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1. Microsoft and ServiceNow Expanding Alliance
Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft and Santa Clara, California-based ServiceNow, a digital workflow company, are extending their strategic alliance. The companies are combining their generative AI capabilities through a ServiceNow Now Assist and Microsoft Copilot integration. The integration is intended to bring together two GenAI assistants into one enterprise experience and help employees improve productivity.2. Google DeepMind Releases AlphaFold 3
Googe DeepMind introduced AlphaFold 3, an AI model developed with Isomorphic Labs. The model is designed to predict the structure of proteins, DNA, RNA and ligands and how they interact. Google DeepMind believes the model could “transform” understanding of the biological world and drug discovery.3. OpenAI Building Media Manager
San Francisco-based OpenAI is developing a Media Manager tool that would let content owners manage “how their works are used in AI.” Creators would tell OpenAi what they own and how they’d like their works to be “included or excluded" from machine learning research and training. The company will do ML research to help it identify copyrighted content and “reflect creator preferences.” OpenAI hopes to have Media Manager in place by 2025.4. Apple Introduces M4 Chip
Cupertino, California-based Apple unveiled its M4, a system on chip (SoC) being used in the new iPad Pro. The M4 includes Apple’s fastest neural engine — capable of up to 38 trillion operations per second — which the company says is faster than the neural processing unit of “any AI PC today.” The M4 features ML accelerators in the CPU and a 10-core GPU that enable the iPad Pro as a device ”for artificial intelligence.”5. OpenAI Developing Web Search
OpenAI is reportedly working on a ChatGPT feature that would deliver web search results with cited sources, according to Bloomberg. The development is also using “images alongside.”
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6. Meta Extends GenAI for Ads
Menlo Park, California-based Meta is rolling out expanded generative AI features for advertisers, including full image generation based on original creative and text generation for headline and ad copy variations. The features are intended to help advertisers improve ad performance through creative variations and automate parts of the ad creation process. Meta started rolling out the features, and it hopes to release them globally by the end of the year.7. Amazon Previewing Bedrock Studio
Seattle-based Amazon introduced Amazon Bedrock Studio, a web-based place for developers to build generative AI applications. The studio is designed to provide a rapid prototyping environment with several Amazon Bedrock features, such as knowledge bases, agents and guardrails. It is currently available in public preview in the US East and US West AWS regions.8. RedHat Partnering With Stability AI
Raleigh, North Carolina-based Red Hat, an open-source software provider, and Stability AI, an open-source AI company, are working together to integrate Stability AI’s open GenAI models within Red Hat OpenShift AI. The collaboration is intended to help OpenShift AI users “more easily” access open-source LLMs to develop, test and produce “proofs of concept” for AI. Stability AI’s models support GenAI use cases using images, video, audio, 3D, code and language.9. Samsung Medison Acquiring Sonio
Seoul, South Korea-based Samsung Medison, a medical equipment maker, signed an agreement to acquire all the shares of Paris-based Sonio, a provider of AI prenatal software. Sonio, founded in 2020, offers AI assistant features for obstetrics and gynecology ultrasound that help users evaluate and document exams. Sonio will remain an independent company, and its products will remain compatible with “all” ultrasound device makers. 10. Sprinklr Launches Digital Twin
New York-based Sprinklr, a customer experience management platform, introduced Sprinklr Digital Twin. The technology, powered by Sprinklr AI+, is designed to help companies build and deploy autonomous AI applications that can “mirror and enhance” the capabilities of customer-facing teams. Sprinklr says the digital twin can make decisions, plan actions, design workflows and execute tasks “at scale.” The offering is currently available to a “small set of definition partners.”
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