• AI tools from Microsoft and Google are just streamlining middle management, leading AI expert says: WSJ

    Microsoft and Google rolled out their own AI-powered productivity tools last year, touting them as products that could revolutionize how people work.But one leading AI expert thinks otherwise.Ethan Mollick, a professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, has been tapped by the White House, JP Morgan, Google, and many others for his insights on artificial intelligence.In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mollick said Microsoft's Copilot and...

  • AI Briefing: Cloud giants’ AI ambitions create new partnerships — and new competitive concerns

    Last week, tech companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon all announced updates more updates for their cloud and AI efforts

  • Tessier-Lavigne leads new AI biopharma startup

    Former Stanford president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, is the CEO of new biopharma startup, Xaira. The startup already has $1 billion in investments and seeks to use AI to generate molecules to treat diseases.

  • Microsoft Unveils New "Dramatically Cheaper" AI Model

    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.

  • Microsoft's AI lead puts Amazon cloud dominance on watch

    Upcoming quarterly reports from U.S. tech giants may show Microsoft is closing the gap on cloud-computing market leader Amazon.com as more businesses switch to its services, attracted by a clutch of generative AI features that are powered by OpenAI's technology. The Redmond, Washington-based software giant has beaten rivals Amazon and Google-parent Alphabet to the market with AI services including the Copilot, a set of genAI tools that work in Microsoft's business apps, that was rolled out in...

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    Microsoft and Estée Lauder team up to launch a new AI Innovation Lab

    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.

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    The Mona Lisa rapping? New Microsoft AI animates faces from photos

    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

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    The Mona Lisa rapping? New Microsoft AI animates faces from photos

    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

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    The Mona Lisa rapping? New Microsoft AI animates faces from photos

    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

  • Google’s Rick Osterloh to Lead New Team Focused on AI

    Google wants to bring Android and its Pixel brand closer than ever, with a good dash of AI sprinkled in between.

  • Google is set to invest over $100 billion in AI, DeepMind founder says

    According to Demis Hassabis, the child prodigy who founded DeepMind, Google is likely to invest more than $100 billion in AI technology and applications in the near future. DeepMind is a British-American research laboratory that has been working on AI since 2010. Google acquired the company in 2014.Read Entire Article

  • Google will outpace Microsoft in AI investment, DeepMind CEO says

    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...