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Zoom Turns to Nvidia’s Nemotron to Power Its AI Companion and New 49B-Parameter LLM

Zoom has partnered with Nvidia to add the chipmaker’s Nemotron technology to its federated AI architecture. The integration aims to strengthen Zoom’s AI Companion, enabling it to support better those organizations in finance, healthcare, and government—all regulated spaces. In addition, Nemotron is being used to fine-tune a new 49-billion-parameter Large Language Model (LLM). “With the […]

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Adobe AI Foundry Builds Custom Generative Models for Brands

Adobe is launching a new service called the Adobe AI Foundry, designed to help businesses build their own custom generative AI models. Much like Intel’s chip foundry, Adobe’s version aims to do the same for AI, offering companies a framework to design and train models on their own data. These LLMs will be built on […]

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Luma Taps Adobe’s Firefly as Exclusive Third-Party Launch Partner for Ray3 Video Model

If you’re looking to try out Luma’s new Ray3 video model, there are only two places to do it, at least for the next couple of weeks: either on the Dream Machine platform or through the Adobe Firefly app. The generative AI startup has granted Adobe exclusive access to the model ahead of its broader […]

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Ai2’s FlexOlmo Lets You Co-Develop AI Language Models Without Sharing Data

Ai2 has unveiled FlexOlmo, a new framework that lets multiple organizations jointly develop language models without requiring centralized data pooling. Ideal for those in regulated industries, it provides developers with granular control over how and when their data influences the model, addressing long-standing concerns regarding privacy, IP protection, and data sovereignty in collaborative AI projects. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Microsoft Adds Model Tuning to M365 Copilot to Build Domain-Specific AI

Microsoft is adding a new feature to its Microsoft 365 (M365) Copilot assistant that transforms it into a domain expert. Announced at Microsoft Build 2025, the feature is called Copilot Tuning and is a low-code service allowing developers to train models on an organization’s own data without needing the assistance of data scientists. Imagine a […]

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ServiceNow and Nvidia Debut Apriel Nemotron 15B, an Open-Source Reasoning Model Built for Faster, Cheaper Agentic AI

ServiceNow and Nvidia have had a long-standing partnership building generative AI solutions for the enterprise. This week, at ServiceNow’s Knowledge customer conference, the two are introducing the latest fruits of their labor, a new large language model called Apriel Nemotron 15B with reasoning capabilities. The companies believe it performs as well as OpenAI’s o1-mini, Alibaba’s […]

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Microsoft’s New Phi-4 Variants Show Just How Far Small AI Can Go

Microsoft is doubling down on small language models with new Phi-4 variants that aim to prove a bold idea: small AI can think big. The new Phi-4-reasoning, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, and Phi-4-mini-reasoning models are optimized for complex tasks, such as math and coding, and outperform much larger models while running on devices with limited resources. While we […]

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AWS Releases Amazon Nova Premier, Its ‘Most Capable Model’ for Complex Task

Months after Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy first introduced the world to the Nova foundation model family, the company has released what might be its top-of-the-line variant, Amazon Nova Premier. Billed as Amazon’s “most capable model,” it can process text, images, and video (though not audio yet) and tackle complex, multi-step tasks that demand precise […]