Large Language Models news and trends

Meta’s Zuckerberg Touts AI Progress but Warns of ‘Serious Infrastructure’
Meta // October 30, 2024

The old saying is you’ve got to spend money to make money. For Meta, notching a third quarter earnings report with record revenues, the fact remains that the long-term artificial intelligence (AI) roadmap will require as yet undefined billions of dollars of capital investments in...

Report: AI Search Company Perplexity Aims to Raise $500 Million
artificial intelligence // October 20, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) search company Perplexity is reportedly looking to raise about $500 million in a new funding round that would value it at $8 billion. The company has mentioned these figures in talks with investors, though the terms could change and the funding might...

Apple Says AI’s Math Skills Fall Short
artificial intelligence // October 18, 2024

Recent findings from Apple researchers have cast doubt on the mathematical prowess of large language models (LLMs), challenging the notion that artificial intelligence (AI) is on the brink of human-like reasoning. In a test of 20 state-of-the-art LLMs, performance on grade-school math problems plummeted when questions...

Google’s Drug Discovery LLM Signals Shift Toward Industry-Specific Approach
artificial intelligence // October 16, 2024

Google DeepMind has developed an AI model to predict key properties of potential drugs, aiming to accelerate pharmaceutical research. The new Tx-LLM (Therapeutic Large Language Model) model exemplifies a shift toward specialized artificial intelligence tools for specific industries. This targeted approach could prove more valuable...

Interviews & Exclusives
Meta’s Zuckerberg Touts AI Progress but Warns of ‘Serious Infrastructure’

October 30, 2024
The old saying is you’ve got to spend money to make money. For Meta, notching a third quarter earnings report with record revenues, the fact remains that the long-term artificial intelligence (AI) roadmap will require as yet undefined billions of dollars of capital investments in the next year and beyond. The read across might be […]

Walmart and Amazon Turn to GenAI and Ditch the ‘Search’ Bar

October 11, 2024
As Walmart and Amazon compete to provide the best online shopping experiences, both are increasing their use of generative AI (GenAI) to improve search offerings. The former announced Wednesday (Oct....

Anthropic’s New Feature Allows Businesses to Reuse Prompt Information

August 14, 2024
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has debuted a new feature for its large language models (LLMs) aimed at reducing costs and improving performance for businesses using its AI. The company’s “Prompt...

GenAI Giants Unleash New Models With More Business Capabilities

July 29, 2024
In a move that’s sending ripples through the tech and business worlds, Meta Platforms has unveiled its most advanced AI models yet, challenging industry leaders OpenAI and Google. The release...

Quick Reads
OpenAI CEO: Computing Capacity Is Slowing Product Rollouts

November 03, 2024
OpenAI’s CEO says a dearth of computing capacity is hindering his company’s product rollouts. “All of these models have gotten quite complex,” Sam Altman wrote in a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session when asked why OpenAI’s next artificial intelligence (AI) models were taking so long. “We also face a lot of limitations and hard […]

Report: AI Search Company Perplexity Aims to Raise $500 Million

October 20, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) search company Perplexity is reportedly looking to raise about $500 million in a new funding round that would value it at $8 billion. The company has mentioned...

AWS Makes Meta’s Llama 3.2 LLMs Available to Customers

September 25, 2024
Meta’s Llama 3.2 multilingual large language models (LLMs) are now generally available in Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker and via Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) using AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia. This availability will offer...

AI’s Language Leaps May Speak to Business Frontier’s Shift

September 12, 2024
New research is shedding light on how artificial intelligence language models handle multiple languages, a capability with potential implications for global commerce. African tech firms have also launched tools supporting...