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Hippocratic AI Raises $53 Million Series A at a $500 Million Valuation

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Monday, March 18, 2024

PALO ALTO, Calif., March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hippocratic AI, the company building the first safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare, today announced the close of a $53 million Series A funding round at a $500 million valuation, bringing total funding to $120 million.

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  • PALO ALTO, Calif., March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hippocratic AI, the company building the first safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare, today announced the close of a $53 million Series A funding round at a $500 million valuation, bringing total funding to $120 million.
  • “Premji Invest supports the Azim Premji Foundation’s non-profit activities in perpetuity by investing in companies that can create long-term societal value.
  • “Hippocratic AI has grown rapidly due to sound execution and strategy, while prioritizing safety.
  • The results of these studies are presented in a paper released today called Polaris: A Safety-focused LLM Constellation Architecture for Healthcare.

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

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

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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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

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.

HiddenLayer Adds AI Detection & Response for Generative AI

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

AUSTIN, Texas, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- HiddenLayer, the leading security provider for artificial intelligence (AI) models and assets, today announced the launch of its latest product: AI Detection & Response for Generative AI. The new capability comes as part of HiddenLayer's award-winning platform, formerly known as MLDR, extending HiddenLayer's end-to-end security to organizations deploying LLM-based applications.

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  • AUSTIN, Texas, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- HiddenLayer , the leading security provider for artificial intelligence (AI) models and assets, today announced the launch of its latest product: AI Detection & Response for Generative AI.
  • HiddenLayer's AI Detection & Response for Generative AI provides a set of security controls that enable real-time monitoring, detection, and response to threats specific to LLMs.
  • "HiddenLayer's AI Detection & Response allows organizations to responsibly navigate the risks associated with Generative AI, facilitating safe adoption of AI across industries," said Chris "Tito" Sestito, Co-Founder and CEO of HiddenLayer.
  • HiddenLayer's AI Detection & Response fortifies organizations' generative AI deployments against unauthorized access, infiltration attempts, and intellectual property theft - all while delivering real-time protection.

Symmetry Systems Launches Data+AI Security Product line for Enterprise Gen AI including Microsoft Copilot

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Thursday, March 14, 2024

SAN MATEO, Calif., March 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Symmetry Systems, a modern data+AI security company, today announced the launch of Symmetry for Enterprise Gen AI product line, leveraging a new, industry-leading Gen AI inventory feature, aimed at ensuring the safe adoption of Gen AI technologies, particularly Microsoft Copilot within modern organizations. Together, this product line helps organizations prepare their data estate to be indexed securely by AI agents like Copilot. It offers businesses a holistic view of their data exposure through AI agents and provides a one-stop data+AI security solution for not only Copilot deployments, but a wide array of Gen AI technologies.

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  • SAN MATEO, Calif., March 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Symmetry Systems , a modern data+AI security company, today announced the launch of Symmetry for Enterprise Gen AI product line, leveraging a new, industry-leading Gen AI inventory feature, aimed at ensuring the safe adoption of Gen AI technologies, particularly Microsoft Copilot within modern organizations.
  • Together, this product line helps organizations prepare their data estate to be indexed securely by AI agents like Copilot.
  • It offers businesses a holistic view of their data exposure through AI agents and provides a one-stop data+AI security solution for not only Copilot deployments, but a wide array of Gen AI technologies.
  • To see Symmetry's Data+AI Security Product line for Enterprise Gen AI in action, request your own copilot readiness assessment to get started.

WISeKey Announces Appointment of Jonathan LLamas as VP Decentralized Strategy

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Friday, March 8, 2024

Geneva, Switzerland, March 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WISeKey International Holding Ltd. (“WISeKey” or “Company”) (SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a global leader in cybersecurity, digital identity, and Internet of Things (IoT) innovations, operating as a holding company, today announced the appointment of Jonathan LLamas as VP Decentralized Strategy, effective March 6, 2024.

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  • Geneva, Switzerland, March 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WISeKey International Holding Ltd. (“WISeKey” or “Company”) (SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a global leader in cybersecurity, digital identity, and Internet of Things (IoT) innovations, operating as a holding company, today announced the appointment of Jonathan LLamas as VP Decentralized Strategy, effective March 6, 2024.
  • Mr. LLamas joins the team to lead the Company’s ambitions towards its strategic Web 3.0 transition.
  • Mr. LLamas, a serial blockchain entrepreneur and topic expert lecturer at top European Universities, brings nearly two decades of strategic and entrepreneurial experience to WISeKey.
  • Carlos Moreira, Founder and CEO of WISeKey, commented, "I warmly welcome Jonathan to the WISeKey team, where he will be pivotal in advancing our Web 3.0 decentralization strategy.

H2O.ai Releases New Language Model H2O-Danube-1.8B for Mobile

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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Despite being trained on significantly less data than comparable models, benchmark results show H2O-Danube-1.8B achieves highly competitive performance across a wide range of natural language tasks.

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  • Despite being trained on significantly less data than comparable models, benchmark results show H2O-Danube-1.8B achieves highly competitive performance across a wide range of natural language tasks.
  • "We are excited to release H2O-Danube-1.8B as a portable LLM on small devices like your smartphone, something that Anthropic is not offering today.
  • Building on the base H2O-Danube-1.8B model, the chat version was tuned using supervised learning on dialog datasets followed by reinforcement learning using human preferences.
  • H2O.ai will be releasing additional tools to simplify using the models in applications, as well as exploring potential future model scaling.

HONOR Debuts a New AI-empowered All-scenario Strategy at MWC 2024

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Sunday, February 25, 2024

LONDON, Feb. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Global technology brand HONOR today revealed its new all-scenario strategy by introducing AI-empowered cross OS experiences and intent based user interface, plus a suite of smart devices with global partners. During its keynote, HONOR not only announced the global launch of the premium flagship HONOR Magic6 Pro, but also its latest AIPC, the HONOR MagicBook Pro 16, all of which come equipped with HONOR's platform-level AI to deliver human-centric innovations.

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  • The latest addition to the prestigious HONOR Magic Series flagship lineup, the HONOR Magic6 Pro boasts advancements in photography, display, performance, and AI-powered user experiences.
  • Enriched by Magic Capsule and Magic Portal, the HONOR Magic6 Pro provides users with a more personalised, intuitive experience.
  • Taking inspiration from the disruptive electric vehicle (EV) industry, HONOR is bringing the all-new HONOR Second-generation Silicon-carbon Battery with HONOR E1, a battery management chipset for energy efficiency enhancement, to the HONOR Magic6 Pro.
  • Taking the all-scenario experience to a more compact device, HONOR has also released its newest tablet, the HONOR Pad 9.

Integrit Unveils 'Stella': Pioneering AI Hardware Generating Dynamic Interactions with LLMs

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

The innovative AI hardware 'Stella' integrates OpenAI's 'GPT-4' and Meta's 'LLaMa' among other LLMs, along with on-device AI vision technology.

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  • The innovative AI hardware 'Stella' integrates OpenAI's 'GPT-4' and Meta's 'LLaMa' among other LLMs, along with on-device AI vision technology.
  • Stella is a dedicated hardware device for AI conversation search using LLMs.
  • Stella, the first generative AI hardware to be experimentally unveiled at a major department store in Korea, introduces a novel method to enhance the accuracy of conventional conversational AI search.
  • The innovative AI hardware Stella provides a new form of interface that communicates by moving according to the display provided by Virtual Human.

What is CHAI AI's Chaiverse?

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Saturday, February 17, 2024

PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A lot of Chai users have been asking the question, "What is Chaiverse?" a feature currently obscurely advertised by the Chai developers. With a recent valuation of $450M, the Chai AI team has been pouring their funding into the development of Chaiverse, with the aim of connecting world-class Large Language Model (LLM) developers directly to millions of Chat AI consumers, offering each user a tailor-made combination of LLMs. This article provides a deep dive into the Chaiverse mechanism, how it works, and its implications for users.

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  • Unlike other Generative AI products, which typically offer models developed in-house, Chai AI has recently introduced their model developer platform, Chaiverse .
  • Chai AI's research team purport to be lazer-focussed on exploring what makes each Large Language Model (LLM) unique and to improve person-to-LLM recommendations.
  • After the model is operational, users of the Chai App can engage with it through arena mode, providing immediate numerical and textual feedback to developers.
  • A: Yes, the Chai App primarily features interactions with AI-driven bots, trained to mimic human-like conversations and behaviors.