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peek at what could come, you can check out our story from Friday. But the timing
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forecast that we’ll likely run out of high-quality language data needed for
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companies have improved their large... I was catching up with the new AI Index
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WHY MANY AI STARTUPS ARE CONSULTANCIES POSING AS SOFTWARE BUSINESSES

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Apr 17, 2024 7:00am PDT · 3 comments
There are plenty of reasons generative artificial intelligence hasn’t taken off
with businesses as much as pundits expected, including high costs and errors
(i.e. hallucinations). One less-discussed reason is that conversational AI is
simply hard to use. Big companies outside of tech can’t often hire the kind of
technical talent needed to make... There are plenty of reasons generative
artificial intelligence hasn’t taken off with businesses...
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WHEN DOES ‘FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT’ JUST BECOME ‘FAKING IT’?; THE HISTORY OF
‘PLAGIARISM’ IN AI

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Apr 16, 2024 7:00am PDT
Fame can be a double-edged sword—a lesson some artificial intelligence startups
are learning the hard way.Take Devin, the AI-powered coding assistant developed
by Cognition AI that went viral when it launched last month with an impressive
demo showing how it could complete coding jobs on the freelance site Upwork.
Techies across X and Reddit... Fame can be a double-edged sword—a lesson some
artificial intelligence startups are learning the...
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GOOGLE CLOUD’S AI STRATEGY IS STARTING TO SOUND LIKE AWS’

By Anissa Gardizy · Apr 15, 2024 7:00am PDT
I’m back in San Francisco after a busy week in Las Vegas, where my colleague Jon
Victor and I spent days talking to Google Cloud customers about the difference
between generative artificial intelligence hype and reality. At one point during
the conference, I was sitting at a table in a chilly Mandalay Bay conference
room when I heard a... I’m back in San Francisco after a busy week in Las Vegas,
where my colleague Jon Victor and I...
A New Wave of Foundation Model Developers Is Coming
By Stephanie Palazzolo · Apr 11, 2024 7:20am PDT
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A NEW WAVE OF FOUNDATION MODEL DEVELOPERS IS COMING

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Apr 11, 2024 7:20am PDT
For months, venture capitalists have been telling me the same thing: the
foundation model game is over. Between OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Google and
dozens of open-source model developers, there’s just no way for a company
developing a new large language model to break into the market. In recent weeks,
though, VCs have modified that stance... For months, venture capitalists have
been telling me the same thing: the foundation model game is...
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