Military contractor Primer announces $69M to build AI for ‘those who support and defend our democracy’
Primer announces $69M to grow out its AI platform and products delivering necessary tools to those who support and defend democracy.Read More
Gentle Brain Stimulation Can Improve Memory During Sleep
Stimulating the frontal lobes of sleeping epilepsy patients improved their recall of information—and may one day help treat Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s.
Hybrid AI-powered computer vision combines physics and big data
Researchers from UCLA and the United States Army Research Laboratory have laid out a new approach to enhance artificial intelligence-powered computer vision technologies by adding physics-based awareness to data-driven techniques.
Palantir Mentors Help College Students Tackle Climate Resiliency Challenge
There’s never a shortage of opportunity at Palantir to make an impact, as several Palantirians recently demonstrated by mentoring a group of Morehouse College students tackling a project that leverages open data to address climate resiliency. Each year, The Opportunity Project (TOP), sponsored by Census Open Innovation Labs at the U.S. Census Bureau, hosts a …
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Function calling and other API updates
We’re announcing updates including more steerable API models, function calling capabilities, longer context, and lower prices.
Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2
Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala, Javier Fernandez-Ivern, Anup Rokkam Pratap, Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. Behind these perfect moments of entertainment is a complex mechanism, with numerous gears and cogs working in harmony. But what …
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The benefits of automated attack surface management
Can security teams keep up with attack surface risks without automated processes? Survey data indicates that the answer is no. In a 2023 survey of IT and cybersecurity professionals, nearly three-quarters (72%) said attack surface discovery alone takes more than 40 person-hours to complete. That does not include the additional time it takes for security …
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Enabling delightful user experiences via predictive models of human attention
Posted by Junfeng He, Senior Research Scientist, and Kai Kohlhoff, Staff Research Scientist, Google Research People have the remarkable ability to take in a tremendous amount of information (estimated to be ~1010 bits/s entering the retina) and selectively attend to a few task-relevant and interesting regions for further processing (e.g., memory, comprehension, action). Modeling human …
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How Forethought saves over 66% in costs for generative AI models using Amazon SageMaker
This post is co-written with Jad Chamoun, Director of Engineering at Forethought Technologies, Inc. and Salina Wu, Senior ML Engineer at Forethought Technologies, Inc. Forethought is a leading generative AI suite for customer service. At the core of its suite is the innovative SupportGPT technology which uses machine learning to transform the customer support lifecycle—increasing deflection, …
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Rendered.ai Integrates NVIDIA Omniverse for Synthetic Data Generation
Rendered.ai is easing AI training for developers, data scientists and others with its platform-as-a-service for synthetic data generation, or SDG. Training computer vision AI models requires massive, high-quality, diverse and unbiased datasets. These can be challenging and costly to obtain, especially with increasing demands both of and for AI. The Rendered.ai platform-as-a-service helps to solve …
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