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Intel and Others Join Open Platform for Enterprise AI
The LF AI & Data Foundation launched the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA), a sandbox project to champion the development of open, multi-provider and composable GenAI systems. OPEA intends to “collaborate with industry” to standardize components, including frameworks and architecture blueprints, that demonstrate performance, interoperability and trustworthiness. A number of initial organizations joined the project: Anyscale, Cloudera, Datastax, Domino Data Lab, Hugging Face, Intel, KX, MariaDB Foundation, Minio, Qdrant, Red Hat, SAS, VMware, Yellowbrick Data and Zilliz. Microsoft Investing $1.5B in G42
Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft is making a $1.5-billion strategic investment in G42, a U.A.E.-based AI holding company. The investment is intended to strengthen the companies’ work to bring Microsoft AI technologies and skilling initiatives to the U.A.E. and other countries. G42 and Microsoft will partner to bring AI and digital infrastructure to countries in the Middle East, central Asia and Africa.Massachusetts AG Issues AI Guidance on Civil Rights and Privacy
Andrea Joy Campbell, the attorney general of Massachusetts, issued an advisory to provide guidance to developers, suppliers and users of AI regarding their “obligations” under state consumer protection, anti-discrimination and data security laws. The advisory “clarifies” that existing state laws apply to emerging technology, including AI systems, “just as they would in any other context.” She said her office “intends to enforce these laws accordingly.”LinkedIn Introduces Premium Company Pages With AI
Sunnyvale, California-based LinkedIn is rolling out its Premium Company Page as a subscription. The product is intended to help pages stand out and “convert” members into customers. It gives users access to several features, including AI-powered assistance for writing posts to “enhance your notes and ideas.” LinkedIn is making the premium page available “gradually.”Snapchat Labeling AI Images
Santa Monica, California-based Snap will “soon” add a watermark to AI images created with Snapchat's generative AI tools. An AI-generated image “may” include a Snapchat logo with a sparkle icon. The company believes that users “should be informed about the types of technologies they’re using.”
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Stability AI Testing Stable Assistant
London-based Stability AI, an open-source GenAI company, is introducing its Stable Assistant, a chatbot built on its Stable Diffusion 3 text-to-image model. The assistant is designed to help users with content creation, including generating images from conversations and enhancing content with images. Stable Assistant is in beta and set up under four paid plans. Thomson Reuters Expands ‘Vision’ for CoCounsel
Toronto-based Thomson Reuters, a news and content company, is broadening its “vision” for CoCounsel, its GenAI assistant. Thomson Reuters plans for CoCounsel to “unify the entire customer experience” and help users access the company’s capabilities in several fields: law; tax, risk and fraud; and media. The company expects to link its “entire portfolio” to CoCounsel “over time.”Mentee Robotics Develops Humanoid Menteebot
Herzliya, Israel-based Mentee Robotics is introducing its Menteebot, a humanoid robot that incorporates task understanding powered by LLMs, an AI workload capability and redundant compute. The robot is designed with a semantic knowledge of the environment and several applications, such as warehouse automation.Brave Adds Answer With AI
San Francisco-based Brave, a browser and search engine provider, updated Brave Search with its Answer With AI feature. The tool is designed to provide answers with sources cited as well as traditional search results. Answer With AI is available for free to all users on desktop and mobile. Rivos Raises $250M
Santa Clara, California-based Rivos, a chip developer focused on GenAI and data analytics, secured over $250 million in its Series A-3 financing round, which included participation from Intel Capital and Dell Technologies Capital. Rivos, founded in 2021, will use the funds to expand its manufacturing operations, platform hardware, software engineering and support.
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