGX, a part of IBM’s overarching strategy that aims to accelerate the discovery of new materials by 10 to 100 times, uncovers materials from the...…Please wait...Log OutFrom podcasts to Clubhouse, branded audio is more important than ever. Learn how brands are increasing customer loyalty and personalization with these best practices.Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. .IBM today announced the launch of the Molecule Generation Experience (MolGX), a cloud-based, AI-driven molecular design platform that automatically invents new molecular structures. MolGX, a part of IBM’s overarching strategy that aims to accelerate the discovery of new materials by 10 to 100 times, uncovers materials from the...WW…

ChatGPT might’ve captured the world’s attention. But DeepMind, the Google-owned research lab, claims that its next large language model will rival — or even best — OpenAI’s. According to a piece in Wired, DeepMind is using techniques from AlphaGo, DeepMind’s AI system that was the first to defeat a professional human player at the board game Go, to make a ChatGPT-rivaling chatbot called Gemini. If all goes according to plan, Gemini will have the ability to plan or solve problems as well as analyze text, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told Wired’s Will Knight. “At a high level you can think of...…ChatGPT might’ve captured the world’s attention. But DeepMind, the Google-owned research lab, claims that its next large language model will rival — or even best — OpenAI’s. According to a piece in Wired, DeepMind is using techniques from AlphaGo, DeepMind’s AI system that was the first to defeat a professional human player at the board game Go, to make a ChatGPT-rivaling chatbot called Gemini. If all goes according to plan, Gemini will have the ability to plan or solve problems as well as analyze text, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told Wired’s Will Knight. “At a high level you can think of...WW…