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Tag: AI Development
Hugging Face Ends HuggingChat, Teases More Integrated Future
Hugging Face has shut down HuggingChat, at least for now. The open-source AI platform launched its ChatGPT-rival chatbot in April 2023 to demonstrate the power of open-source models. Chief Technology Officer Julien Chaumond announced the closure on LinkedIn, explaining that the team is “making room for something new and more integrated with the [Hugging Face] […]
Ai2’s SciArena Benchmarks AI for Science, Inspired by ChatBot Arena
Nonprofit AI lab Ai2 has launched a new platform to help researchers evaluate which AI models perform best on scientific literature tasks. Called SciArena, it’s an open, collaborative service that enables head-to-head comparisons of large language models. Think ChatBot Arena—but built for the scientific research community. “Measuring progress in using AI agents for literature-grounded scientific […]
Salesforce Wants to Scale Digital Labor. Agentforce 3 Is the Plan.
Salesforce is scaling up its agentic development platform, adding features to help organizations embrace the hybrid workforce paradigm. Agentforce 3 is the latest in a series of rapid-fire innovations from the enterprise tech giant. This release introduces a new Command Center for overseeing AI agents, adds support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) across Agentforce […]
Inside AWS’s Global Accelerator for the Generative AI Era
Last December, I sat inside the theatre at the Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, the home of world-famous magician Shin Lim. Only, I’m not there to see a sleight-of-hand spectacle—I’m there to watch the inaugural “Unicorn Tank,” a startup pitch competition put on by Amazon Web Services (AWS) held during its re:Invent conference. […]
AI Isn’t Taking Jobs—It’s Making Workers More Valuable
IN THIS ISSUE: Unpack the AI jobs paradox—why AI isn’t replacing workers en masse (yet), but is already reshaping the workforce in profound ways. PwC’s AI jobs barometer reveals who’s thriving, who’s at risk, and why upskilling is urgent. Plus, explore Salesforce’s latest power move to lock down Slack data and what it means for […]
10 Charts That Define the AI Boom, According to Mary Meeker
IN THIS ISSUE: Dig into key insights from Mary Meeker’s latest AI report, a sweeping 340-slide analysis that breaks down where adoption is accelerating, how innovation is evolving, and what it means for the future of technology. The Prompt Investor Mary Meeker’s reports are among the most closely watched in the industry, with entrepreneurs, investors, […]
HubSpot Connects Its CRM With ChatGPT to Deliver Smarter Customer Insights
HubSpot is bringing more artificial intelligence into its CRM platform through a new integration with OpenAI. The company has introduced a “deep research connector” with ChatGPT, enabling small and medium-sized businesses to perform advanced analysis and generate deeper insights using their customer data and context. “We’re building tools that help businesses lead through the AI […]
Ai2’s RewardBench 2 Is a Tougher Benchmark for Testing How Well AI Models Reflect Human Judgment
Ai2 has released an update to its RewardBench benchmark, making it more capable of evaluating reward models. The next-generation test is built using new, more complex examples to assess how accurately AI models can produce answers that are as accurate as those of a human. In its first round of testing, RewardBench 2 ranks Google’s […]
Microsoft’s Project Amelie Is an Experiment in ‘AI Developing AI’
Microsoft Build featured a flurry of product announcements. But beyond the official launches, the company also offered a glimpse into its frontier projects—experimental inventions that may never be released to the public but serve to showcase the ideas Microsoft is exploring. One such effort is codenamed Project Amelie, an AI agent capable of building machine […]
Microsoft Pushes AI to the Edge
IN THIS ISSUE: Microsoft pushes AI innovation to the edge. Will OpenAI crack the AI hardware market, a space where many have stumbled, after acquiring Sir Jony Ive’s AI startup for nearly $6.5 billion? Plus, catch up on this week’s key headlines you might have missed, including what was announced at Google I/O and the […]