The term “generative AI” refers to a new class of Natural Language Processing (NLP) foundational models, such as the OpenAI ChatGPT and DALL-E, the Google BARD chatbot, the ERNIE Artificial Intelligence (AI) model from Baidu, and others. With the help of these models, users can create text and code, make predictions and summaries, translate across…
UmojaHack Africa 2023, a 2-day event for data scientists that aims to solve Africa’s toughest challenges through machine learning, was hosted by Zindi, the network for data scientists, on March 18–19, 2023. It brought together over 1000 students from 345 universities in 36 countries to create machine learning models for climate change. With over 1000…
Google, a division of the digital behemoth Alphabet, has unveiled its newest AI technologies. These tools will serve as add-ons to currently available services, such as Workspace apps, and aid with tasks like summarizing Gmail message threads, creating slide presentations, and taking meeting notes. In its most recent version, Google Pictures, Google Messages, and Gmail…
When LinkedIn began distributing “AI-powered conversation starters” earlier this month to increase engagement on its platform, the move saw more than a little engagement of its own, none of it particularly favorable. Yet the reality is that LinkedIn has been heavily utilizing AI and other forms of automation throughout various elements of its platform for…
According to a business executive who spoke to Reuters, General Motors is investigating uses for ChatGPT as part of its broader partnership with Microsoft. According to GM Vice President Scott Miller, “ChatGPT is going to be in everything” in a recent interview. According to Miller, the chatbot may be used to program features like a…
A new generative AI tool called GrammarlyGo is being added to the artificial intelligence (AI) arsenal of Grammarly, a firm that offers a real-time spelling and grammar checking tool. Starting in April, the majority of Grammarly users will have access to this communication-improving tool. Rahul Roy-Chowdhury, Global Head of Product at Grammarly, claims that ineffective…
Snap announced on Monday that it is testing a chatbot feature based on OpenAI’s GPT technology for some users of its photo messaging app Snapchat. The My AI feature will use the most recent version of OpenAI’s GPT technology, which has been customized for Snapchat. The AI chatbot will first be available to Snapchat+ subscribers…
Nobody is immune to the generative AI wave, and everyone wants to be a part of it. Meta is the most recent company to begin testing AI-powered tools for its products. Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company is creating “a new top-level product group” to integrate generative AI into its billions of users’ services. Zuckerberg…
Opera is expanding its sidebar with a ChatGPT-powered tool that generates brief summaries of webpages and articles. You can activate the feature by selecting the “shorten” button to the right of the address bar, as shown in a demo included in Opera’s blog post. From there, a ChatGPT sidebar will appear on the left, generating…
After a presentation of its brand-new artificial intelligence chatbot, Bard, raised worries that the tech titan has fallen behind in the contest for the foreseeable future of internet search, Alphabet Inc. had its biggest one-day decline in more than three months. Since the unveiling of developer OpenAI’s enormously well-liked chatbot, ChatGPT, which many in the…
Alphabet, the company that owns Google, plans to compete with Microsoft by introducing a chatbot service and more artificial intelligence for its search engine and developers. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced in a blog post on Monday that the business is launching a conversational AI service called Bard to gather user input before going live…
Next month, a “robot” lawyer powered by artificial intelligence will be the first of its kind to assist a defendant in fighting a traffic ticket in court. DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder stated that the company’s AI-creation runs on a smartphone, listens to court arguments, and formulates responses for the defendant. Through headphones, the AI lawyer…
Is artificial intelligence taking over the world? The latest “groundbreaking” AI chat bot, trained to interact with advanced users, is certainly causing quite a stir in the technology world. The software, known as ChatGPT and developed by the company OpenAI, is designed to generate human-like responses to a wide range of inputs using algorithms. “ChatGPT…
The global energy sector is experiencing a significant transition. Many energy and natural resource organisations are navigating a shift towards diverse renewable energy sources, setting out aggressive strategies for net zero and forging new paths to recruiting and protecting their workforce. This has resulted in Energy 4.0 emerging as the most direct route to achieving…
SAS was recently named as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Responsible Artificial Intelligence for Integrated Financial Crime Management Platforms 2022 Vendor Assessment (doc #US47457622, July 2022). The report offers IDC MarketScape’s first-ever comparative analysis of the banking industry’s top financial crime management solutions powered by AI. It includes SAS and eight other vendors – all offering standalone AI…
A $5.6 million Series A fundraising round, headed by Mucker Capital, was successfully completed by Proto, a Canadian company that offers artificial intelligence (AI) customer experience solutions. Current shareholder Yolo Investments also participated in the round. The company helps contact center operators automate client interactions in their local tongues, including the National Bank of Rwanda,…
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are changing the way we think about mobility – and transforming the digital network infrastructure that supports these vehicles. Soon, every car will be connected and able to talk to everything around it using Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) technology, including other cars and smart city infrastructure. But as with any connected computing…
DXwand, an Egyptian firm that specializes in conversational artificial intelligence (AI), has raised $1 million in a pre-series A financing. The funding round was led by Shanghai-based Huashan Capital. Mohsen Abulleil and Ahmed Bakeer, both angel investors, participated in the round. SOSV, a VC firm based in the United States that was one of the…
Through its early-stage tech investment company Naspers Foundry, Naspers has led a $2.5 million investment in LifeCheq, a fintech platform that enables financial advisers to provide quality, complete financial advice. Since its debut in 2018, LifeCheq has provided financial planning and help to over 45,000 people in South Africa. LifeCheq’s AI-powered platform can help financial…
FoondaMate, a South African edTech company, has raised $2 million in a seed round headed by LocalGlobe, a UK-based venture capital firm, to grow its Whatsapp and Facebook-based learning chatbot abroad. Other investors included Emerge Education, FirstCheckAfrica‘s Odunayo Eweniyi, Future Africa’s Iyin Aboyeji, and LoftyInc, as well as Luno’s Marcus Swanepoel and Justworks’ Isaac Oates….
Phindor, a Kenyan startup, has released a next-generation shop assistant system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to support local companies with record administration, data collection, and storage. Phindor originated as a website that helped customers find and compare prices for school supplies, but in 2018 it shifted its focus to data management and analysis. “We…
Neural Labs, a Kenyan startup, uses AI-enabled medical imaging to aid in the real-time diagnosis of various respiratory, heart, and breast diseases and pathologies. Neural Labs was founded in January 2021 by Tom Kinyanjui and Paul Mwaura Ndirangu, two machine learning engineers, with the goal of reducing Africa’s disease burden and hospital workloads while improving…
Elloe is a first-of-its-kind AI-powered conversational commerce platform that allows SMEs to buy and sell products online across any messaging platform. It was founded by Owen Sakawa. Mad Ventures, located in the Philippines, led the US$1 million pre-seed fundraising round, which would help Elloe expand across Kenya and other emerging economies. “The opportunity to engage…
Locstat, a Cape Town-based advanced analytics business, has raised capital as it prepares for expansion. Locstat is a graph-based AI and event processing solution for continuous analysis and visualisation of real-time and static data from a variety of sources, which was founded in 2016. The startup’s AI technology analyzes the link between data points and…
DilenyTech, an Egyptian deep technology healthcare startup that is developing innovative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for screening and diagnostic radiology workflow, has been acquired by Astute Imaging LLC of the United States. DilenyTech, which was founded in 2018, aims to revolutionize breast cancer screening and diagnostic workflow by offering innovative AI-based assistance for more accurate…
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Meta, has announced new artificial intelligence projects, believing that AI is “the key to unlocking the Metaverse.” Zuckerberg believes that the mobile internet’s future will be the metaverse, a futuristic concept of virtual spaces in which users can work, socialize, and play. In a livestreamed demonstration, he demonstrated the AI…
As the CEO of SaaS Partners, I have a front-row seat to the latest in technology. We advise and collaborate with the world’s best startups to help them leverage technology to optimize their operations and achieve serious scale. I can’t think of a single conversation I’ve had with a tech founder in the last year…
According to a person familiar with the matter, Apple acquired AI Music, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to generate tailor-made music, adding technology that could be used across its slate of audio offerings. In recent weeks, AI Music, a London-based company founded in 2016, was purchased. Prior to the acquisition, the company had about…
There’s a global race to develop the world’s largest, most powerful computers, and Meta (AKA Facebook) is ready to join the fray with the “AI Research SuperCluster,” or RSC. When fully operational, it might be one of the top ten fastest supercomputers in the world, used for the huge number-crunching required for language and computer…
When it comes to selecting the ideal AI project for their firm, business owners frequently rely on having the correct ingredients and knowing how to blend them. Almost every working AI system today operates according to some set of rules that are encoded in the system and effectively hold everything together. The ability of their…