OpenAI Created Her: The Birth of GPT-4o

Image generated with Midjourney. In a groundbreaking move, OpenAI has unveiled GPT-4o, a revolutionary model that marks a significant leap towards more natural and fluid human-computer interactions. The “o” in GPT-4o stands for “omni,” underscoring its unprecedented ability to handle text, audio, and visual inputs and outputs seamlessly. The Unveiling of GPT-4o OpenAI’s GPT-4o is …

pfl-research: Simulation Framework for Accelerating Research in Private Federated Learning

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging ML training paradigm where clients own their data and collaborate to train a global model without revealing any data to the server and other participants. Researchers commonly perform experiments in a simulation environment to quickly iterate on ideas. However, existing open-source tools do not offer the efficiency required to …

The CFO’s role in the age of generative AI

CFOs are the stewards of investment capital, orchestrating a movement with transformative technology and innovation to evolve businesses, accelerate revenue streams and drive meaningful outcomes. The current business environment has CFOs facing headwinds for decision-making in less-than-ideal conditions with rapidly shifting regulations, tedious reporting standards, ESG requirements and inflationary pressures; however, the need for growth …

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RAG architecture with Voyage AI embedding models on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and Anthropic Claude 3 models

This post is a guest post co-written with Tengyu Ma and Wen Phan from Voyage AI. Organizations today have access to vast amounts of data, much of it proprietary, which holds the potential to unlock valuable insights when used effectively in generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a powerful technique designed …

Vertex AI at I/O: Bringing new Gemini and Gemma models to Google Cloud customers

Vertex AI is Google Cloud’s fully-managed, unified development platform for leveraging models at scale, with a selection of over 150 first-party, open, and third-party foundation models; for customizing models with enterprise-ready tuning, grounding, monitoring, and deployment capabilities; and for building AI agents.  Customers such as ADT, IHG Hotels & Resorts, ING Bank, Verizon, and more …