India’s homegrown AI start-up, Sarvam AI, is nearing a $300-350 million funding round as it aims to build a domestic player to rival leading players from the US and China, Bloomberg reported. The Bengaluru-based company is planning to raise the funding at a valuation of $1.5-1.55 billion.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has warned that the world is on the edge of an ‘AI tsunami’ that could reshape economies, geopolitics, and the very nature of work. Speaking on Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath’s podcast, Amodei said society is not fully prepared for the speed at which AI is advancing. He compared the upcoming surge…
Companies like Meta and IBM are exploring explore how AI can hyper-personalize ads, drawing from our chat histories, playing to our unique fears and vanities. A billboard tries to sell you something. So does a used car salesman. But no matter how smooth the pitch, you’re quite aware of the profit motive, and you can…
The Sydney-based AAAI Fellow joins the UNSW Business AI Lab to lead a team of Distinguished AI Scientists, in the latest step of Commonwealth Bank’s frontier-AI build-out. Commonwealth Bank of Australia appointed Professor Mary-Anne Williams as its first Chief AI Scientist on Monday, recruiting one of the country’s best-known AI researchers from the University of…
AI-based assistants or “agents” — autonomous programs that have access to the user’s computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task — are growing in popularity with developers and IT workers. But as so many eyebrow-raising headlines over the past few weeks have shown, these powerful and assertive new tools are rapidly shifting…
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Key Points Anthropic uses Amazon and Alphabet’s cloud computing platforms to train its model. Both companies are slated for massive upside over the next few years. I’d argue that no other generative AI company has created as much buzz around AI as Anthropic. Its Claude Mythos model was so impressive that it required a coalition…
