Experts say Chinese investors would be wary of backing AI startups building foundation models; PitchBook: in Q1, AI/ML VC funding in China fell 30% YoY to $1.2B
Investors believe practical AI applications will fuel the next wave of growth, with startups building on top of DeepSeek's foundation, rapidly accelerating AI adoption throughout Chinese society. — ...
A look at the internal chaos behind Apple's Siri failure, in part due to poor leadership, with John Giannandrea's AI/ML group dubbed “AIMLess” internally
Last June, at Apple's annual developers conference, the company offered a dazzling demonstration of how artificial intelligence …
Apple unveils Apple Intelligence for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, with text and image generation across apps, cross-app task orchestration, App Intents, and more
Apple soon will be taking a huge bite … Aman Gupta / Livemint : Is Apple Intelligence coming to your iPhone, iPad or Mac? Check full list of compatible devices Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac : There's an ...
Slack confirms it is training some of its AI-powered features, but not its generative AI tool, on user content and uploads, with all users opted-in by default
https://slack.com/... What a time to be alive in IT. 🤦♂️ JP Mens / @jpmens@mastodon.social : “Our guiding principle as we build this product is that the privacy and security of Customer Data is sac...
Sources: many people inside Apple do not believe its own AI/ML team can deliver on generative AI, and worry that the company will only use that team's output
Speaking of Mark Gurman, he has an interesting bit about Apple's AI efforts in his latest Power On column:
Comprehensive.io: average salaries for senior engineers who specialize in AI and ML are 12% higher than for those who do not; AI-related salaries are up 4% YoY
That doesn't mean tech sn't a maturing sector, and that the halcyon days of $600k packages to 20-somethings aren't over, because they mostly are. … Tweets: Kyle Russell / @kylebrussell : AI related sa...
Nasscom report: India is facing an AI/ML and data science talent crunch as unfilled job roles grow, despite having the second largest talent pool after the US
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg : Tweets: @saritharai Tweets: Saritha Rai / @saritharai : AI Talent wars in the ChatGPT era Data science and machine learning professionals are being lured with 2X salaries an...
NYC-based Pinecone Systems, which offers vector data storage for LLMs, raised a $100M Series B led by a16z at a $750M valuation, up from $168M in February 2022
Today, we are super excited to be partnering with Pinecone team … Guido Appenzeller : Super excited to announce our investment in Pinecone. Vector DB's are becoming a a pivotal building block as the ...
JPMorgan: 53% of institutional traders predict AI/ML will be the most influential tech for trading in the next three years; 72% have no plans to trade crypto
A look at Google Research spinout Osmo, which has raised $60M led by Lux Capital and GV to use AI to create aroma molecules for perfumes, shampoos, and more
Google Research spinout Osmo wants to find substitutes for hard-to-source aromas. The tech could inspire new perfumes—and help combat mosquito-borne diseases. Tweets: @wolfejosh , @wolfejosh , and @w...