Emulate, a company founded in August by former Google DeepMind researchers, is in talks to raise up to $700 million in a new funding round. According to the Financial Times, this investment could value the startup at $3.7 billion, just…
Human expertise as a resource for AI models The artificial intelligence sector has started paying experts to use their knowledge to train and evaluate automated systems. Instead of creating algorithms from scratch, these professionals review generated responses, compare alternatives, develop…
High demand and a shortage of professionals The corporate world is undergoing a rapid shift in how it hires technology specialists. The push for automation and advanced data analysis has created a situation where there is a high demand for…
Smaller teams gain extra capacity A survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco found that nearly 40% of small businesses surveyed in 2024 were already using or planning to adopt artificial intelligence. In the United States, Butternut AI…
On Monday, 5th, OpenAI announced a new watermarking technology called textGrain, which will be applied to texts generated by ChatGPT and Codex. The feature will be enabled by default in the European Union and will be available as an optional…
Diogo Almeida, a former OpenAI researcher who helped develop the technology behind ChatGPT, launched his new startup, TypeSafe AI, on Monday, May 15. The company emerged from stealth mode with an initial $40 million funding round led by DCVC and…
A stuffed animal council for resolving corporate conflicts Daniela Amodei, president of Anthropic, once relied on a group of stuffed animals to reflect on management dilemmas. The cat Jinji suggested canceling meetings, the pink bear Maura demanded attention to detail,…
Autonomous negotiations between AI agents Anthropic conducted an experiment in which AI agents based on the Claude model represented employees in an internal marketplace. Each of the 69 participants was assigned a personalized agent that knew the products the employee…
Anthropic, the company behind AI model Claude, has opened a physical biology lab in the San Francisco Bay area of the United States. Known as a wet lab, the facility is designed for hands-on experiments, complementing the company’s existing computational…
In the early days of generative AI adoption, selecting a model was seen as a race for capability: the more advanced the technology, the higher the expectations for quality results. However, as businesses increasingly adopt AI, the focus is shifting.…
