AI & Big Data Expo: 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 experiences as a consultant helping C-level executives navigate the complex landscape of AI adoption. The core message revolved around...

7 December 2023 | Artificial Intelligence

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 in dubbed content. Experts believe this is one of the reasons why dubbing is relatively unpopular in English-speaking countries. In...

7 December 2023 | Applications

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.

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Gemini comes in three optimised versions: Ultra, Pro, and Nano. The Ultra model boasts...

6 December 2023 | Applications

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, Absci will deploy its pioneering generative AI...

4 December 2023 | Applications

AI & Big Data Expo: 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 AI in reducing noise and bias inherent in decision-making. Smith began by addressing the common perception of decision-making and the...

1 December 2023 | Applications

AWS and NVIDIA expand partnership to advance generative AI

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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 software, along with AWS technologies such as Nitro System...

29 November 2023 | Amazon

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 Inflection-2 outperforming Google's model on tests of reasoning ability, factual knowledge, and stylistic prowess.

On a...

23 November 2023 | Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic upsizes Claude 2.1 to 200K tokens, nearly doubling GPT-4

San Francisco-based AI startup Anthropic has unveiled Claude 2.1, an upgrade to its language model that boasts a 200,000-token context window—vastly outpacing the recently released 120,000-token GPT-4 model from OpenAI.  

The release comes on the heels of an expanded partnership with Google that provides Anthropic access to advanced processing hardware, enabling the substantial expansion of Claude's context-handling...

22 November 2023 | Applications

Microsoft recruits former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Co-Founder Greg Brockman

AI experts don’t stay jobless for long, as evidenced by Microsoft’s quick recruitment of former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Co-Founder Greg Brockman.

Altman, who was recently ousted by OpenAI’s board for reasons that have had no shortage of speculation, has found a new home at Microsoft. The announcement came after unsuccessful negotiations with OpenAI's board to reinstate Altman.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella...

20 November 2023 | Artificial Intelligence

Umbar Shakir, Gate One: Unlocking the power of generative AI ethically

Ahead of this year’s AI & Big Data Expo Global, Umbar Shakir, Partner and AI Lead at Gate One, shared her insights into the diverse landscape of generative AI (GenAI) and its impact on businesses.

From addressing the spectrum of use cases to navigating digital transformation, Shakir shed light on the challenges, ethical considerations, and the promising future of this groundbreaking technology.

Wide spectrum of use cases

Shakir highlighted the wide array of...

17 November 2023 | Artificial Intelligence