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Allen Institute for Immunology and Seattle Children's Research Institute launch study to unravel molecular mysteries of pediatric IBD

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måndag, maj 13, 2024
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SEATTLE, May 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- With pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) diagnoses on the rise globally, a clinical trial in Seattle aims to transform treatment approaches through deep molecular profiling.

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  • SEATTLE, May 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- With pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) diagnoses on the rise globally , a clinical trial in Seattle aims to transform treatment approaches through deep molecular profiling.
  • Recruitment has begun for the Seattle STRIDE study , a joint effort by Seattle Children's Research Institute and the Allen Institute for Immunology .
  • "IBD is a very complex disease, and we only have a rough understanding of what is happening at a molecular level," she said.
  • "There is a universe of information that is not being seen," said Adam Savage , Ph.D., an Assistant Investigator at the Allen Institute for Immunology.

DOCUSIGN ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT TO ACQUIRE LEXION

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måndag, maj 6, 2024
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Docusign, (NASDAQ: DOCU) today announced its agreement to acquire Lexion, a leading provider of AI-powered agreement management software, for $165 million in cash, subject to customary adjustments. The acquisition will bolster Docusign's position in Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM), a growing SaaS category, and will add more powerful AI capabilities to the Docusign IAM platform.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, May 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Docusign, (NASDAQ: DOCU) today announced its agreement to acquire Lexion, a leading provider of AI-powered agreement management software, for $165 million in cash, subject to customary adjustments.
  • "We are thrilled to welcome Lexion to Docusign," said Allan Thygesen, Chief Executive Officer at Docusign.
  • "We will drive innovation, deliver greater value to both Docusign and Lexion customers, along with a broader organization that has a deep understanding of the agreement management space."
  • Lexion customers will gain from integrations with Docusign solutions while Lexion products will continue to be offered and improved for their hundreds of enterprise customers.

New study reveals the key role vision plays in sculpting brain development

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onsdag, april 24, 2024
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A study published today in Nature sheds new light on the brain's cellular landscape.

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  • A study published today in Nature sheds new light on the brain's cellular landscape.
  • Researchers at the Allen Institute for Brain Science used an advanced method called BARseq to swiftly classify and map millions of neurons across nine mouse brains.
  • The study underscores the pivotal role of sensory experiences in shaping and maintaining each brain region's unique cellular identity.
  • BARseq tags individual brain cells with unique RNA 'barcodes' to track their connections across the brain.

Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems to Launch in 2025

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torsdag, april 11, 2024
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The process aims to spark creative and novel ideas for transformative research.

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  • The process aims to spark creative and novel ideas for transformative research.
  • The first meeting of Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems will be held March 13 – 16, 2025, in Tucson, Arizona.
  • The series of meetings will complement The Kavli Foundation's Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems multi-year initiative launched in 2023, supporting research investigating how neural processes—including molecular, cellular, and circuit-level mechanisms—are impacted by or resilient to changing environments.
  • For full consideration as a Fellow for the first meeting of Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems, nominate yourself or an early career colleague by September 1, 2024.

TrueMedia.org Launches Free AI-Enabled Deepfake Detector to Help Newsrooms Across the Country

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tisdag, april 2, 2024
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View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240401746492/en/

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  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240401746492/en/
    The free tool is currently available to government officials, fact checkers, campaign staff, universities, non-profits, and reporters of accredited news organizations – from progressive to conservative and everyone in between.
  • The organization has partnered with best-in-class technology providers, researchers, and leading academic labs to create a useful, easy to use, and highly accurate tool.
  • TrueMedia.org’s technology has the ability to analyze suspicious media and identify deepfakes over 90% of the time across audio, images, and videos.
  • “Generative AI has made it harder for experts like journalists, academics, researchers and misinformation specialists to recognize real content from fakes.

Databricks Launches DBRX, A New Standard for Efficient Open Source Models

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onsdag, mars 27, 2024
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced the launch of DBRX, a general purpose large language model (LLM) that outperforms all established open source models on standard benchmarks. DBRX democratizes the training and tuning of custom, high-performing LLMs for every enterprise so they no longer need to rely on a small handful of closed models. Available today, DBRX enables organizations around the world to cost-effectively build, train, and serve their own custom LLMs.

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  • "We're excited about DBRX for three key reasons: first, it beats open source models on state-of-the-art industry benchmarks.
  • Second, it beats GPT-3.5 on most benchmarks, which should accelerate the trend we're seeing across our customer base as organizations replace proprietary models with open source models.
  • DBRX sets a new standard for open source models, enabling customizable and transparent generative AI for all enterprises.
  • A recent survey from Andreessen Horowitz found that nearly 60 percent of AI leaders are interested in increasing open source usage or switching when fine-tuned open source models roughly match performance of closed source models.

Databricks Launches DBRX, A New Standard for Efficient Open Source Models

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onsdag, mars 27, 2024
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced the launch of DBRX, a general purpose large language model (LLM) that outperforms all established open source models on standard benchmarks. DBRX democratizes the training and tuning of custom, high-performing LLMs for every enterprise so they no longer need to rely on a small handful of closed models. Available today, DBRX enables organizations around the world to cost-effectively build, train, and serve their own custom LLMs.

Key Points: 
  • "We're excited about DBRX for three key reasons: first, it beats open source models on state-of-the-art industry benchmarks.
  • Second, it beats GPT-3.5 on most benchmarks, which should accelerate the trend we're seeing across our customer base as organizations replace proprietary models with open source models.
  • DBRX sets a new standard for open source models, enabling customizable and transparent generative AI for all enterprises.
  • A recent survey from Andreessen Horowitz found that nearly 60 percent of AI leaders are interested in increasing open source usage or switching when fine-tuned open source models roughly match performance of closed source models.

Allen Institute joins the Weill Neurohub

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onsdag, mars 6, 2024
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SEATTLE, March 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Allen Institute has officially become the newest member of the Weill Neurohub, a collaborative research network advancing treatments for neurological diseases. 

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  • SEATTLE, March 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Allen Institute has officially become the newest member of the Weill Neurohub , a collaborative research network advancing treatments for neurological diseases.
  • Founded in 2003 by philanthropist Paul G. Allen, the Allen Institute focuses on big questions in biology through a team-based, open science approach, and currently has moonshot projects in neuroscience, cell biology, and immunology institutes.
  • "The expansion of the Weill Neurohub and our formal partnership with the Allen Institute represents a powerful joining of forces in neuroscience," said Stephen Hauser, M.D., the Robert A. Fishman Distinguished Professor of Neurology at UCSF and director of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences.
  • These collaborative sessions are intended to spark new joint projects and residencies, focusing on the scientific pillars of the Weill Neurohub.

AI2, The Allen Institute for AI, Today Releases the OLMo: A State-of-the-Art, Truly Open-Source LLM and Framework

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torsdag, februari 1, 2024
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Releasing the OLMo framework will provide the industry with an opportunity to understand what is going on inside AI models.

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  • Releasing the OLMo framework will provide the industry with an opportunity to understand what is going on inside AI models.
  • Today, The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has released OLMo 7B, a truly open-source, state-of-the-art large language model released alongside the pre-training data and training code, something no open models of this scale offer today.
  • This empowers researchers and developers to use the best and open models to advance the science of language models collectively.
  • “We’re excited to be collaborating with the Allen Institute for AI on the release of their OLMo open-source model and framework.

Norm Ai Emerges From Stealth With $11.1 Million, Delivering Regulatory Generative AI to Chief Compliance Officers

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tisdag, januari 23, 2024
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NEW YORK, Jan. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On a mission to automate regulatory compliance, Norm Ai has built the first Regulatory AI Agent platform and is now serving Chief Compliance Officers at companies spanning from the Fortune 100 to small businesses.

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  • NEW YORK, Jan. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On a mission to automate regulatory compliance, Norm Ai has built the first Regulatory AI Agent platform and is now serving Chief Compliance Officers at companies spanning from the Fortune 100 to small businesses.
  • Norm Ai is solving this regulatory "sludge" problem by converting regulations into AI agents that can make autonomous compliance determinations.
  • This enables compliance teams to delegate tasks to Regulatory AI via high-level instructions, while at the same time validating the resulting work product at any level of granularity.
  • Norm Ai regularly convenes industry experts to push the frontier of Regulatory AI.