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Salesforce Unveils Agentforce 2.0, Bringing AI Agents to Slack and Introducing Advanced Atlas Reasoning
As AI agents take center stage in 2024, Salesforce is fully leaning into the trend. In October, the cloud computing company launched Agentforce, a platform that lets anyone quickly build advanced AI bots and connect them to enterprise data. Two months later, it’s introducing its next-generation AI agent offering, which aims to redefine “AI agents across […]
AWS Adds New Models, Caching, and Data Integration to Amazon Bedrock
If you thought Amazon Web Services (AWS) was done revealing updates to Amazon Bedrock, you’re in for a surprise. After all, it’s the centerpiece of the company’s push to bring inference to all applications. That said, the generative AI development platform is receiving another slate of features and capabilities now generally available or in preview. […]
AWS Launches an Amazon Bedrock Marketplace With More Than 100 Models
Amazon Web Services announced the creation of a marketplace within Amazon Bedrock from which developers can easily find and install popular, emerging, and specialized language models. Although the company’s fully managed service for building and scaling generative AI applications already supports multiple models, this marketplace enables developers to swap out the LLM without requiring direct […]
AWS Expands Amazon Bedrock with Automated Reasoning, Multi-Agent Collaboration, and Model Distillation
Amazon Bedrock, the fully managed service for building and scaling generative AI applications, is receiving new features to help developers move more quickly from proof of concept to go-to-market. The company announced at its 2024 re:Invent conference that the platform is gaining enhanced safeguards, the ability to orchestrate multiple agents, and the ability to create […]
Hugging Face Introduces SmolVLM, a 2B Model for Multimodal AI on Edge Devices
AI startup Hugging Face has released an open-source family of compact visual language models named SmolVLM. With two billion parameters, it’s built for on-device inference, which the company claims outperforms similar models with comparable GPU RAM usage and token throughputs. Three models are available at launch: SmolVLM-Base, which offers downstream fine-tuning; SmolVLM-Synthetic, a fine-tuned variant […]
Luma AI Releases Its Photon Text-to-Image Model, Unveils Dream Machine Subscription Plan
Luma AI, the startup known for Dream Machine, is introducing Photon, a new text-to-image foundation model designed for professionals, creative artists, small businesses, and educators. Boasting speeds and costs 800 percent better than comparable models, Photon aims to bring the success it found with video generation to other visual areas. Alongside the launch, Luma AI […]
Ai2 Releases Tulu 3 to Unlock the Open-Source Post-Training Black Box
Ai2 has introduced an addition to its Tulu suite of models to level the playing field between open-source and proprietary closed models in post-training performance. Coming nearly a year after its predecessor, Tulu 3 aims to help models avoid forgetting core skills when undergoing specialized training, such as following instructions, coding, doing math, having knowledge […]
Stripe Releases SDK Enabling Payment and Billing Capabilities for AI Agents
Stripe has introduced a new software development kit (SDK) to integrate its financial technology seamlessly into AI-driven workflows. With the Stripe agent toolkit, bots will be able to engage in monetary transactions, helping to earn and spend funds, provide troubleshooting, and provide bills for usage with metered billing. The new SDK supports AI agents built […]
Augment Code Unveils AI-Powered Coding Tool to Challenge GitHub Copilot’s Dominance
Six months after raising a $227 million Series B round of funding, Augment Code is finally revealing its secret: it’s building an alternative to GitHub’s Copilot. It’s billed as a developer AI made for teams capable of understanding codebase and how engineers build software. “Our deep understanding of our customer’s software and how it is […]
GitHub: Developers Have Embraced AI, but Companies Are Slow to Catch Up
Software developers in the workplace have embraced artificial intelligence as an integral part of helping them do their jobs. A new study from GitHub reveals that 97 percent of engineers are using AI coding tools at some point. However, the companies they work for have been much slower in adopting AI tools and technologies—40 percent […]