[News] The UK government will fund AI training for small and medium-sized businesses
The UK Government has announced it has 6.4M available to fund small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) looking to train their workforce on AI technologies. SMEs can apply until May 31st. Successful applicants will receive an up to 50% reimbursement from their AI training investment.
https://dataphoenix.info/the-uk-government-will-fund-ai-training-for-small-and-medium-sized-businesses/

⚡️ DataPhoenix presented the new issue of the digest!

Latest AI News - Webinar "Training an Expert Finance LLM", Customizing Large Language Models, Efficiently Finetune Llama 3 with PyTorch FSDP and Q-Lora, Improving Diffusion Models for Authentic Virtual Try-on in the Wild, StoryDiffusion, Invisible Stitch, and more.

👉 https://dataphoenix.info/data-phoenix-digest-issue-8-2024/

[News] Codestral is Mistral AI's first model for code-generation tasks.
Mistral AI recently launched Codestral, a 22B-parameter model focused at helping developers with code-generation tasks, and shown to outperform models with more significant system requirements, including CodeLlama 70B, Llama 3 70B, and DeepSeek Coder 33B.

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[News] ElevenLabs launched a text-to-sound effects AI audio model.
ElevenLabs has launched a groundbreaking new Text to Sound Effects feature that leverages AI to allow users to generate a wide variety of audio content like sound effects, instrumental tracks, and character voices simply from text prompts.

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[News] Leading voice cloning tools are alarmingly easy to manipulate to produce election disinformation.

An alarming new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate reveals how leading AI voice cloning tools can be easily manipulated to generate disinformation mimicking political leaders' voices, posing a severe threat to the integrity of the many upcoming elections worldwide in 2024.

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📢 We are live and starting Data Phoenix webinar "Training an Expert Finance LLM" with Mark Kim-Huang (Co-founder and Chief Architect at Gradient).

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[News] Sakana AI claims it is working towards automating the scientific research process
Sakana AI has developed "The AI Scientist," a groundbreaking system that aims to automate the scientific research process in machine learning, from idea generation to paper writing and peer review, thus exploring how AI can impact the scientific progress.
https://dataphoenix.info/sakana-ai-claims-it-is-working-towards-automating-the-scientific-research-process/

𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘅 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿! 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗦𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗳𝗹𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱.

Building a cost-efficient, single source of truth data infrastructure solution can be difficult, but this is exactly what Spectrio achieved by migrating to managed ClickHouse, along with drastically cutting costs.

The webinar will cover:
- An introduction to ClickHouse and its capabilities
- Ways to handle common migration challenges
- Migration results and wins

Tune in on August 22 at 9:00 am PDT to learn how managed ClickHouse can enhance your own analytics capabilities!

𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘄 -> https://go.dataphoenix.info/ojAjJZ

[News] Condé Nast has entered a multi-year partnership with OpenAI
OpenAI has announced a licensing agreement with Condé Nast to display content on its products, marking a collaborative approach to address content monetization challenges in the era of generative AI, in contrast to other publishers who have pursued legal action against OpenAI.
https://dataphoenix.info/conde-nast-has-entered-a-multi-year-partnership-with-openai/

[News] Skyfire has launched a first-of-its-kind payment network for AI agents
Skyfire Systems Inc., founded by former Ripple executives, has raised $8.5 million to develop infrastructure enabling AI agents to make autonomous payments, focusing on secure wallet access, verified identity services, and an open payment protocol.
https://dataphoenix.info/skyfire-has-launched-a-first-of-its-kind-payment-network-for-ai-agents-2/

[News] Ideogram 2.0 is the latest text-to-image model to boast its superior text rendering capability
Ideogram has launched Ideogram 2.0, a cutting-edge text-to-image AI model with superior capabilities in realistic image generation and typography, alongside new offerings including an iOS app, API access, and a searchable database of over 1 billion community-generated images.
https://dataphoenix.info/ideogram-2-0-is-the-latest-text-to-image-model-to-boast-its-superior-text-rendering-capability/

[News] NVIDIA showcased its pruning and distillation techniques with Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B
NVIDIA researchers have developed a breakthrough technique combining structured weight pruning and knowledge distillation to create smaller, more efficient language models, which offer improved performance and significant compute savings while remaining competitive with larger models.
https://dataphoenix.info/nvidia-showcased-its-pruning-and-distillation-techniques-with-llama-3-1-minitron-4b/

[News] Opkey raised $47M to revolutionize ERP testing with AI
AI-powered software testing company Opkey has secured $47 million in funding to enhance and expand its technology that uses artificial intelligence to streamline and improve the risky process of updating crucial business software systems.
https://dataphoenix.info/opkey-raised-47m-to-revolutionize-erp-testing-with-ai/

[News] Dropbox has acquired the AI-powered calendar assistant Reclaim.ai
Reclaim.ai, an intelligent scheduling assistant that optimizes users' calendars by automatically managing time blocks for activities and facilitating smart scheduling of recurring meetings, announced its plans to continue developing its product after being acquired by Dropbox.
https://dataphoenix.info/dropbox-has-acquired-the-ai-powered-calendar-assistant-reclaim-ai/

[News] BeyondMath secured $8.5 million for the development of its digital wind tunnel
BeyondMath's digital wind tunnel uses machine learning to provide near real-time simulations of complex aerodynamics, significantly accelerating the engineering process and cutting costs. The company boasts F1 as an early adopter and recently raised an $8.5M seed round led by UP.Partners.
https://dataphoenix.info/beyondmath-secured-8-5-million-for-the-development-of-its-digital-wind-tunnel/

[News] Harmonyze secured $2M to transform franchise operations with AI
AI startup Harmonyze has secured over $2 million in pre-seed funding to expand its AI-powered platform that automates and streamlines franchise operations, potentially transforming the $5 trillion global franchise market by increasing efficiency and profitability.
https://dataphoenix.info/harmonyze-secured-2m-to-transform-franchise-operations-with-ai/

[News] Piramidal raised $6M to build the world's first human brainwaves foundation model
Piramidal, a healthcare AI startup, is developing a groundbreaking foundation model for EEG data that will unlock a series of use cases in medical settings, from assisting in diagnosing neurological conditions to supporting the discovery of biomarkers for drug and treatment development.
https://dataphoenix.info/piramidal-raised-6m-to-build-the-worlds-first-human-brainwaves-foundation-model/

[News] With its latest update, Redis aims to solidify its position as a vector database for AI use cases
Redis has unveiled a suite of AI-focused products, including Redis for AI, Redis Copilot, and enhanced vector database capabilities in Redis 8, aimed at simplifying and accelerating the development and deployment of GenAI applications.
https://dataphoenix.info/with-its-latest-update-redis-aims-to-solidify-its-position-as-a-vector-database-for-ai-use-cases/

[News] Meta and Spotify exposed their view on the detrimental effect of EU regulation on open-source AI
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Spotify CEO Daniel Ek authored a joint statement urging the European Union to embrace open-source AI and simplify its regulatory landscape to avoid falling behind in AI innovation and competitiveness.
https://dataphoenix.info/meta-and-spotify-exposed-their-view-on-the-detrimental-effect-of-eu-regulation-on-open-source-ai/

[News] Meshy has launched Meshy-4, a model with improved 3D-generation capabilities
Meshy has launched Meshy-4, a major update to their AI-powered 3D model generation platform. Meshy-4 features improved geometry, a new Text to 3D workflow, a retry feature, and model selection options, and aims to enhance the quality and usability of AI-generated 3D assets.
https://dataphoenix.info/meshy-has-launched-meshy-4-a-model-with-improved-3d-generation-capabilities/

[News] The Weeknd teased an upcoming concert live stream using AI-generated visuals
The Weeknd has released an AI-generated concert teaser trailer, directed by visual artist YZA Voku and created using multiple AI tools, showcasing the artist's embrace of generative AI technology in music promotion despite ongoing controversies surrounding AI's use of copyrighted material.
https://dataphoenix.info/the-weeknd-teased-an-upcoming-concert-live-stream-using-ai-generated-visuals/