In the cutthroat world of artificial intelligence, tech behemoths are betting big on a new frontier: multimodal AI. As the shine of text-based chatbots dims, companies are gambling that the future belongs to AI assistants capable of seeing, hearing and conversing with users more naturally...
Smaller artificial intelligence (AI) models, like Microsoft’s recently unveiled Phi-3-mini, are proving that bigger isn’t always better for business applications. These lightweight, efficient models can tackle content creation and data analysis without the hefty computational requirements and costs associated with their larger counterparts, experts say, making AI more accessible and cost-effective...