We have all been guilty of falling under the foundation model spell of the past year-and-a-half, initiated by OpenAI’s unveiling of ChatGPT to the public. But it is not only where large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 are concerned that incredible progress has been made in the field of artificial intelligence. And one company has been behind more impressive milestones than most — DeepMind, acquired by Google in 2014 for a reported £400mn to £650mn. Speaking at the TED 40th...
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Honasa Consumer, the parent company of beauty and personal care (BPC) brand Mamaearth, said its active ingredients-backed skincare brand, The Derma Co, has achieved an annual revenue run rate (ARR) of Rs 500 crore. ARR is a metric to forecast the financial performance of a company over a year based on past earnings data.According to the company, this was driven by the creation of brands offering specialised products tailored for Indian skin and weather conditions. It emphasised product...
Manchester United have confirmed the appointment of Jason Wilcox. The 53-year-old will start his new role at Old Trafford with immediate effect. If Erik ten Hag wins the FA Cup with Man United, does he deserve to keep his job? Listen to the
Last week, tech companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon all announced updates more updates for their cloud and AI efforts
In a lab in London, a new generation of avatars is learning to smile, frown and wink — not just as programmed, but in response to human emotions conveyed through text. Backed by Nvidia, Synthesia’s latest creation aims to mimic and deeply understand feelings, turning every digital interaction into a near-human experience. As these emotional avatars […]
Microsoft looks to expand its AI models' accessibility with a new, cheaper model. Microsoft has unveiled a new artificial intelligence that the tech giant boasts as a "dramatically cheaper" model, dubbed Phi-3-mini.
As you may remember, Mustafa Suleyman became the CEO of AI at Microsoft and then shortly after we heard that Mikhail Parakhin stepped down as the head of Bing Search and Microsoft Advertising. Since then, Mikhail Parakhin has been very quiet on X, but he did post one response this week on Mustafa Suleyman.Steve Jurvetson posted a summary of Mustafa Suleyman's talk at a TED event on X that is getting a lot of attention (and the image above it from him), he wrote:The new CEO of Microsoft AI,...
Microsoft has announced a new collaboration with the beauty company Estée Lauder to create a new AI Innovation Lab to help speed up product development for Estée Lauder's beauty brands.
Digital transformation is the name of the game — and that’s great news for Microsoft. The company, which reported its Fiscal Year 2024 Q3 earnings results on Thursday (April 25), has seen ongoing enterprise digitization fuel a greater appetite across the business landscape for innovations like artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services — innovations that Microsoft […]
Microsoft has introduced an upgraded lineup of small AI models, Phi-3. The family includes Phi-3 Mini with 3.8 billion parameters, Phi-3 Small with 7 billion, and Phi-3 Medium with 14 billion.
CNN By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — The Mona Lisa can now do more than smile, thanks to new artificial intelligence technology from Microsoft. Last week, Microsoft researchers detailed a new AI model they’ve developed that can take a still image of a face and an audio clip of someone speaking and automatically